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Billy Barrett

@billyjackbarrett

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director / writer
co AD @breach_theatre
current: Resident Director @nationaltheatre Studio
next up: Burning Down the House @schwarzmancentre

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Next show!
Burning Down the House
A Breach Production co-commissioned by the Schwarzman Centre, supported by Ibsen Scope
Written by Ellice Stevens & me
Directed by me
Inspired by the research of Kirsten Shepherd
Jacoba Williams as LAURA
Further cast & team TBA

Who has the right to tell which stories?
Where’s the line between inspiration and exploitation?
Does any of that matter ... if the story’s good?

Artwork design - Rebecca Pitt / Photography - Richard Lakos / Costume - Moa Johansson by @billyjackbarrett

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2 months ago

We Did Not Consent - now streaming on Guardian documentaries.
Proud to have co-written this with @ellicestevens and helped develop it with director @dorothyallenpickard - working closely with our three anonymous contributors 🐰🦓🌾

Have been spending some time at the Undercover Policing Inquiry this month and am so full of admiration for those recounting their intimate and personal experiences yet again to hold the police accountable for their appalling behaviour over the past few decades.

You can watch the full film at www.theguardian.com/we-did-not-consent

Director @dorothyallenpickard
Lead contributors @policespiesoutoflives_
Cast @bekahhakeb & Craig Hamilton
Writers @billyjackbarrett & @ellicestevens
Producer @rosaofficiale
Exec producers @lindsay_poulton @jessgorm @becsrai
DOPs @mrjackwells @jhaldon
Costume design @mathew.stevenson.wright
Production design @I_am_dave_the_goldfish
Editor @new_solemns
Colour @m.y.l.e.s
Sound @olliedrummond @ro_oh_no
Music @jo_paterson
Intimacy Coordinator @dthackeray
Researcher @graceshelleyy
Special thanks to @sally.cowling @batterseaartscentre
Made with @breach_theatre @guardian @girlsinfilm_gif @policespiesoutoflives_ by @billyjackbarrett

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2 years ago

Just when I managed to get the tunes out of my head ... our documentary musical about Section 28, After the Act, is coming back - this time to the Royal Court. 21st May - 14th June. Tell your friends ! 📢 taken in The Royal Court Theatre by @billyjackbarrett

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💘 by @billyjackbarrett

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2 months ago

💍 Unhinged & in bliss

📸 @maisiecousins taken in St Leonards on Sea by @billyjackbarrett

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3 months ago

Get ready with me for my same sex marital ceremony
💘 @alistairhallyes
📸 @maisiecousins by @billyjackbarrett

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3 months ago

Got a new job! I’ll be here (or on a train) til December as Resident Director.
Come & say hello if you’re in the building 👋 taken in National Theatre Studio by @billyjackbarrett

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4 months ago

🐟 taken in Marseille, France by @billyjackbarrett

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4 months ago

We’re open! It’s been a dream to work at @homeliveart for the last 6 months as Coordinator of @hastingsqueerhistory’s brilliant exhibition Lemons, Laws & Secret Doors at @hastings_museum.
10 community curators uncovering & responding to local LGBT+ heritage through artworks, oral histories, archive photos & objects.
Plus an amazing specially commissioned piece by @sissysigns 🪧
On until end of August with a load of exciting wraparound events - and it’s free admission 🍋
📸- @alice_denny by @billyjackbarrett

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❄️ by @billyjackbarrett

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9 months ago

Still a few spots left on my weekend devising intensive at @theatre503 !
For me writing and directing have always been intertwined, and sitting at a laptop typing out a script is only a small part of the making of a show.
I was so pleased to be asked to run this for a new writing theatre, as so often in the UK the word “devising” sets off alarm bells for buildings as inherently risky, incoherent, or overly abstract, and totally separate from the serious literary business of real plays.
In fact I think some of the best written and most powerful plays have come out of processes that involve some degree of collaborative and practical “making”, with the text developing throughout the process.
We’re not going to be acting like a shoal of fish or lifting each other (I could try but I would probably drop you). We ARE going to be exploring strategies for making new work through games, exercises, improvisation and even, yes, putting pen to paper.
For people who think of themselves as writers, directors, performers, or none of the above.
(Sadly I don’t have a monochrome picture of myself waving my hands around in a rehearsal room so instead please enjoy this picture of me in tech @royalcourttheatre with the emotional support Boss Lady mug) by @billyjackbarrett

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🌞 by @billyjackbarrett

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