Popping-in?

Our studio is filled with light and music.
There are multiple meeting rooms, a well stocked kitchen, and an indoor garden (with fishpond). Talk to us about access needs, environmental factors and any accommodations we might make to enhance your visit. Pop-in for tea and stay to use a spare desk for as long as you need.

11 Greenwich Centre Business Park,
53 Norman Road, Greenwich
London SE10 9QF

Cog is a Certified B Corporation

Public transport

We’re next to Greenwich train and DLR station. We have a door right on the concourse but it’s different to our postal address.
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From Greenwich rail platform

This video shows the route to take from the train that will arrive at Greenwich rail station from London Bridge. There's a gentle slope next to the staircase.

From Greenwich DLR station

This video shows the route to take from the DLR that will arrive at Greenwich DLR station from Bank. There's a lift at the platform level if that's useful.

By car

If you have to come by car, we have a couple of parking spaces. We have a charging point that you are welcome to use if you have an electric car. Call ahead and we'll make sure the spaces are free. Use our postcode (SE10 9QF) to guide you in.

Get in touch

We’d love to hear from you. Use whichever medium works best for you.

11 Greenwich Centre Business Park,
53 Norman Road, Greenwich
London SE10 9QF

Cog is a Certified B Corporation

New project enquiry

It's exciting to chat about potential new projects. We don't have a ‘sales’ team or a form to fill in. Call us or give us a little detail via email and we'll get straight back to you.

enquiry@cogdesign.com

Website support

If you're a client then you'll be best served by calling us or contacting us via ClickUp, otherwise you can use this dedicated email that reaches all of the digital team.

digital@cogdesign.com

Finance questions

This email hits the inboxes of the people who deal with our bookkeeping and finances.

accounts@cogdesign.com

Just want a chat?

Sometimes enquiries don't fall neatly under a heading, do they?

hello@cogdesign.com

Cultural Calendar

A round-up of recommendations and reviews, sent on the first Friday of each month, topped-off with a commissioned image from a talented new illustrator. Sign-up and tell your friends.

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Tree at Old Vic

Tree at Old Vic

Written and performed (with Tim Key) by Daniel Kitson, Tree is described as a (relatively) new play about dissent, commitment, two people and a tree.

I came to Daniel Kitson late. About a year ago, his name kept cropping up in conversation and I had no idea who he was. Writers told me he was a great writer who did some stand-up. Comedians told me he was a great stand-up who did some writing. Theatre people told me he was a theatrical talent, finding his voice. They all told me that he didn’t do TV because he had to control every aspect of his performance. Nobody called him a control-freak.

When I saw that the Old Vic were trailing his ‘(relatively) new’ play for two people, Tree, I rushed to get a ticket. But I couldn’t buy one because only members and his mailing list could book. My Twitter-stream filled with ticket-holding fans; how was it that everyone I know was on this man’s mailing list?

I did get tickets when public booking opened. I booked for a weekend matinee. But not a normal matinee: the matinees for Tree are at 11am, and when the tickets arrived, they weren’t tickets, they were vouchers to exchange for tickets at the box office on the morning of the matinee. Was all of this an example of Kitson’s need for control (or does he just really like watching sports on Saturday afternoons) or am I reading far too much into it?

Arriving at the Old Vic, I had to queue, in the rain, to exchange my non-ticket for an actual ticket. Then up to the Lillian Baylis circle which I can now confirm is higher that the top of a fully-grown tree (but not an oak). The show went up late, possibly because of the ticket-exchange shenanigans or maybe because the stage-hands hadn’t finished the technical set-up in the newly configured, in-the-round auditorium.

As people drifted in to take their seats, many had to walk across the stage, around the huge tree that dominated the space. They were almost tripping over the stage-hands.

Oh, hang on, they aren’t stage-hands, that’s Kitson and comedian Tim Key, on their hands and knees, ‘drawing’ the set and spelling out the word ‘ROAD’ with masking tape.

Then Kitson climbs into the tree, the lights go out and back on and Tim Key’s character rushes onto the road, prepared with a picnic, late for a very important date.

What follows is a beautifully crafted hour and a half of dialogue. The back and forth, rat-a-tat-tat delivery shifts our focus, wrong-foots us, walks us down some dead-ends, and mixes some metaphors as we learn (or think we learn) how their paths have crossed at this particular time and space.

Tree is very funny. It’s exactly what good theatre should be, a play that you can’t imagine working in any other medium.

Key does a great physical job of unraveling his role whilst our only sight of Kitson is in glimpses through the foliage.  I can’t stop staring, peering, hoping to get a glimpse of the elusive character as he controls the performance.

I enjoyed every minute and I’ll be looking out for other opportunities to be controlled by Daniel Kitson. It’ll be easier now because I’ve joined his mailing list.