Projects
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Seeing with me dog
Seeing with my dog is a major work Roderick is now working on, It is a new dynamic verse play.
Ever wanted to know what a Guide Dog does? How it knows where to go? How it guides its partner across busy roads? And lots of other things?
Seeing with My Dog explores all these issues. And others, like a person’s change in perceived identity through sight loss. About training with a guide dog.
Seeing with my dog will be presented in Birmingham and Leamington in March 2026. There will be four actors, two of whom will be vision impaired. Although the play is serious in its themes, it is hilarious in its performance. For instance, the long suffering guide dog, Dixon, explains how his partner (the Protagonist) keeps getting left and right mixed up. Moreover, Dixon holds regular Zoom conferences with his guide dog companion. They share experiences like how their partners frequently forget to take treats, the nuisances of cars parked on pavements, how best to get onto a settee while distracting their partner, and the threat to their working lives of AI.
Arts Council support for Seeing With My Dog has recently been confirmed.
Want to know more? Just ask …
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Unravelling my parts
Special One-Off Preview: Friday 11 July, 19.30.
Unravelling My Parts is presented by DD Arts Birmingham working in collaboration with SHOUT– Queer Arts and Culture
Unravelling My Parts is a highly unusual and exciting theatre poetry performance. Roderick Dungate, Birmingham based, award-winning playwright and poet, brings together 24 miniature dramas which come together to create a moving, dramatic, funny, sometimes dark, single, satisfying performance, for three actors.
Roderick has spent most of his life campaigning on LGBTQ+ issues, one way or another. These miniature dramas are all created to bring his (and the actors’) gay insights to life, love, death and politics – and all the stuff in between.
Each one of the 24 miniatures is a perfectly formed drama lasting anything between 30 seconds and 15 minutes; sometimes they are monologues, sometimes songs, sometimes for a solo performer and sometimes for multi-performers.
Roderick Says:
‘In Unravelling My Parts, we aim to create a great mirror, in which audiences can join with us and gain fresh perspectives on the world around us. And in doing so perhaps each person may be changed a little bit, as will the mirror.’
This one-off preview of Unravelling My Parts will be presented as a script-in-hand performance as the team moves towards a fully staged performance later this year. Audience members’ thoughts, emotions, reactions will be valued as the work moves forward into its fully staged production. The performance is presented by DD Arts Birmingham, working in collaboration with Shout – Queer Arts and Culture.
Seating is limited; please book early. Unravelling My Parts incorporates adult themes.
‘As long as we danced the music played.
As long as the music played, we danced.’
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham. Spaces are limited, so book early.
Box Office: 0121 463 5858
Tickets: £5.40
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Magpie
Info coming soon