In the last few years, I’ve learned that playwriting is most productive when others join you in the process. On those occasions, huge benefits can result. New voices and perspectives come into effect. Cherished approaches get subtly challenged. Potential lines of new development come into view. Alternative perspectives surface. Perhaps most of all, there isContinue reading “My new play about Cicely Saunders: a pivotal moment”
Category Archives: End of life care
New textbook on the social aspects of care at the end of life: a surprise project
In the autumn of 2022 I was a couple of years beyond the institutional world of full-time academic employment. I’d been putting my efforts into new forms of writing, such as reflective biographical pieces, garden musings, and short stories. I’d also written a play which had been well received at the Edinburgh Fringe that summerContinue reading “New textbook on the social aspects of care at the end of life: a surprise project”
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