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I am looking for Incident Books or excerpts from Incident Books from pubs and bars across the UK.

I want to read them out as a performance: a litany of drunkenness and violence.

All names & locations will be changed to protect those involved. All submissions will be treated in confidence.

If you have access to an Incident Book but cannot send it to me you can email photos of interesting pages, just get in touch here.

You can also post Incident Books directly to Residence:

I will be performing at The Cube for Ausform's 1st birthday.

New material, exclusive, never the same show once!
It has been one year!

RITUAL!

Suddenly it all makes more sense. I was thinking between shows about how uncomfortable i was with my previous analysis. Then this idea came to me: the whole thing with the one-on-one shows makes more sense if viewed as a rediscovery of the power of personal ritual.

In the UK we do not have powerful rites of passage or initiations, our rituals such as they are have become hollow and abstracted. Such as collecting exam results from the headteacher. A cursory handshake which changes nothing.

I do these two games, in one (The First Thing) i open my eyes and say the first thing that comes into my head about the person sat in front of me, in the other (Your Turn) they have a minute to say whatever they want to me.

It really struck me that the very first thing that comes into my head is often banal, or even offensive, and that somehow they are a simplification or a reduction of the person.

This was re-enforced by people saying amazing things to me in the second game, who if they had come to The First Thing would have probably met with a fairly bland response.

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