Moving On
Hello all
I've just moved house! It's all exciting and nice and new and the people are lovely. It's funny though. I've just got here and one of the people has decided to move out (nothing to do with me or the house or the girls, he's just not the shared house type of guy) and so I'm already on the selection commitee for the new housemate! Plus, I get to move into one of the bigger rooms which is awesome. I love the girls I'm with. There's Kasia, who I worked with on the show I just did with The Wonder Club (did I talk about that?... *checks*... no I didn't. I'll talk about that in a bit!) Anyway, she's brilliant. Realy chilled and one of the nicest people I've met. Also she has a bunny, which is amazing because she's like the softest, fluffiest, nicest pet I've had the pleasure of knowing. Becky is also amazing. She does drama and sociology at uni and is just about the most energetic person ever. The house is big and lush and I feel really chilled and relaxed here, so here's hoping I'll be staying put for a bit.
So, a little look back before a look forward. The Wonder Club put on their second show, "At Tether's End" in December (my first with them.) It was a rip-roaring success, and the audience reaction was brilliant. I played the doctor, who had a little surgery where the audience could come to be diagnosed. There was also an amazing bit where I had lost something in my surgery. My surgery was filled with paper all over the floor and all over the furniture and I made the audience get down on their hands and knees to look for it. It was a prime opportunity for me to go a bit crazy and throw myself around the room, screaming and crying and generally losing my mind. Very liberating! Anyway, we're now proposing projects and I've been told Michelle has three projects in mind for the coming year/beginning of next year, one of which we were discusing today and involves a future where people's dreams and memories are stolen - quite a radical departure from the Grimm's fairy tale of the first show and the Victorian setting of the second!
Jobwise, I'm still temping, but pretty sure I'll be "released" (their bizarre word for fired) soon, as they've just made a load of redundancies. I think I've come to the decision that I'm going to go back to bar work and shift-based working patterns as I'm bored of working 9-5 and I think it makes me feel more panicked and stressed to have such a constricting routine. I also want to really focus on my performance stuff this year as I feel like I want to make some headway towards doing it for some sort of payment and hopefully get further towards ekeing out a whole living/career from it. As well as The Wonder Club, Sedated By A Brick (SBAB) are continuing. We've got a work in progress showing in April as part of a theatrelab programme in Bath, where we get to use the theatre and it's resources for four days. We're hoping from that to maybe get a whole show or something of the like for later in the year. We're also working on old material in new contexts and thinking about doing some festivals over the Summer. We've proposed for Mayfest (a big theatre festival in Bristol) so we'll see whether we get that, and also just going to apply for lots of commission calls etc. to see what we can do. I've also proposed my dissertation piece for Mayfest so if we get that, Tara will be coming over to reprise our chair throwing! Last but not least, my friend China and I are going to work on a couple of things together; firstly, The Amazing Interludes, an idea we've had for years but not got round to doing, involving those moments in your day where you just have an awesome, momentous pause or break. We're also thinking about doing the performance precis process (a working title I've just made up), where we make very quick performative summaries of performances we've just seen and perform them to the audience either after the show or as they leave the auditorium. PLUS, maybe I might do some work of my own as well. It's all very exciting and I am fully expecting the year ahead to bring some excellent things (as well as some not so excellent - might as well be realistic!)
Here's lots of love to all of you and I hope that the potential this year has for you comes to fruition and you all have an amazing time.
Much love
Gareth
Xx
I've just moved house! It's all exciting and nice and new and the people are lovely. It's funny though. I've just got here and one of the people has decided to move out (nothing to do with me or the house or the girls, he's just not the shared house type of guy) and so I'm already on the selection commitee for the new housemate! Plus, I get to move into one of the bigger rooms which is awesome. I love the girls I'm with. There's Kasia, who I worked with on the show I just did with The Wonder Club (did I talk about that?... *checks*... no I didn't. I'll talk about that in a bit!) Anyway, she's brilliant. Realy chilled and one of the nicest people I've met. Also she has a bunny, which is amazing because she's like the softest, fluffiest, nicest pet I've had the pleasure of knowing. Becky is also amazing. She does drama and sociology at uni and is just about the most energetic person ever. The house is big and lush and I feel really chilled and relaxed here, so here's hoping I'll be staying put for a bit.
So, a little look back before a look forward. The Wonder Club put on their second show, "At Tether's End" in December (my first with them.) It was a rip-roaring success, and the audience reaction was brilliant. I played the doctor, who had a little surgery where the audience could come to be diagnosed. There was also an amazing bit where I had lost something in my surgery. My surgery was filled with paper all over the floor and all over the furniture and I made the audience get down on their hands and knees to look for it. It was a prime opportunity for me to go a bit crazy and throw myself around the room, screaming and crying and generally losing my mind. Very liberating! Anyway, we're now proposing projects and I've been told Michelle has three projects in mind for the coming year/beginning of next year, one of which we were discusing today and involves a future where people's dreams and memories are stolen - quite a radical departure from the Grimm's fairy tale of the first show and the Victorian setting of the second!
Jobwise, I'm still temping, but pretty sure I'll be "released" (their bizarre word for fired) soon, as they've just made a load of redundancies. I think I've come to the decision that I'm going to go back to bar work and shift-based working patterns as I'm bored of working 9-5 and I think it makes me feel more panicked and stressed to have such a constricting routine. I also want to really focus on my performance stuff this year as I feel like I want to make some headway towards doing it for some sort of payment and hopefully get further towards ekeing out a whole living/career from it. As well as The Wonder Club, Sedated By A Brick (SBAB) are continuing. We've got a work in progress showing in April as part of a theatrelab programme in Bath, where we get to use the theatre and it's resources for four days. We're hoping from that to maybe get a whole show or something of the like for later in the year. We're also working on old material in new contexts and thinking about doing some festivals over the Summer. We've proposed for Mayfest (a big theatre festival in Bristol) so we'll see whether we get that, and also just going to apply for lots of commission calls etc. to see what we can do. I've also proposed my dissertation piece for Mayfest so if we get that, Tara will be coming over to reprise our chair throwing! Last but not least, my friend China and I are going to work on a couple of things together; firstly, The Amazing Interludes, an idea we've had for years but not got round to doing, involving those moments in your day where you just have an awesome, momentous pause or break. We're also thinking about doing the performance precis process (a working title I've just made up), where we make very quick performative summaries of performances we've just seen and perform them to the audience either after the show or as they leave the auditorium. PLUS, maybe I might do some work of my own as well. It's all very exciting and I am fully expecting the year ahead to bring some excellent things (as well as some not so excellent - might as well be realistic!)
Here's lots of love to all of you and I hope that the potential this year has for you comes to fruition and you all have an amazing time.
Much love
Gareth
Xx