Ed Rapley

Performer, Director, Useful Person To Know

Category: Blog

  • Why am I like this?

    I am topless and I have smeared myself with bolognese, it’s the christmas party.

  • The Face Game

    The Face Game

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    This piece will soon be old enough to vote and I last performed it over 15 years ago. So I was pleasantly surprised to get an email from Harun Morrison asking about it. It got me thinking about the piece, the time it was made in and who I was back then. Here we are…

  • Circus City 2025 Reflections

    Attending the launch of the Circus City programme was a joyous moment, the collection of work that the team had curated felt like a profoundly hopeful expression of care, struggle and connection. So I got myself a festival pass in order to see as much of it as possible. Turns out the festival was even…

  • What’s all this about?

    I thought I would start blogging again. What on earth would motivate someone to do that in 2025? Hope.  What’s there to be hopeful about? I really don’t know but I think there is some interesting dignity to be found within baseless hope. I don’t need things to get better. I just need to keep…