Saturday, 8 February 2014

Are you lonesome tonight? Scratch.


Are you lonesome tonight? The important of scratch.

The deadline is approaching and however 'fun' it may be to be a in room running around inside my imagination, creating game structures for people to play. I need people to play them.

I did two scratches recently:

The first as part of performance festival 'Escape with Cape' hosted by Cape Theatre at the new performance venue - LIFT Ophelia in Dalston. I was performing alongside the wonderful
 Chris Brett Bailey.

I was nervous - this is a running theme. I had increased my 10 minutes to 30. Created the game mechanic which the show hangs on, but I had no idea if it would work, communicate anything that I wanted it to or be in anyway interesting.

The evening was busy - busy for an contemporary doesn't really fit in a box performance night - with an audience of about 35 people. The feedback was good, the game is fun and it communicates some of the things I'm aiming for and I felt much less sick afterwards. 


I then scratched again the following weekend at Who the fuck is Alice at Vogue Fabrics - Dalston, alongside Sh!t Theatre, Figs in Wigs, Lucy Hutson and Laura Dee Milnes. The night was brilliant, busy with a fantastic atmosphere. I felt very proud to be part of such a stirling line up. It is always good to scratch in such quick succession, so you can play with the structure of sections and experiment with new ideas.








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