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Lee James Broadwood's website, home to the London-based interdisciplinary artist's work, services, and publications. LEE JAMES BROADWOOD Interdisciplinary Artist: Live Performance and Creative Media About Me Audiovisual Content Live Performances Written Content My Website Highlights Poetry Anthology my most recent publication, now available for purchase! More Info Order Today

This mesmerising anthology is divided into four categories, each demonstrating the versatility and art of the poet: LOVE AND ROMANCE, MELANCHOLIA, FANTASY AND INTRIGUE, and DARK. MORE INFO VIEW EXCERPTS ORDER NOW Only £15.99 - Ebook Version Coming Soon! About Book ABOUT THE BOOK The works included in this collection provide the reader with powerful and visceral vignettes to celebrate the beauty of life and of imagination and to appreciate our fragile safety from ubiquitous dangers and pains. Some poems are tributes to the serene and the romantic, whose magic is often overlooked in our fast-paced and sterile world; others sensationalise the horrors so commonplace to our homes and streets that their alienation reveals their truly harrowing and insidious reality. Fictional in nature, these poems are presented alongside eleven special poems dedicated to the poet’s beloveds. PARTIAL EXCERPTS Extracts 'Riverboat Island' Bobbing on a riverboat, hand in hand, heart in heart, for an island far from here, the bold lovebirds depart. Written in the ripples thin, vows eternal, vows of love. Constellations spell their names, behind the moonlit clouds above. 'Firefly' I know you hear me whilst I cry. Hush, my twinkling firefly. I am here, and all is fine, my gentle shimmer, my nightly shine. I know you watch me whilst I pray; worry not your wings away, for I am here, and all is fine. No need to fear, my butterfly. ‘I No Longer Love You’ 'Lauren Taylor' Sunset heart. I used to love you, but now, you’re my eclipse. I prise my soul from your spirit; my kisses, from your lips. Once bewitched by the glints within your eyes and homesick for your chest, I remove your impression from my pillow, and, from my heart, the rest. Violet blush, and silent lips, brunette hair, eyes opaline, hollow skin, and fading gaze, sapphires where carmine had been, Lauren Taylor, aged fourteen, found Bradley Flynn and in deep love fell, warmed by his dulcet passion-words, soothed by his voice of caramel. Extract: ‘Duchess’ Red wine turned to crimson for the powders in their fists, the dukes, ever gallant, must escort this duchess home tonight, in such a state as this. But the poor, little duke who should choose this victim, little does he know… our duchess is a murderess— as his luck should go… Extract: ‘Nectar’ Thawing nectar on my lips, let this not be our last kiss. Hold me tightly, close to you. Feel one rhythm beat again from two. Sugar sweeter once before, show me love awaits once more behind this kiss of honey blue. Soaked my skin in saccharin, glazed his love-yous with black lies, lulled my butterflies to sleep, and with blue nectar bound my eyes. 'Labour' Bleach-white walls, and freezing room. They gather around my bed. Electric shock. Jolt. Convulse. No life within it yet. Regulated ventilation. Coffin made of glass. Death-kissed body crimson. And the wait’s over— at last. CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR PERSONAL COPY TODAY SEE ALSO Click on a title below to see more information, excerpts, and purchasing options. THE EXPLOSA SERIES Visit My Bookstore

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LIVE PERFORMANCE MENTOR: THEATRE PARTNERSHIPS I am currently developing partnerships with fringe, pub and off-West End theatres, to support venues interested in expanding the services they provide to theatre and performance artists. My service is tailored towards artists aiming to develop their craft and to reflect critically upon their performance and/or performance text/scores/choreographies. It is intended for writers, choreographers, directors, dramaturges, actors and live performance artists at any stage of their career and with performances in any stage of development. Recommend my services to your visiting and resident artists In Exchange, I Can signpost clients, when applicable, to the facilities and activities of the theatre and to any members of the theatre’s tech/design crews, their freelancers, etc. All partnership terms are negotiable. Resources will be provided to support you with recommendations. Viewing as a Theatremaker, Performance Artist, or Troupe? Discover My Services Contact Me

The Live Performance Mentor Providing support, guidance and advice to theatremakers and live performance artists in the UK and around the globe Why are live performance mentors useful? Having deeply researched a vast range of performance styles, techniques and training types, a live performance mentor is aware of current and historical trends and methodologies within the industry and can inspire your creativity and maintain accuracy and artistic integrity in your performances. What is a live performance mentor? A live performance mentor supports theatremakers and live performance artists in the realisation of their vision, assessing all aspects of your performance and guiding you to make original and intelligent decisions in your work. PRIMARY FOCUS To understand my clients' artistic visions and to help them discover exciting, creative and perhaps challenging means of communicating and expanding them through performance. TRAINING, SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE CREATIVE AND COHERENT COMBINATION of all theatrical components: acting, texts, movement, set, lighting, sound, music. Consu ltations Discussion-Based S essions See More Book a consultation to: — receive advice on performance-making methodologies. — present, discuss an d refine work-in-progress ideas and materials. — receive/revisit in-person feedback on performances. — discuss theatre and performance theories and their potential application. Performance Analyses Professional, Detailed Feedback See More Bespoke, in-depth feedback on any type of live performance at any stage of development. — physical, written feedback to revisit a nytime. — shared privat ely and confidentially. — focused on your specific areas of concern. — non-contact-based for artists with social anxiety. Workshops Practical Support and Training See More Book a workshop to: — receive bespoke actor training. — refine existing performance content. — trial new methods of generating material. — improve team morale and ensemble efforts. CHOOSE YOR SESSION PLAN Rapid-Advice Sessions = 30 mins for new clients and those wanting quick guidance on specific issues One-Off Sessions Introductory / Rapid-Advice Sessions: £15 for 30mins Per Hour: £30 Half-Day Sessions: £75 Full Session: £100 Half-Day Sessions = 4 hours Full Sessions = 8 hours Monthly Subscription One Half-Day Session Per Week: £175/month (SAVE £125) From April 2025: Exclusive access included to essays and online materials for only £10 extra PREFER A WRITTEN ANALYSIS? View My Public Analyses Request Your Analysis Viewing as a Theatre Venue Owner? Discover Partnership Opportunities Contact Me

The Live Performance Mentor Providing support, guidance and advice to theatremakers and live performance artists in the UK and around the globe Performance Analyses Critical Writings Back to Main Page FAQs Contact Welcome to The Live Performance Mentor ! My name is Lee James Broadwood, and I am a London-based interdisciplinary artist and live performance mentor. I have been working as a theatre critic for six years now, providing technical analyses by request to theatre and performance artists in London, UK, and privately across the globe. I am grateful to be able to share publicly through The Live Performance Mentor some of the work I do whilst providing my services as a live performance mentor, in exchange for supporting those who are unable to purchase private analyses or those who are new to and trialling my work. Contrary to commercial reviews, which are released with the aim of publicising or marketing performances, the performance analyses I provide offer professional, in-depth feedback, dramaturgical and evaluative in nature. They consider all aspects of a performance and evaluate their respective and combined articulacy, efficacy, originality, accuracy and integrity. These aspects include but are not limited to: acting; choreography; writing; direction; design; effects; underlying historical, sociopolitical and cultural content; and overall performance style and subtext. I welcome performance analysis requests from any artists from all over the world for any performance type, regardless of its genre, style or stage of development. To find out more about my services as a live performance mentor, please click here . For more information on private performance analyses, please click here . And to request a technical analysis of your performance, please click here . I am ever grateful for those who share their work with me and allow me to develop as an artist myself. Thank you. Performance Analyses Below, you will find all of the public analyses that I have published to date for free as part of my service as a live performance mentor . To return to The Live Performance Mentor's main site, please click here . [Performance Analysis:] SEX CHAT GRANNY, Etcetera Theatre, London. [Performance Analysis:] FUNNY GUY, Barons Court Theatre, London. [Performance Analysis:] THE CLOSURE AND THE QUEST, Barons Court Theatre, London. [Performance Analysis:] DR DOLITTLE KILLS A MAN, London Hospital Tavern, London. [Performance Analysis:] STILL LIFE WITH ONIONS, Barons Court Theatre, London. [Performance Analysis:] FRANK’S CLOSET, Union Theatre, London. [Performance Analysis:] MARRY ME A LITTLE, Stage Door Theatre, London. [Performance Analysis:] A CARAVAN NAMED DESIRE, Camden People's Theatre, London. [Performance Analysis:] SKIN, Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, London. [Performance Analysis:] UNDER INFLUENCE, CryerArts Centre, London. [Performance Analysis:] WONDER DRUG: A COMEDY ABOUT CYSTIC FIBROSIS, Omnibus Theatre, London. [Performance Analysis:] SUPERNOVA, Omnibus Theatre, London. 1 2 3 4 5 RETURN TO MAIN SERVICES

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The Live Performance Mentor combining critical theory and performance analysis to provide technical feedback for London’s live artists FAQs About The Performance Critic What is The Live Performance Mentor? The Live Performance Mentor is a professional service provided by interdisciplinary artist Lee James Broadwood to theatremakers and live performance artists desiring expert feedback on their work. The service is available in person across the UK and online across the globe, and in the form of consultations, workshops or performance analyses. Sessions can range from introductory or rapid-advice sessions lasting 30 minutes to full-day sessions lasting 8 hours. Where and for how long has The Live Performance Mentor been active? As a provider of performance analyses, The Live Performance Mentor has been active for six years now, releasing analyses both publicly on this site and privately, by request. During this time, the service has been available in London and Brighton, UK, and in Nantes, France. It was also available across the entirety of the UK and to clients in the USA during the 2020-2021 "lockdowns". Currently, in-person consultations and workshops are offered in London, and online sessions are available to clients across the globe. Whilst public performance analyses of physical performances are available only to those in London, performance analyses are offered to performances taking place elsewhere or viewable only by recording/livestream. What is a performance analysis? Where theatre/performance critic newspaper articles or journals, or theatre/performance review blogs, publish commercial reviews or promotional content, The Live Performance Mentor's performance analyses assess the integrity and efficacy of live performances and their origin texts/scores. Though public performance analyses are accessible to all my website visitors, analyses are intended to benefit the overall craft and creative awareness of the theatremakers and performance artists who request them. Performance analyses assess all aspects of the work, including acting and performing techniques and styles; choreography, dance and movement; story and plot development, structure and continuity; lighting, sound, set and costume design/operation; written texts; and more. They concentrate on what was original, poignant, articulate and coherent about the performances in study, what was not, and why. It is also common that they suggest alternative methods that could have avoided unwanted tensions, awkwardness, blandness or fallibility. Performance analyses, unlike commercial reviews, do not provide the reader with subjective responses to or general synopses of performances, nor do they intend to promote the creatives' work to readers or to celebrate the past, present and upcoming successes of these creatives. They are offered for dramaturgical, critical and pedagogic purposes only and consider solely the specific performance in study as it currently stands. Who writes The Live Performance Mentor's performance analyses? All performance analyses are written by Lee James Broadwood. Is the service free? Some services are free, yes! Otherwise, services are kept affordable. Please visit The Live Performance Mentor's site to see a full breakdown of services and their prices. Please note: All reviews are offered subject to the provision of a complimentary ticket to your performance, as per industry standards. The cost of a ticket to your performance cannot be deduced from the amount required for the release of a private review. To cover travel costs is not necessary. No VAT is applied on payment. Can I find The Live Performance Mentor on social media? The Live Performance Mentor is on social media, yes! @mytheatrementor across all platforms. Alternatively, you can follow Lee James Broadwood on all social media platforms, where public performance analyses are shared amongst other exciting content: @ljbroadwood Is it possible to be notified whenever a new public performance analysis is published? You can subscribe to this website to be notified whenever new content is released by Lee James Broadwood. Alternatively, you can follow The Live Performance Mentor on social media to discover public performance analyses and other exciting content: @mytheatrementor Requesting a Review What is The Live Performance Mentor? The Live Performance Mentor is a professional service provided by interdisciplinary artist Lee James Broadwood to theatremakers and live performance artists desiring expert feedback on their work. The service is available in person across the UK and online across the globe, and in the form of consultations, workshops or performance analyses. Sessions can range from introductory or rapid-advice sessions lasting 30 minutes to full-day sessions lasting 8 hours. Where and for how long has The Live Performance Mentor been active? As a provider of performance analyses, The Live Performance Mentor has been active for six years now, releasing analyses both publicly on this site and privately, by request. During this time, the service has been available in London and Brighton, UK, and in Nantes, France. It was also available across the entirety of the UK and to clients in the USA during the 2020-2021 "lockdowns". Currently, in-person consultations and workshops are offered in London, and online sessions are available to clients across the globe. Whilst public performance analyses of physical performances are available only to those in London, performance analyses are offered to performances taking place elsewhere or viewable only by recording/livestream. What is a performance analysis? Where theatre/performance critic newspaper articles or journals, or theatre/performance review blogs, publish commercial reviews or promotional content, The Live Performance Mentor's performance analyses assess the integrity and efficacy of live performances and their origin texts/scores. Though public performance analyses are accessible to all my website visitors, analyses are intended to benefit the overall craft and creative awareness of the theatremakers and performance artists who request them. Performance analyses assess all aspects of the work, including acting and performing techniques and styles; choreography, dance and movement; story and plot development, structure and continuity; lighting, sound, set and costume design/operation; written texts; and more. They concentrate on what was original, poignant, articulate and coherent about the performances in study, what was not, and why. It is also common that they suggest alternative methods that could have avoided unwanted tensions, awkwardness, blandness or fallibility. Performance analyses, unlike commercial reviews, do not provide the reader with subjective responses to or general synopses of performances, nor do they intend to promote the creatives' work to readers or to celebrate the past, present and upcoming successes of these creatives. They are offered for dramaturgical, critical and pedagogic purposes only and consider solely the specific performance in study as it currently stands. Who writes The Live Performance Mentor's performance analyses? All performance analyses are written by Lee James Broadwood. Is the service free? Some services are free, yes! Otherwise, services are kept affordable. Please visit The Live Performance Mentor's site to see a full breakdown of services and their prices. Please note: All reviews are offered subject to the provision of a complimentary ticket to your performance, as per industry standards. The cost of a ticket to your performance cannot be deduced from the amount required for the release of a private review. To cover travel costs is not necessary. No VAT is applied on payment. Can I find The Live Performance Mentor on social media? The Live Performance Mentor is on social media, yes! @mytheatrementor across all platforms. Alternatively, you can follow Lee James Broadwood on all social media platforms, where public performance analyses are shared amongst other exciting content: @ljbroadwood Is it possible to be notified whenever a new public performance analysis is published? You can subscribe to this website to be notified whenever new content is released by Lee James Broadwood. Alternatively, you can follow The Live Performance Mentor on social media to discover public performance analyses and other exciting content: @mytheatrementor RETURN TO THE PERFORMANCE CRITIC

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