New project in development…

We’ve started work on a new production, currently untitled, but codenamed ‘hotelproject’.  The details are pretty under wraps still, but we’ve got a team of 10 artists working away creating new material for a site-specific performance destined to to be performed in hotels.  

Initial R&D was carried out in August in Hotels up and down the country, as well as in Greece (by our Greek scenographers).  We’d like to thank the following hotels for their support by providing their rooms free of charge: Malmaison Birmingham and Edinburgh, City Inn London.

We’ve got big plans for this project, so watch this space for future developments…

IETM in Ghent

Katie is off to Ghent in Belgium (by train of course) in a couple of weeks time, to attend the IETM meeting.  As part of the conference she will be moderating a session on ‘one-to-one’ theatre.

Pilot – a mixed bag

Pilot #12 went down well on Thursday night, the audience was almost full, and people seemed to be enjoying themselves on the whole.  The performances were, as ever, a mixed bag.  The number of applicants for this event, and the breadth, style, and level of maturity of the material both proposed and performed shows the need for events like this.  And also for several events like this, to allow for Pilot to show the slightly higher calibre of w-i-p, but for there to still be support and an event for work being made by artists fresh out of training (which would necessarily be ‘younger’).

My highlight was Edward Rapley’s performance (the company is called the Licensees).  It was incredibly bold and brave, stripped back and actually honest.  He threw a jug of water over the audience, and everyone was glad of it, and finished by "offering himself as a sacrifice" and jumping off the top of a ladder.  It was hilarious.  The funniest thing for me was that he was friends with my younger brother at school, and used to come round my house as a kid.  Small world.

Katie