Meg Ward

Meg Ward

REVIEW: Care

Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the better part of a decade, I worked in care homes. Until this show, I had never seen anything which portrays the experience so accurately, and with such depth of emotion. So often the experience of care work is hidden, an experience we hope we never have to go through. Care homes are places out of sight and mind, until there’s no choice but to cross the threshold. Care is an unflinching, raw look at that world, and what it is like for all sides of the journey; resident, carer, child, grandchild.

REVIEW: This Grief Thing 

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Grief Thing isn’t a shop. Not really. It’s a space to really sit with our grief. Stepping into This Grief Thing, you might feel unsure about what you are walking into. A shop, about grief? The…

REVIEW: The Grim

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Grim is a three person play performed with minimal set dressing and in two thirty-minute halves with an interval between. It tells the story of two undertakers, one a believer of the supernatural and the other a sceptic who teases his colleague for his superstitions.

REVIEW: The Warp and the Weft

Reading Time: 2 minutesMovement, music, memory and a whole lot of fabric! The Warp and the Weft deftly weaves together different stories about fabric into a performance that is thought-provoking and poignant. This show will make you consider the clothes…