
Tomorrow's show
Thoroughly looking forward to tomorrow's show. Our last devising session on Friday was really productive and we've got a really interesting piece to share with folk. There's science and spirituality, crazy sounds and marvellously naff 50s costumes. This guys says "what are you waiting for?" #scratchtheatre #thearches #daphneoram
Black and midnight hags...
Saw Filter's Macbeth at the weekend, there. Cracking. No set apart from strange DIY instruments for the ensemble/weird sisters in the centre. Playful, anarchic, deconstructed, funny and yet...it really honoured the text...and the text really came through. No mean feat. #filtersmacbeth #citizenstheatre
Daphne Oram/Scratch Theatre
So, the last couple of weeks I've been working on a piece called 'Daphne Oram's Wonderful World of Sound'. It's been the most fun I've had in a rehearsal room in a long time - devising stuff, physical stuff, abstract stuff. The sort of stuff I love. We're telling a story, of sorts, about a woman who moved electronic music forward in a time when few men (and fewer women) were doing so. Trying to find a physical language that works with the sounds of the time and compliments Da
Cora Bissett
The Tron Theatre have a new initiative called 'The Tron 100 Club' of which I am a member. It's a great idea: bringing lots of creatives (100 of us, don't you know) together for panel discussions, workshops and the like. Today I was at an incredibly interesting session with Cora Bissett, who talked us through her process when she's devising and creating theatre. At the Edinburgh Festival last year I decided that when I grew up I wanted to be the Gallic-looking chap that plays