Liz Mytton on writing & theatre making

Liz Mytton is a coach and trainer, playwright, poet and theatre-maker.   She’s fascinated by history, including that of her own family, so Jamaica features significantly in her work – ‘Red Snapper’, about Jamaican families living under the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis; ‘Back Home’, about homophobia, loneliness and leaving Jamaica; and  ‘Across the Water’, the retelling of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey’s meeting with the KKK.

She has provided wordsmith services to the Belgrade theatre’s young company production of ‘Rise’ and their National Theatre Connections collaboration for ‘Like There’s No Tomorrow’, worked with Talking Birds Theatre on several projects on location in Coventry as well as writing poetry for the opening ceremony of Coventry’s City of Culture celebration.    Other works include ‘Southside Stories’, ‘Shame Shanties’ and most recently the co-created ‘Motherhood in a Climate Crisis.’

This conversation was recorded in May 2022, so some of the references are a little old.  It’s pretty much unedited & contain language, opinions or views that solely reflect the speaker.  

My next guest in this series of storytelling interviews is Paul Graham Raven, a writer & critical futures researcher, whose research is concerned with how the stories we tell about times yet to come, shape the lives we end up living.