Little Red Riding Hood (+23 places in the dictionary)

Is it possible to write new fairytales? Or can we just rewrite old ones? I’m thinking here about Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale where he breaks down a group of Russian folk tales into a classification system of thirty one narrative functions.

For Little Red Riding Hood, it breaks down like this:

1. One of the [...]

By The Time You Read This, I Will Be In Switzerland

Hello. I thought I would post up two poems today. Both of these were originally recorded for Cambridge 209 Radio last year.

Apparently 209  is going off-air at the end of this week. Tonight was meant to be the final fundraiser for the station, but I’m led to believe that closure is now unavoidable. If you’re [...]

My Shoes Are In Love (Film)

Ross Sutherland: My Shoes Are In Love from Ross Sutherland on Vimeo.

Belated Valentines Day wishes to you!

The poem is taken from my children’s show, The Nine And A Half Commandments of Aisle16. The show also features work from Luke Wright, Chris Hicks and Joel ‘Joel’ Stickley. The whole thing was originally commissioned by The British [...]

I am right after N-Dubz

My face appeared in The Independent yesterday. I was teaching journalist Holly Williams how to be a performance poet. It was a lot of fun. Our photographer got held up because she’d just been shooting N-Dubz, and they insisted at looking at every photograph she took: “Let me see that one! That’s the shot! That’s [...]

Patrick Troughton

A while back I did an interview with arts collective Mercy, for a regular feature they run called My Geppetto. The idea was that I name a major influence and talk about how they inspired me. I chose Dr Who.

The thing went up on Mercy’s website this week- you can read the interview [...]

Five star review of T3SoP!

As printed in today’s Broadway Baby:

In this one-hour show, talented Ross Sutherland brings philosophy, physics and fun together to create a highly entertaining view of contemporary society, which transcends the obvious, scintillates with originality and packs a hard-hitting intellectual punch with the feather-light levity of a cotton-ball souflée aerated by a child’s laughter.

First review of ‘The Three Stigmata of Pacman’

Spoonfed just posted the first review of T3SoP, and its really nice. Thanks guys!

Read it here.

The Three Stigmata of Pacman: Ticket info

THE THREE STIGMATA OF PACMAN

A show about time travel by Ross Sutherland

ROSS SUTHERLAND’S JOB IS TO PREDICT THE FUTURE. As a journalist for an influential and notoriously histrionic newspaper, Ross spends his days scribbling  predictions about the impending apocalypse. When a run-in with a fishing magazine reveals the devastating power of self-fulfilling prophecy, Ross pledges to repair the [...]

Trips To Spar

The other week I took a trip to Cardiff to record a segment for Radio 4’s poetry show, Bespoken Word. We recorded in front of a live audience in a lecture hall at Cardiff Uni. The whole thing was a lot of fun- great performances from everyone on the bill (Laura Dockrill, Disraeli, Nathan Penlington).

I [...]

Christmas No.1, 1979

Yesterday saw the annual all-day poetry extravaganza at the Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell. Which means today sees the annual all-day nausea extravaganza at the spinning couch in my piercingly bright house. From what I can remember of it, I had a pretty good time. In the afternoon, there was the launch for the new Fuselit [...]