25 Thistle Corner My Books My Blog My Social Media Return to Main Site Contact Benefits of 25 Thistle Corner — All books are printed per order, eliminating wastage and warehouse usage! — All packaging is 100% recyclable AND biodegradable! — All orders come with plantable seeds to help nature to flourish! — All books are signed with personal messages! Poetry A collection in 4 categories: – Love and Romance –Fantasy and Intrigue –Melancholia – Dark 101 Poems Short Collections Find Out More A collection of love poems: 13 poems across 34 pages Eloping to isolated islands far away, hugging through winter’s cold and under spilling rain, these works indulge in the beauty of the soulmate love that all of us so crave and cherish. A collection of sorrowful poems: 13 poems across 50 pages With themes of loss, heartbreak, grief and depression, Lament provides the reader with the uncommon opportunity to share in, process and express feelings of sorrow and discomfort, to find a sense of catharsis and closure for the unspoken sadness of the day-to-day. Find Out More Own Your Copy A collection of fantasy poems: 13 poems across 50 pages From the acts of Shadowmen to the tranquillity of rainfall, the items depicted in these poems not only transport the reader away to worlds of mystery and intrigue but also invite them to reflect upon the magnificence of their own. Find Out More Own Your Copy Own Your Copy Find Out More Own Your Copy Novels The Award-Winning dystopian tale of the daughter who sought truth in her bleak world and found her father's deadly secret. With gruelling workhouses, bloodbath rituals, sea voyages, and wildbeast attacks. Find Out More Judges said: — "A story wrapped in bravery, truth, love, lies, and cowardice. — “I found myself really rooting for her in her search for reality. Excellent.” Own Your Copy WRITING IN PROGRESS Crazy cat lady, Norma Perkins, is abducted by an underground spy organisation. Her mission? Save the world from a mastermind criminal. How? — Cats! That's how!

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SHORTLISTED FOR A WRITING COMPETITION! It brings me so much joy to announce that my upcoming novel, The Fisherman's Daughter, has been shortlisted for The Book Challenge 2025, a new writing competition by Pen to Print! Pen to Print have been such a gem to discover! I've really enjoyed their creative writing, and poetry, courses, and The Book Challenge 2025 was the cherry on top! Being shortlisted means: I was one of 5 writers shortlisted out of over 90 who submitted their work! I'll be mentored once a month throughout 2025 by the wonderful Jacqueline Gabbitas! The Fisherman's Daughter will be published for you to read, regardless of whether I win at the next and final stage of the competition. The winner of the competition will be announced in July 2026, after the submission of the final manuscript! ABOUT THE NOVEL To one of four seaside refuges, Daleton, rife with myth. One story of the sea drives Josie into it: a mythical lily flower that will bring back her mother, but it is guarded by ominous shadowmen, blustering whales, and vicious merfolk. Convincing her father to sail her there before the winter harvest, father and daughter venture into unknown waters, leaving homely Daleton far behind. Find out more as I develop my novel, and share in my writing discoveries along the way by subscribing to Thistle Corner! TIPS FOR WRITERS If you're wanting to submit your own work to writing competitions, see this post for some preliminary tips!

In 2021, I introduced private analyses as a means of providing bespoke, detailed, and confidential feedback to clients on their live theatre performances. Though I release a limited quota of 2–3 public analyses every month, these are booked fast, making a private analysis the ideal choice if you want guaranteed priority and a more personalised experience. Key advantages include: The best way to request a private analysis is to contact me by email, including all the details of your performance in an official press release: contact@leejamesbroadwood.com. Unsure which option is right for you? Both analysis types are delivered with a personalised list of recommended support and resources tailored specifically to your performance, meaning you could opt for a more concise private analysis for a solid foundation, with the option to request further guidance later. When making your selection, please note the following: *Some clients are particularly happy with the feedback they receive and want to share it. To facilitate this, private analyses may be made public upon request but will not be refunded once published.​ **Word counts for private analyses are calculated in multiples of 250 and allow for a 10% margin above and below the estimated total count. Public analyses are not available for private performances and recordings/livestreams; only private analyses may be requested for these. I'm deeply committed to supporting emerging artists with free public analyses whenever possible. To keep this programme sustainable alongside my paid commitments, free analyses are delivered based on current availability and, by nature, have a longer wait time. For guaranteed turnarounds or confidential feedback, priority private analyses are recommended. I know how vulnerable it can feel to share your work, and these analyses are detailed and in-depth. So, for your comfort, any public analysis can be converted to a private, confidential analysis upon request at the same private analysis rates outlined above. As of July 2026, both analysis types are written in the Letters from a Mentor format. I'm curious what you think! Do you like the concept of private analyses? Can you see how these would benefit you or your company when developing theatre work? I'm always listening to my clients' thoughts, needs, and desires, and there are a few ways to let me know yours — you're bound to see one that suits you! DM me at @mytheatrementor on Instagram, on X, or on Facebook. Send me a WhatsApp Business message: +447364 189 667 Email me: contact@leejamesbroadwood.com Via my website's Chat Function: Use the 'Contact Me' button on bottom-right of your screen. I look forward to hearing from you!

My Theatre Mentor, Lee James Broadwood, analyses Freedom, Chisenhale Dance Space, London. This analysis has been written in the new Letters from a Mentor format introduced in July 2026. For more information on this format, visit this publication. Dear Unity Arts Collective Team, I had the privilege of discussing your performance-exhibition and a bit of my thinking with Surya after its close. I was really impressed by the work you had produced and by your commitment to the liveness of performance and trance work, which was certainly inherent to and palpable in this work. I think the work is really strong, and I have some suggestions, some of which I mentioned to Surya, to really drive its messages home, without taking away from the spontaneity, feltness, and liveness of your agent style and without requiring extensive funding. To be able to illustrate one of my principal suggestions within the restriction of this word count, I will analyse one significant moment, in particular, as I feel my line of thinking here could be applied to various other aspects of the performance, too. I worded my thinking here to Surya as “It felt as though, rather than performance-exhibition being a means of exploring immigration, immigration was sometimes being used as a means of exploring performance-exhibition.” This is not true of the entire work, of course, but it was true of its most significant events. For example, I thought the invitation to the audience to join in animating the second puppet was a very poignant and interesting idea: it directly encourages group effort in successfully protecting an immigrant and bringing them to safety. However, currently the focus is forced onto the puppeteering itself; it is present as a quirky and enjoyable teamwork exercise with little risk, purely performative and hedonistic, which allows for a misalignment from your trance work efforts. This was furthermore evidenced by an audience member’s fascination with the mechanics and aesthetics of puppeteering thereafter, as opposed to how puppetry can be, and should be here, used in performance to illustrate, convey and materialise meaning and theory. One way to realign this inclusion would be to give the puppet a name (X) and to refer to it NOT as a puppet but solely as X, as an immigrant, and to treat them accordingly: as a human, as a real person with trauma, with a history. Changing James’s passive instruction, “Slow-motion is good for puppets” to something visceral, purposeful and relevant to content, such as “X needs help. X moves slowly because she is weary, dehydrated, and starving”, would both succeed at facilitating the desired puppeteering activity of the performance but, more importantly, at relating it back to the content, immigration, and at providing an emotive impulse: we now proceed with caution, delicateness, care, when moving X. We now have a collective objective: bring X to safety — respectfully. If we were then to use the true anecdotes of the immigrants behind this work, to further contextualise and populate this collective journey, inspired by the real obstacles and dangers out at sea or while crossing borders that they faced, this would add even further emotivity and didacticism to the work. Including the shark puppet is an excellent idea, and the same theory above applies: be wary of being overly playful with a “mind the shark” game; its presence ought to be silent, lurking, dangerous. The mere connotation of its image, along with its physical proximity to the audience-performers, is enough to convey danger in this context without caricaturising and gamifying. We remove the playful puppetry of sharks and replace it with a puppet as a vehicle to achieve active audience awareness and comprehension of the underlying material. How much more poignant would it have been if the implication behind this exercice was that with the help of the collective given to an immigrant stranger, the careful journey to safety would ensure the immigrant’s life, their protection, their fortitude? If the journey was not so simple as walking from one side of the room to another in slow-motion, but if they had obstacles and dangers they would actively confront and work together to overcome, the message would be so much more tangible and relevant to the rest of the content which pivots not around the journey itself but on risk and treatment — most notably, detention, mental and physical decline, and death. This suggestion is not to take away from the definite successes of this work. There is so much strong material here, from the compelling statistics to the personal stories, to the viscerality of performative elements. If we just take a moment to gently draw out a few of these finer nuances, I think it will really elevate the impactful message you've already built. I hope the above suggestion, along with those in my discussion with you, Surya, has given you all some inspiration and ideas to build upon. Your work was a true pleasure to watch, very original and inspiring, and I would love to take our discussions further by offering further support on any of the following, specific to your performance, which I have marked as what I consider to be low–high priority: Differentiation between agent style and performance style. (High Priority) Ensuring thematic relevance in all constituents: incorporation of found objects, and the choice of object, instrument and medium types. (Medium Priority). Raw presentation vs histrionics: presenting real histories, creations and identities as factual accounts within a mimetic context. (High Priority) Conceiving and encouraging audience participation. (Low Priority) Chronology and spatial presentation: ensuring distinction in performance between an immigrant’s journey and their detention upon arrival. (High Priority) Of course, I welcome discussions about any other aspect of the work on which you would like support, too — just let me know. For My Readers Are you working on your own performance and wanting to receive bespoke, detailed guidance and feedback? If you feel a written performance analysis — or a live consultation or workshop — would benefit you, I welcome you to reach out to me to book your own! You can easily reach me through whichever channel is most convenient for you: DM me at @mytheatrementor on Instagram, on X, or on Facebook. Send me a WhatsApp Business message: +44 7364 189 667 Email me: contact@leejamesbroadwood.com Or use my website’s Chat Function: use the 'Contact Me' button on the bottom-right of your screen. You can find out more information about the mentorship services and resources I offer here.

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