As we wrap up Heads Up Festival on Day 4, we find Michelle Dee between worlds, simultaneously in the past, the present and the future. Ivo Theatre’s The Land’s Heart is Greater Than Its Map speaks on many levels. It is a film/installation located in a fictional city called Yaboos while represented on screen by […]
Michelle Dee is in Hull Minster on Day 3, rocking out to Black Sabbath, ‘storm coming you better hide’; a fitting choice seeing as she is here to see The Paper Cinema’s Macbeth. A stage and screen has been set up in the nave, the stage is strewn with lamps, light boxes instruments and the […]
We catch up with Michelle Dee sitting very still in a seat in the library, she is in something of a daze and trying to process all that she has just witnessed. Now Is The Time To Say Nothing, such a provocative and accusatory title for an incredible project conducted over five years, by a […]
At the end of day two of Heads Up Festival, we find Michelle Dee back at Kardomah 94 asking festival goers, ‘Have you any clue what it will be?’ Commissioned by Einkofi and debuting at Heads Up, Is He On the Line? is a new music theatre piece created by British visual artist Jez Dolan […]
Michelle Dee visits Race Cards by artist Selina Thompson, the highly visual work about identity politics currently housed in Hull Central Library. Pinned on the walls are a 1000 handwritten numbered cards. Each card contains a question written by Selina over 24 hours, in three sittings across one weekend in Edinburgh. The questions range from […]
by Michelle Dee Photo by Anete Sooda Dave Lee’s writing debut for the stage is a delightful satire on English village life with a healthy sprinkling of intrigue and murder. ‘More mulch than murder,’ as someone later said. The Orchidian is a verbose monologue told in direct address with considerable skill and devilish charm by […]
And we have lift off! Heads Up Festival’s 12th season sets out on a four day mission to bring joy, excitement, pose questions and enthral audiences once more. Michelle Dee settles in her comfy seat at the front, pint of local ale in hand, to watch the highly anticipated premiere of Dean Wilson: East Coast […]
The 12th Heads Up Festival is now just over one week away. Heads Up Festival’s 12th season will take place from March 27-30 at various venues, including Hull Minster, Hull Central Library and Kardomah94, Heads Up coincides with IETM Hull, which will see delegates from the informal theatre and performance network heading to the city from […]
With little over a week until the 12th Heads Up Festival, producer Dave Windass shares what’s on his mind. My advice to wannabe producers, event organisers and promoters is fairly consistent: “Never organise anything, ever.” For, as much fun as pulling events together might look when you attend, say, four days of theatre, performance and […]
Caroline Williams and Reem Karssli’s Now Is The Time To Say Nothing is an interactive video installation exploring the role of screens in observing global conflict that will take place at Heads Up Festival at various times at Hull Central Library from March 28-30. The show is a provocation against armchair passivity. Artist Caroline Williams said: “The […]