Alex Kanefsky

About 18 months ago I was interviewed by the Jewish Chronicle about Cable Street, the musical I’d co-written about fighting 1930s British fascism. The JC is an august newspaper, founded 1841, which, (Wikipedia tells me) makes it the longest running Jewish paper in the world. In the 1930s, it was concerned with presenting an appearance of respectability for British Jews, in the face of a frequently hostile press that saw Jews as inherently alien, subversive and dangerous. When

When I wake up at 5:30am I tend to be consumed with inane thoughts: the shopping list, chase the doctor, who was that guy in the 3rd...

I recently went a on a work trip to Kiev, Ukraine, performing storytelling and teaching workshops on Shakespeare at an International...

Quite a few friends have asked for my take on Labour and Antisemitism (AS). It pops up like a bad smell on my social media & in my head...

My company Paper Balloon recently performed our piece Once Upon A Snowflake at Pegasus Theatre, Oxford for the theatre's Christmas show....

Come and see my new show 'Disgusting Creatures', premiering at the rather wonderful Story Museum in Oxford. Come out from behind the...

Excited to announce that I am in the process of developing a new storytelling piece for families, to be ready in time for summer...

Very excited to share extracts from two excellent written responses to my Creative Curators session on Dystopian Fiction at Stoke...

I'm totally blown away by the responses to this session with year 5 at Jubilee Primary School. We devised our own creation myths, based...

Another discovery made this week is what I believe to be an innate understanding we (and children in particular) have of story...