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I spend a lot of my time teaching people how to make a piece of work from scratch. I am finding that I know less and less about this the more I make my own work. So it is now a year since I was asked to think about doing something for Heron Corn Mill as part of my residency …
I have been making contacts towards a new work that is inspired by the writing of local Milnthorpe/Arnside novelist Constance Holme.
Enter the sixth lady (Edith) Constance Holme (Punchard) “The sea was always there and though it came quietly perhaps and inoffensively there would be many a night when it would come like a beast of prey, ravening its path between narrow shores, devouring the watery desert.” Constance Holme “The Lonely Plough” The last woman to enter the landscape has written …
Working at Heron Corn Mill requires a journey along a short stretch of the M6 between Preston and the Carnforth/Morecambe turn off. This usually straightforward section follows a long and sometimes frustrating stretch along the A59 between Southport and Preston. I have been thinking about roads, rivers, pathways and junctures and the swell of cross-river – where the water …
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 …