Our day began in a familiar fashion, each sharing our experiences, however, today our experiences centred around our individual experience of disability. Whether it was personal or familiar, everyone had encountered disability in their lives. I think that is indicative of most of society. In addition...
Crunch day for the Disability Slapstick Plan Well, after nearly 3 years of workshops, a couple of team member drop outs, new interest from theatrical funders holding promise in their grip and a hell of a lot of exploration via discussion into the murky depths of...
Second to last day Malthouse/Playwriting Aus Exploration Monday 6 November The partial work we shall be reading and blocking out on Friday at 2pm - open to all so come to the Tower Room at the Malthouse, has been doggedly pieced together from discussions and improvisations completed...
Today started with tales from last night’s adventure. Quite literally, taking Jon (codirector of Ridiculusmous Theatre UK), a good friend Brigid and I to the premiere of ‘Jeremy the Dud’ (the pilot in which I play a heavily rouged and melodramatic mum) in a place...
After a day’s break yesterday we reconvened in the Tower Room to continue development of the work that will be shown on Friday the 10th at 2pm. Informed by the improvisation and discussion carried out by our group over the three active weeks since February 2016,...
This aspect of the arts holds endless fascination and interest for me; the ability to revisit projects over the space of years in order to re-develop and find a shape contoured by the progression of one another’s lives, the evolution of circumstances. Meeting this time in...
Today we met and, in making a sedge way between talking and discussion, spoke about penetration and what that means. This is something that has come up throughout this exploration. There was the intention to make an informal sharing with a limited audience. We wanted to...
What are the politics of Penetration? Colours can even be political. Practically and reflectively through dialogue, we explored this today. Are we penetrating each other? Are we advocating for our protection? Tomorrow we will show a taste of the depths visited this residency with Jo Bannon to a...
After morning check in, conversation germinated around the seeds or spores of ideas. From little things, big things grow… a shoot here, a leaf there. Either the fledgling concept grows roots to harbour real growth or it dies away leaving fertile soil for fresh intent. Focussed...
How are you penetrated? We were asked to translate this into our expression - bodily movement, dance rendering, sound exposition, verbal description, etc, etc. A veritable ‘hit and run making’ of theatre. We grouped off to work our accumulated collections of experiences and emotions around the concept of...