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mountain to climb
week 3 was a tough haul, and we emerged from it with the bare bones of a show, a draft 8 script and a hefty pile of sheet music – also to learn. As if to heap up reminders of the focus now required of us, our friendly builders start to construct a dirt barrage […]
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We’re into week 3 of rehearsals for the forthcoming Foursight / Talking Birds collaboration Forever In Your Debt. Week 1 started with a read through of writer Nick Walker’s draft no. 5. It ended with the jaunty singing of composer Derek Nisbet’s tunes. In between was oodles of character exploration with impressive vocal gymnastics from […]
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Tags: foursight, talking birds, theatre
Further to my previous blog entry, here is the published discussion document for The Challenge of Change: How can we make a better future for theatre here in the West Midlands – a two day event organised by Mid*Point and facilitated by Theatre Bristol. It’s a substantial thing, (which I’ve only just started to digest) […]
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[for your enjoyment, please play The Platters “I’m Sorry…” as an audio accompaniment to this blog entry.] Birthday delight for me yesterday as the Bristol Uni P2 team pulled out top drawer performances for our two presentations of The Little Sister. Slick, sassy and stacked with humour, I felt totally at ease as the show rattled […]
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Tags: Bristol University, The Little Sister
style as content
The Bristol students and I are into our first week’s intensive rehearsal period. In eight days’ time we’ll have performances, but after a grim monday (me staring panic-stricken at a conglomerated script) I acknowledge the need for a change of strategy. A return to our earlier workshop exercises immediately yields fresh bytes of material laced […]
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Tags: Chandleresque, film noir, The Little Sister
the challenge of change
The Challenge of Change: How can we create a better future for theatre here in the West Midlands? I didn’t know what to expect of this two-day ‘Open Space’ gathering (organised by Alison Gagen for Mid-Point and facilitated by Seth Honnor of Theatre Bristol) and wasn’t sure I could spare the time. But re-connecting to […]
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Tags: midpoint, the challenge of change, theatre, west midlands
a re-Resurrection
A flurry of excited e-mail exchanges with my co-Resurrectionists Cheryl Pickering and Richard Chew confirms that our music-theatre opus Vesalius-a Requiem is closer to being restaged. Rick and I created the piece for The Old Operating Theatre Museum, at London Bridge, in 1996, having previewed it in mac‘s intimate Hexagon Theatre a couple of months […]
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Tags: music-theatre, requiem, richard chew, the resurrectionists, vesalius
little sister’s big sister
Part of the thrill, and challenge, of making a devised show is that you discover the rules as you proceed. A methodology emerges as the material gets made. Having a pre-defined formula would make for a more efficient process but I choose to adopt a more open, playful approach – knowing that accidents will yield […]
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Tags: Bristol University, Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
Commissioned
The news filters back to me that, following thursday’s First Bite presentations, Untied Artists have won one of the commissions. This means a spring platform for the extended version of Al Bowlly, courtesy of WAC and the mac. I’m thrilled for Jake, Jo and Peter Cann – who’ve all worked hard to develop the piece over […]
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First Bitten
If I start attempting an intelligible critique at this time of the morning I’ll get no sleep and will probably lose heart and give up anyway, so a brief shout to China Plate and all the artists who made up an excellent evening of performance extracts at Stan’s Cafe’s @AEHarris space tonight. Out of a […]
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Tags: AEHarris, chinaplatetheatre, First Bite, Stan's Cafe
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