Try-out at St Paul’s Church Knightsbridge on Thursday 26th April at 7pm.
Di as Widow Bergmann at ‘The Red Vial’ book launch, Coffin Factory Birmingham
Performed readings from Wilkie Collins’ ‘The Red Vial’ at the launch of Caroline Radcliffe’s book.
Widow Bergmann prepares the poison
With Caroline as Narrator and Jane Chapman at the Harmonium.
‘Pussy Protest’ at London College of Fashion MA Show December 2017
Di in Kelly Ryan’s performative costume morphing from Suffragette to Pussy Rioter at The Lilian Baylis Theatre, director Peta Lily.
Mary’s Hand
Martin, Clare and Di in rehearsal
Libretto about the life of Mary Tudor with composer Martin Bussey and Mezzo Clare McCaldin for Mc Caldin Arts. 
Overdrive
New solo show for Linda Marlowe based on 80’s cyber- punk classic Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson. In development with Moya Productions.
The Aleph – Overdrive
The Ubiquitous Woman – Work in Progress showing Thursday 10th November
Diep-Haven Festival – ‘Written Portraits’ Poetry Reading in Newhaven Library
Written Portraits
Face
My Written Portraits are part of the Face a Face Diep-Haven Festival Exhibition in Dieppe.
Poems inspired by stories told in open conversation during a residency at Glyndebourne and at The Hillcrest Community Centre, Newhaven.
Face a Face
The Wardrobe Project
Exploring in/visibility as an older woman – wardrobe choices and attitudes to ageing. R&D stage.
Di Sherlock – The Wardrobe Project
Memory Poems – Free Event in the Reading Room at The Wellcome Collection
Thursday 16th June at 15.00
Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
020 7611 7251
Join us for a reading of a selection of my Memory Poems, celebrating the stories gifted in conversation with people living with Early Stage Alzheimer’s and their carers. And join the conversation! Have just started working with Westminster Arts in a new Memory Cafe in Hammersmith. Here’s a new poem, inspired by the participants’ chat over tea and cake as they painted pots and planted seeds.
The Painting of Pots
She paints her pot a vibrant purple and blue
freely, yet tempered
by design.
A Rothco from the fabric of Africa.
Today was a storm in a teapot.
The husband she cares for
at home,
once a tv and radio mechanic,
can no longer put the tv on.
It’s a big patience
she says,
indicating Kahn’s fancy china cup
from Peckham.
If he says teapot
and she says teacup
the problems start.
So now she says teapot.
She came by sea in the seventies,
hot from Sierra Leone,
used an afro wig, platforms and flares
and met him through her brother,
who didn’t like the idea,
them both coming from different backgrounds.
But who listens to their brother?
The days of autocratic men are quickly going,
says the man from Grenada,
knowingly.
Round the table the women laugh.
She calmly paints,
precise strokes that allow the pattern to emerge,
a blue eye leaps from the royal purple
like a spot on the surface of Jupiter.
It’s a big patience.