Today I had an informal meeting in The Interval with the previously mentioned Kieron Bryan. I've made an mp3 recording that I'm planning on editing down and posting up as soon as I've handed in the essay I'm currently working on, but will briefly go through some of the things we talked about (before getting back to the mountainous pile of books and depressingly slow-rising word-count in front of me).
Kieron is making a short, news-style TV piece as part of his broadcast journalism MA, and would like to do a feature on theatre two point oh #, focussing on our first workshop. This is something I'll have to devote more time to in a later post, but we're planning on holding the first of a series of workshops from next weekend. First of all though, we have to wait for confirmation from specific venues, and I can't really organise any of the other elements until my piece of assessed work has decided to finish itself and be handed in; we will be giving at least 48 hours notice though, and it won't matter if those wishing to be involved can't make it along to the first public workshop - there will be plenty more!
Back to our conversation; we talked more about the production, the workshops, the selection method, and a lot of stuff I haven't yet gone into on here (yet!) and agreed that it would be great for Kieron to continue documenting the process as it progresses to its culmination, producing a short documentary at the end to be released on Al Gore's Current TV.
We talked about some of the concepts that might be explored and I suppose it's at this point that I might as well reveal one of the core themes for the initial workshops: surveillance. Given that the whole creative process will be viewable through (selected) video clips, images, and audio recordings, the spread of CCTV and being watched anonymously, could be quite an intriguing idea with which to spark off improvisation and creation.
Anyway, you won't hear from me now until a certain 3,000 words are written, printed out, and safely in the posession of the Dept. of French, but please let us know what you think about the possibilities for the workshops, and watch this space.
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