2014 in Numbers

73 public performances

22 performances of How to Occupy an Oil Rig
during 1 tour
across 18 venues
in 5 weeks

14 performances of The Price of Everything
Across 13 venues
in 4 countries
and 2 continents

4 versions of Story Hunt created for:
5 performances in Margate
12 performances in Northampton
4 performances in Heckmondwike
6 performances in Middlesbrough
Totalling 19581 words
4 days sitting in a tent swapping stories for cups of tea

3 miscellaneous cabaret gigs

2 scratches of Going Viral (next year's Edinburgh show)
8 months apart
10 minutes of material made for the first one, of which
none will be in the show
25 minutes of material made for the second, of which maybe
5-10 will make the cut
17 research meetings/interviews with academics and clinicians
1 grant application (successful) (to the Wellcome Trust)

2 versions of The Six O'Clock News
1 of them at six o'clock (Oxford)
1 of them at nine o'clock (Lancaster)

3 performances of We're Stuck (in which, gloriously, I'm a performer exempt from the need to make the overarching decisions)
4 days of rehearsal on We're Stuck
5 schools workshop days
2 other R&D days
1 Fun Palace

4 performances of Wonderstruck (in which I didn't perform, so don't come at me with "but that makes 77")
9 songs
11 spoken word pieces
5 poems
all of these are in separate files, so I'm going to just guess the total at around 6000 words, all of them co-written with either Boff Whalley (who wrote the songs and adjusted the lyrics accordingly), Josh Coates (who was associate artist on the project) or the performer of the text in question (very often both of the latter two)
107 performers
5 choirs
4 animal heads

3 unsuccessful pitches/interviews/applications

2 drafts of Error 404 (for Polka Theatre, March 2015)
draft one: 6424 words (way too long)
draft two: 5869 words ( a bit too long)
common to both drafts: the first 800 words, give or take
8.5 days R&D
11 days in primary schools running philosophy sessions
draft three due at the end of January

1 commissioned script, for Royal and Derngate's community and youth companies
13587 words

4 shows worked on as director, dramaturg, or similar: Renationalisation (Common Wealth), Heroes (Dick Bonham), Too Much Too Young (Jack Bennett) and Fat Man (Move to Stand)

43 teaching days
4 full-length student shows mentored/supervised
15 short student shows mentored/supervised

5 colds
1 mild concussion
1 hurricane

0 weddings, funerals or christenings (a years-old record in all columns)

1 football match attended
the first since Nick died
the first without Nick for about ten years
3-0 Middlesbrough's margin of victory

8 non-weekend days off (estimate)

7 weekends off (not an estimate)

Around a dozen moments of feeling "actually, that went quite well"

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