I will be one of the playwrights for the Colchester-based company Theatre Témoin project with the Mercury Theatre this first quarter of 2021.

NHS Yarns is “a collaborative project bringing artists and frontline first responders together to create rich, nuanced, and revelatory pieces of storytelling in partnership with The Mercury Theatre.” When I read their job posting last October, I hurriedly submitted my application as the project was closer to what I was currently working on with Kanlungan Filipino Consortium, Migrants Rights Network, and affiliated migrant organisations: research on the experience of Filipino and other migrant workers working for the NHS.

Ailin Connant, Theatre Témoin’s Artistic Director, interviewed me last December, and they released the results within two weeks.

Since December, I have been reading about Theatre Témoin’s previous works and their aesthetics as a theatre company. One thing that excites me, though, is that Theatre Témoin’s themes (and processes!) of their past works were almost the same as my practice back in the Philippines.

I am looking forward to the exciting theatre pieces that will emerge from this engagement and to learning something new from Theatre Témoin.

Keep it coming, 2021!