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If you don’t have stories to tell, you don’t have stories to tell
When I tell people, “ ,” I’m not trying to be clever — I’m being literal. I say this often in my storytelling workshops. Here’s what I mean 👇Everyone has stories to tell. Simply being alive is proof of that.But if you don’t recognise your own experiences — the moments, conversations, challenges, and small wins — as stories worth telling, they’ll never be available to you. It’s not that the stories don’t exist.It ’s that you’re not collecting them. Stories don’t just land on
Colin Skelton
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Three Principles of Noh
Twenty years ago, I arrived in Tokyo, bubbling with excitement and ready for an adventure that would change my life. On the way to my...
Colin Skelton
Sep 232 min read


Datsuzoku–脱俗, だつぞく
Living in Tokyo for eight months in 2004, while practicing and researching both traditional and avant-garde experimental theatre, I...
Colin Skelton
Sep 182 min read


Reflections on Storytelling
Albert Einstein once said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” That was over 70 years ago,...
Colin Skelton
Sep 101 min read


Grin 'n Tonic - From Tomato Red to Stage Ready
Shooting For The Moon Just over a year ago, we launched the first Grin 'n Tonic comedy, improv, and music evening in Linden, Joburg. It...
Colin Skelton
Jul 98 min read


The Heart Of The Story
The heart of the story is the art of the story. 🚌I was drowning in Nordic winter gloom. The sky was a heavy grey blanket, the cold rain...
Colin Skelton
May 22 min read


I Built A Treehouse
I built a treehouse-ish during COVID for my daughter at the bottom of our garden. I didn’t want her to grow up and say, “My dad never...
Colin Skelton
Aug 10, 20242 min read


You Already Are a Storyteller
"We live in stories the way fish live in water." - Daniel Taylor Storytelling is everywhere. So is storyselling. Many people write about...
Colin Skelton
Aug 4, 20242 min read


Can You Find Your Slow Lane?
In a world that values speed and busyness, what happens when we intentionally choose to slow down? Theatre-making practices in Asia...
Colin Skelton
Jun 16, 20242 min read


MA
There is power in Ma. When I lived in Tokyo, I was always mezmorised when walking down a busy street that was bustling with people moving...
Colin Skelton
Sep 8, 20221 min read


The Gift Of Slow
Slowness…moving slowly, thinking slowly, witnessing slowly, listening slowly, acting slowly, experiencing slowly. ‘Slow’ is an antidote...
Colin Skelton
Sep 8, 20221 min read
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