Only 5 days to go until the development week for My City...
I can confirm that, along with Director Miguel Angel Gutiérrez and Florencia García Chafuén, I will be working with musician Ewan Macintyre of Southern Tenant Folk Union and Round String Theatre.
I have been given a list of things to get from Miguel Angel and have spent the past few weeks perusing junk sites, car boot sales and second hand shops collecting curious objects from old oil cans to plastic dolls, gloves to 1950s film projectors. I'm curious to see what's going to get used and how! We've also been told to read Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities to inspire us in our creation of worlds and stories within those worlds. It's a really great book; there are some fantastical and amazing places, all under different names such as "cities & eyes" or "cities & the sky, described by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. We're also going to bring a story that's close to us, maybe a traditional story or one from our childhood, and think of ways to share it; through music, dance, puppetry, whatever! I've got some ideas, but I haven't settled on anything yet. It's promising to be a really interesting week of sharing stories, images, ideas and, most importantly, taking My City close to being a finished piece.
This week is not only an exciting time of preparation for next; it's also Manipulate Festival at the Traverse Theatre and Summerhall. Manipulate is a festival of visual theatre and animation. Full of unusual performances; funny, sad, moving and wacky; it is a week of inspirational theatre. I have already seen To The End of Love by the TIP Connection and I thought it was really good. It was a show without any words, but it's use of popular music (in English or in other languages) was incredibly powerful. Fever was played in a language unrecognisable to me upon listening to it, but I knew the words as it played and understood so much more meaning in the scene because of it. There were also some great images; the cover of the programme is an image taken from the show. Silken nighties were used to represent the ex wives of her new husband. Hooped around the bottom, they were wafted around eerily. This looked great, but there was a little too much wafting for my liking. Despite slow moments, overall I did enjoy it. I'm very excited about seeing The Odyssey by The Paper Cinema tomorrow, Paper Cut by Yael Rasooly on Thursday and Final Space, Ocean Flight, Myth & Infrastructure by Cloud Eye Control. Then I'll be seeing Snapshots: Creation & Play - Platform Performance on Saturday which will be very interesting indeed - all before Miguel Angel arrives on Sunday! In between this I am looking after my dear darling, nearly 3 month old, daughter who, fortunately, is too young to get covered in glue and string while I make my puppets this week!
Keep your eyes on here for news of how the development week went.
I can confirm that, along with Director Miguel Angel Gutiérrez and Florencia García Chafuén, I will be working with musician Ewan Macintyre of Southern Tenant Folk Union and Round String Theatre.
I have been given a list of things to get from Miguel Angel and have spent the past few weeks perusing junk sites, car boot sales and second hand shops collecting curious objects from old oil cans to plastic dolls, gloves to 1950s film projectors. I'm curious to see what's going to get used and how! We've also been told to read Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities to inspire us in our creation of worlds and stories within those worlds. It's a really great book; there are some fantastical and amazing places, all under different names such as "cities & eyes" or "cities & the sky, described by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. We're also going to bring a story that's close to us, maybe a traditional story or one from our childhood, and think of ways to share it; through music, dance, puppetry, whatever! I've got some ideas, but I haven't settled on anything yet. It's promising to be a really interesting week of sharing stories, images, ideas and, most importantly, taking My City close to being a finished piece.
This week is not only an exciting time of preparation for next; it's also Manipulate Festival at the Traverse Theatre and Summerhall. Manipulate is a festival of visual theatre and animation. Full of unusual performances; funny, sad, moving and wacky; it is a week of inspirational theatre. I have already seen To The End of Love by the TIP Connection and I thought it was really good. It was a show without any words, but it's use of popular music (in English or in other languages) was incredibly powerful. Fever was played in a language unrecognisable to me upon listening to it, but I knew the words as it played and understood so much more meaning in the scene because of it. There were also some great images; the cover of the programme is an image taken from the show. Silken nighties were used to represent the ex wives of her new husband. Hooped around the bottom, they were wafted around eerily. This looked great, but there was a little too much wafting for my liking. Despite slow moments, overall I did enjoy it. I'm very excited about seeing The Odyssey by The Paper Cinema tomorrow, Paper Cut by Yael Rasooly on Thursday and Final Space, Ocean Flight, Myth & Infrastructure by Cloud Eye Control. Then I'll be seeing Snapshots: Creation & Play - Platform Performance on Saturday which will be very interesting indeed - all before Miguel Angel arrives on Sunday! In between this I am looking after my dear darling, nearly 3 month old, daughter who, fortunately, is too young to get covered in glue and string while I make my puppets this week!
Keep your eyes on here for news of how the development week went.
