The Company
Everal A. Walsh
Everal has been an actor for ten years. In that time he has worked in numerous theatres, TV, and radio productions, as well as voice projects for games and advertising companies. Theatre credits include: Anthony & Cleopatra (Royal Exchange), Karry Owky (Theatre in the Mill) and Beatification of Area Boy (West Yorkshire Playhouse). TV credits include: Coronation Street, Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere and Prime Suspect 5.
“The decision to set up Dark and Dirty has been a long and scary road but also an exciting opportunity to work from a plain canvas and create through discussion and devising; taking risks, analysing life issues – personal as well as political. The point of Dark & Dirty is to push beyond our normal comfort zone to see what it is that gives us reactions to our surroundings, from our inner selves to the outer world, from our child state to adulthood.
“Some may find our work offensive. To find some of the triggers of fear we can't be afraid of delving into the darker sides of ourselves. To find a level of truth of who we are sometimes we have to be willing to expose ourselves to be seen. Dark & Dirty is a place to experiment and even sometimes fail, but not to be frightened. I believe what we have to offer is entertaining thought provoking work.”
Michael Stewart
Michael Stewart is an award winning writer, born in Salford, who moved to Yorkshire in 1995 and is now based in Bradford. He has written several full length stage plays, as well as securing work in radio and television; most recently writing for Emmerdale at Yorkshire TV. He was the winner of the BBC Alfred Bradley Award in 2003 and winner of the King’s Cross Award for New Writing in 2004. His stage plays have been performed across the country, including Yorkshire, London and Edinburgh. He is currently working on a number of theatre commissions as well as a commission for Radio 4.
“The reason we have formed Dark and Dirty is not to add to the plethora of theatre companies that already exist, but to contribute something genuinely fresh and different. We believe that the marriage of the physical and cerebral should be the goal of all great theatre, the yin and yang at its hub. We also acknowledge that most of the proponents of physical theatre - Artaud, Meyerhold, Brook are/were director/theorists. We believe that we need writers and actors too, who can think beyond the words and create physical images.”
Michael is also writer in residence at Theatre in the Mill
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