Feel Britannia: Pete Higgin
SERIES: We ask Punchdrunk director "What makes you feel emotional about Britain?"
With all the rhetoric and Big Ideas surrounding the general election, Culture Whisper wanted to collect some of the little things that spark emotions about Britain.
In anticipation of May 7, we asked our favourite figures in the arts to tell us what makes Britain feel like home.
Punchdrunk Theatre’s Pete Higgin says: ‘Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem – seeing Mark Rylance perform really resonated. More recently seeing the reaction to the disaster at the Battersea Arts Centre - everyone in the arts scene has got behind them with an unprecedented amount of support… There’s a wartime spirit of getting on with it and making do.
Pete Higgins is a Punchdrunk director, whose latest project, Against Captain's Orders, is at Greenwich Maritime Museum until. Click here to read more.
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