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Incidents

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:

Frontman at Forest Fringe Edinburgh

As part of our Frontman process we’ll be showing some ideas we’re working on at Forest Fringe

Tuesday 17th Aug at 4pm

Its part of the festival of secrets so its not in the programme.

See you there!

and don’t forget you can see us performing ‘A Western’ at Kilkenny Arts Festival wed 11th and thur 12th Aug

Thoughts from 1-1 Festival at BAC part 5

When i was 19 i got a job at a factory in Guildford which made steam wallpaper strippers.

My role consisted of taking short aluminium rods from a box on my right, pressing a foot peddle that started a spinning band of sandpaper, then milling a slight bevel on to each end of the rod.

I would then place the rod in another box to my left. I had to complete a certain number of boxes each hour. Despite the presence of a charming, german girl with whom i chatted at lunch, i lasted just 3 days at the job.

Thoughts from 1-1 Festival at BAC part 4

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.

Thoughts from 1-1 Festival at BAC part 2

Doing these performances has made me remeber something written by Harun Morrison about them i am quoting it in full here but you can read the original - here.

SATURDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2008

The Face Game & The First Time / Edward Rapley / 8th - 10th August 2008 / (Forest Fringe) Edinburgh Festival 2008

Thoughts from 1-1 Festival at BAC

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.

upcoming performances

A Western

11th and 12th August – Kilkenny Festival, Kytelers Inn, Ireland at 6:30pm, doors open 6pm

13th, 14th and 15th September – Tobacco Factory bar, Bristol

Forest Fringe Opportunities

You can get involved with The Forest Fringe HERE!

Residence Look Club

Look Club is to shows as Book Club is to books: You all watch the same show and at some point meet up and discuss it.

Any Residence member can suggest a show to see and a time to discuss it, they are then responsible for telling people about it, turning up, and providing tea & biscuits.

If you want to attend the only thing you need to do is to see the show in question.

*The next Look Club is at 7pm Friday 11th June at The Milk Bar, 11 St Nicholas Street, Bristol. We will be discussing Far Away which is running at the Bristol Old Vic for 3 more nights.*

Who Knows Where - A 3 Point Manifesto

I am in the happy position of having many ideas for how to develop my latest show, and final part of the Self Trilogy: Who Knows Where.

Except me to wobble, be enveloped in the blackness, wash my own skin, converse with a dead rat and more!

I am happy with the response to the show. Which have included two positive reviews and my very first bad review! Got to keep things balanced.