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At the moment I'm spending a lot of my time exploring how the digital space can provide actual encounters in real time and space. That's what I'm missing about theatre - or at least some of what I'm missing.
You'll find a few of these experiments below. This first film, though, was already long into preparation before, you know, all this. We filmed it a few weeks before lockdown and it's been fascinating to see how the current context has seen its meanings change, while its content remains exactly the same. |
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Palm Reading
Commissioned by Absolutely Cultured and Northern Broadsides Two people meet in real life for the first time since lockdown. One is played by you. The other is played by someone you’ve never met. |
Palm Reading is a live online performance encounter for you and a stranger. Meeting one another for the first time through this script, you’ll experience closeness and distance in a whole new set of ways.
To experience Palm Reading, you’ll need to find a partner. You could ask around via your own social media, or you could find someone through the comments on YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter . Then just download the document, and make sure you read the instructions a few hours in advance.
Palm Reading will be available to download here from 10am on 4th June.
To experience Palm Reading, you’ll need to find a partner. You could ask around via your own social media, or you could find someone through the comments on YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter . Then just download the document, and make sure you read the instructions a few hours in advance.
Palm Reading will be available to download here from 10am on 4th June.
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The second film in the These Hills Are Ours series - A Song for Clougha Pike - will be released on Thursday 11th June at 8pm. You can watch it here, or click through and subscribe to my channel on YouTube.
The third and fourth films are indefinitely postponed. We will make them, just as soon as it's possible to gather a community together to sing, and escape together to the hills. |
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An Exchange of Views (left) was made on my phone in response to a request from Beaford.
They wanted something optimistic that would encourage their community to get outside. I was more than happy to attempt something stupid in order to provide that. This was also the first thing I made under lockdown, the first attempt at finding a quality of exchange and interaction in digital media. Please watch and share your views. |
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Coming soon:
For Pitlochry Festival Theatre I've written a short piece called Recovery, part of their Shades of Tay season. You phone a number and listen to a voicemail message. Maybe you'll leave a reply, maybe you won't.
This is the most analogue piece of performance imaginable.
I'll post the phone number here as soon as I have it.
For more of this sort of thing, sign up for my Patreon.
For Pitlochry Festival Theatre I've written a short piece called Recovery, part of their Shades of Tay season. You phone a number and listen to a voicemail message. Maybe you'll leave a reply, maybe you won't.
This is the most analogue piece of performance imaginable.
I'll post the phone number here as soon as I have it.
For more of this sort of thing, sign up for my Patreon.
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Since you're here, I may as well draw attention to the fact that several of my extant theatre shows are available to view online free.
On your left there is Going Viral, my Fringe First-winning 2015 show about a global pandemic. Below are The Price of Everything and How to Occupy an Oil Rig. Click through for full credits. |
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