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Moscow Art Theatre trip – May 2008
I spent two weeks training at Moscow Art Theatre in late May. The exchange programme between MAT and University of Kent runs each year with up to a dozen students from MAT spending time in the Drama department in Canterbury in early May before an exchange later in the month. Set up by Stanislavski in 1897,…
Gwineverra, Tom and the Enemy of Man
Gwineverra, Tom and the Enemy of Man is a graphic novel performance set at the very beginning of the 21st century. There is dream and death. The characters live in a crime-ridden city where the placement of action and words is offhand and seeks no forgiveness, yet is soft and ultimate, an instant memory, a mark. Something…
One Man Good Woman
I am making a solo show which not only aims to serve as practice in order to research the application of Brecht’s concept of Gestus but also tells the story of one good woman turned sour by the memory of one man. It is has a Hollywood frame, circa 1940s and uses Brecht’s The Good…
My MA thesis: What to do with Gestus Today? Version II
Even when a character behaves by contradictions that’s only because nobody can be identically the same at two unidentical moments. Changes in his exterior continually lead to an inner reshuffling. The continuity of the ego is a myth. A man is an atom that perpetually breaks up and forms anew. We have to show things…
Senior Moments – Forest Fringe, Edinburgh – 20/08/10
I’m with Kristin Fredricksson this week in Edinburgh, walking the streets talking to older people and asking them if they’d like to take part in Senior Moments at Forest Fringe at 6pm on Friday 20th August. Go to the Senior Moments blog for full details.
Dog Kennel Hill Project @ The Place
I’m working with Dog Kennel Hill Project this weekend. Their ‘People Working’ is a peformance tour around The Place’s building. The Place is celebrating its 40th birthday and this tour runs 5 times over the weekend, taking an audience of 10 through the basements, offices, cupboards and rooms of the building. In each performers ‘work’. For…