Sophie Partridge's Blog
Sophie Partridge has performed in several productions with Graeae Theatre Company, including the award-winning Peeling and Flower Girls. She has worked with David Glass Ensemble, Theatre Resource and Theatre Workshop. She has a French Canadian Mum, an 82 year-old Dad, two sisters, one brother, various uncles, aunts and cousins, great friends, good PAs and several virtual dogs. What more does a Girl need?!
10 October 2011
Public bodies, disability on display...
On 15 September I was asked by the Royal College of Surgeons to speak about `public bodies, disability on display’. As someone with a very visible impairment, I do feel I’m always on...Comments: 7
3 August 2011
Big Lounge versus Big Society?
Yesterday, having had a Care Manager / Social Worker imagine I can walk because she "didn’t want to wrongly assume I couldn’t", I’m really not in the mood to do the ConDems any...Comments: 6
7 March 2011
Sophie Partridge goes workshopping at the Huddleston Centre, Hackney
Sun is out tho’ still not much warmer than when I wrote my last Blog’! Weekly workshops at the Huddleston Centre, Hackney with a group of young learning disabled peeps, began beginning of...Comments: 5
19 January 2011
Sophie Partridge gets through the January Bluze...
So here I sit, snug in my flat. A bluish sky through the window (above newly installed traffic lights!) while the world in various corners, suffers climate change’. Me, I’ve already had a...Comments: 7
1 November 2010
Sophie Partridge asks Who's Spasticus?!
Crikey it’s all been happening; what with Jenny Sealey’s cast pulling off a coup with Graeae’s Reasons To Be Cheerful. (see review in The Stage The show gives a chance for some true...Comments: 8
12 October 2010
Sophie Partridge gets ready to get her kit off for this years' DaDaFest in Liverpool
I’m up to Glove Peel, in Jo Weldon’s Burlesque Handbook. The page is marked with a Sainsbury’s voucher for £3 off. Not very Glam’ but hopefully I will be! Jo from...Comments: 1
19 August 2010
Sophie Partridge goes in search of pirates in Leyton and ends up running away with the circus
Ah, that difficult second blog; expectations to live up to, reputation to safe-guard, the angst, dead-lines.. Or not as the case may be! Last week was quite momentous, not least because it was a...Comments: 4
15 July 2010
Sophie Partridge takes a look at some images from the Royal College of Physicians' Museum collection
Been a busy rabbit lately. Last Tuesday, attended the Royal College of Physicians’ Rethinking Disability Project Focus Group at Shape. The aim of it was to look at some of the medical...Comments: 4