It’s not easy (talking about) being green
Our friends at house theatre network asked us what we’re doing about the climate crisis. Here’s what our Alex, our Head of Creativity & Communications, had to say: How do you talk about the...
Read MoreReview: Learning To Fly
OFS reviewer and volunter usher Lucy saw Learning To Fly in September 2022. Originally, I wasn’t going to write a review. With my life descending into a black hole of appointments, assessments and errands,...
Read MoreWhy aren’t we doing a Christmas show, this year?
Since 2016, the Old Fire Station has produced Christmas shows for grown-ups. We identified a non-panto niche in the city’s arts offer, and with a lot of help from Arts Council England, we made...
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Why Meaningful Measurement is important
Read MoreWhat we learned at the 2021 Meaningful Measurement inquiry events
How to create ways of evaluating work that takes into account people’s stories and experiences, and shift the focus from the process of measuring, to the learning it gives
Read MoreThe journey to evaluation and storytelling in our every day
At the Old Fire Station (one of the organisations that founded the Marmalade core group), we spent many years struggling with evaluation. We found that conventional form filling, box-ticking and number counting didn’t always...
Read MoreReview: Fifteen Years Of Granite
OFS reviewer and volunteer usher Lucy saw Fifteen Years of Granite, July 2022. Saturday 16 July, 6.30pm, and I have snuck away from a party to usher (and review) 15 Years of Granite, a...
Read MoreReview: Cell Outs
OFS reviewer and volunteer usher Lucy saw Cell Outs, July 2022. Inside the theatre is creepy, but also quite spectacular. The stage represents a prison. There are cages full of items that look like...
Read MoreReview: Naughty
OFS reviewer and volunteer usher Lucy saw Naughty, July 2022. It is 6.30pm on another sweltering July day and the cool of the drama studio is soothing and refreshing. I don’t know what to...
Read MoreReview: And I’ll Blow Your House Down
OFS reviewer and volunteer usher Lucy saw And I’ll Blow Your House Down, July 2022. And I’ll Blow Your House Down is an honest, heartfelt and at-times hilarious play about family disability. It explores...
Read MoreReview: In The Weeds
OFS reviewer and volunteer usher Lucy saw In The Weeds, June 2022. Seen at the Old Fire Station on 8th June 2022, In The Weeds tells the chilling story of a Japanese scientist who...
Read MoreReview: Three Acres And A Cow
OFS reviewer and volunteer usher Lucy saw Three Acres And A Cow, May 2022. The 20th of May 2022. A sold out show at the Old Fire Station. 7pm. A couple minutes to spare and...
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