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Thoughts from 1-1 Festival at BAC part 3

What does it all mean?

I've been thinking on my day off about the nature of one-on-one or indeed many-on-one theatre.

I think there is some interesting work and the artists i have spoken to have a clear vision of what their individual shows are trying to communicate. Which is great, because sometimes in theatre ideas get a bit woolly, and there just isn't any room for fluff in a 1-1 show.

Dreaming of Texas

The idea of Texas has been firmly etched in James and my memories since 2005 when we began talking and thinking about Westerns. It seemed to occupy a space in both our minds and it seemed so familiar….heat, long shadows, cowboys and fake blood. Despite never having set foot in the US, let alone Texas we made a show about Westerns, or rather, a show about the memory of an imagined Western.

Residence in Residence

Start: 11/09/2009 20:00

End: 12/09/2009 23:59

From Friday 11th to Saturday 12th September, Residence will be moving in to the Tobacco Factory and calling it home. They'll be hosting drinks, dinner and then a breakfast to recover the morning after the night before. Between the food and the friendly chat there will be discussion and debate about theatre, work-in-progress showings, open rehearsals and the opportunity to meet other theatre-makers and audiences.

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Prototype 6

Dear reader I am very tired, so please much allowances for me.

Just back from another excellent Prototype at the Tobacco Factory Theatre.

Collecting more Claims To Fame at Greenroom and Mayfest

Start: 24/04/2009 19:00

End: 16/05/2009 18:00

Over the next few weeks I will be touring the country (well Manchester and then back home to Bristol) collecting people's favourite famous encounter as part of my new work, Claim To Fame, which I will showing at Greenrom Maanchester and at Bristol Old Vic and the Tobacco Factory Theatre in Bristol as part of this years Mayfest. So if you haven't yet told me about the time you shared a sandwich with Ulrika Johnson then here's your chance...

Institutional FAIL

I do bang on but Bristol is AMAZING- I get to make work in a city where every relevant cultural institution is not just forward thinking but totally supportive. With venues like The Tobacco Factory, Arnolfini and fingers crossed the Bristol Old Vic willing to give not just words and funding-tick-box style support but active encouragement by providing their skills, time and resources to develop the work of emerging artists from a wide range of backgrounds.

Rapley Reviews: Prototype- Experiments in Theatre

Again the good people of the Tobacco Factory Theatre have given us a stormingly successful Prototype. In case you don't know this is a night of work in progress with feedback at the end and you can read what I've said about all the others here.

Go See At Tether's End, Lyn Gardner Says so...

That's right:

"I've heard good things about The Wonder Club, one of Bristol's resident companies, which is staging a piece called At Tether's End for just four performances [this] week."

The Wonder Club have been mentioned not just once but twice in the past month on the What To See This Week posts on Lyn's Blog.

Residence- Bristols performance mafia, in a really positive way.

I have just returned from Prototype at The Tobacco Factory where 3 of the 6 performances were by members of Residence and not only did we all rocked in our own special ways, but we rocked in an absolute sense too.

But this post isn't just gratuitous self congratulation, there is a serious point to be made about the benefits of a being a member of a collective such as Residence...

Now usually scratch night feedback, from other artists, comes in the form of statement to the effect of:

"Hi, that was great, but it would have been much better if you had made it more like the kind of work I make."

Summer projects

I am currently spending the summer running lots of different summer schools for various different ages and directing a great new live art piece called "Gimme the Beat Girls" a musical and theatrical journey invoking the spirit of the lost voices of the female beat poets. It will be performed as a work in progress at Prototype at the Tobacco factory theatre www.tobaccofactorytheatre.co.uk Sept 7th. More soon..