Success.

Ok, so here starts theatre two point oh. We've now been officially selected to take a slot at the University of Sheffield Drama Studio, although we're still not sure exactly when (but probably either the week 8 slot (Wed 23rd to Sat 26th April 2008) or, as I'm starting to think more likely, the slot for week 10 (Wed 7th to Sat 10th May 2008). Of course I could be completely wrong and they'll have chosen to give us the beginning of February, but that would just be a tiny bit sadistic.

So who is "they"? Well, this project is a development within Sheffield University Theatre Company, aka suTCo. We aim to be a collective within the wider company, but in a way that'll include as many people as possible from both inside and outside. This is a big part of what we aim to do with this project, to involve the audience, the people who will come to see this production, from right now.

This means that you, the potential audience (because even if you can't make the final performance, you'll be able to watch it on t'internet when it's all completed), will be able to see what we're getting up to in rehearsals, and both comment on what we're doing, and tell us what we should be doing. You can give us new ideas, and comment on our what we're doing already, all through the medium of this wonderful thing we like to call the web.

These are the first of hopefully many, many posts, and as soon as we have added new people to the collective you'll be hearing from more people than just "us" (in truth there is currently just me, Tom Szekeres, at present).

Right well anyway, I'm going to finish my first proper text-based post with a little quote, that gives you some hint of where the inspiration for all of this comes from...

"The director has already achieved the greatest degree of power he has ever had in history. And our aim is to move beyond that situation by creating a form of theatre where it will be possible for everyone to collaborate without there being directors, technicians, and so on, in the old sense." - Ariane Mnouchkine, June 1991

Sound.