Andrew McKechnie

I'm a theatre creator and student. I write plays, direct plays, produce plays and sometimes act. You can usually find me desperately running around fixing up last minute details for a show or arguing artistic philosophy, drunk on wine and exultation, with my nose in a theatre book or play, or, most often, hurrying to something: dramaturgy sessions, rehearsals, volunteer work, other peoples shows, to life.

I run a theatre company called Love and Time Machines. Which is a bit of a gypsy initiative intended to give people a place to share and to fail. A place for audiences to come without expectation or reservation and see the gifts that people share. It's a theatre company that focuses on the creation of new plays and on giving arts of all stripes a chance to present their work. It also stands firmly on the mandate that you cannot put a value on art, that the most careful crafted bit of Pinter, the most vitriolic Mamet or the newest and most inventive post-modern dance-theatre piece can all have vastly different values to different people. So it is up to those people to choose the value they attach to it. We present nights of original creation and ask people to thoughtfully consider the value they had on what they saw and then to pay accordingly on the way out of the theatre. This is not a donation, we do not want cheek-pinching charity. We want people to make a choice for themselves as to the value of the theatre they just witnessed. We've found this a functional operating model based partially on the deeply communal modus operandi which has our members deeply involved in the theatre community.

Also linked here is some minor displays of my interests, lastFM and my tumblr. Their is only a little less religious fervor about these, the same love and affection though.