River Sky or should it be Sky River or Skyriver or Skryver?
I have completed this year’s work on The House but I will continue to write about it on the poor theatres blog in the section called Working Diary – The House. There is a lot to say now that it is out of the box so to speak. If you are interested you can read a response from an audience member here. There is also a review of the piece by Elaine Aston here.
It isn’t the end of the performances because we will be going to the University of Warwick in January to play it at at the Gendered Citizenship Conference.
Jenny and I will be giving a keynote speech – well she will do most of the talking and I will perform the show. We will also be playing it at Axis Arts Centre in Crewe on 21 January – details and links will be posted here soon. Then of course we want to keep playing it and sharing the research work we have been doing so we are looking out for opportunities for this, so if you are reading this and you have seen the show and can conceive its possiblities or you have heard about it and would like to see it just let me know either via this website or via the poortheatres blog and we will be happy to work out how that might be possible.
In the meantime I am now going to pick up the pace with the Heron Corn Mill Residency work – yet to get a title – maybe River Sky – I quite like that but we’ll see. I will be there until Easter working between three and four days a week whilst teaching the Devised Theatre course at Manchester University and working with Salford University on the Tank Tram Project – a World War One themed project with students, schools, a tram museum and some engineering students. More of that later when it gets off the ground.
So if you are passing along the A6 between Carnforth and Milnthorpe on your way to the lakes or even Scotland and if you have the time, please pop in. I am there now for the next three weeks and from mid January till Easter. Thanks for reading.