It is now the day after our showing at PACT as a part of Vacant Room. Shit was so cash. We presented a full rehearsed reading of Soothsayers, complete with fire and flowers, bandages and blood. (And the chalk square too. It made it. Look at those blurry pictures!) After 10 days in the space all up across about a month of thinking about the work, to have built a first draft from scratch feels pretty great.
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Questions we need answered. Still. More things to think about.
1. Did you follow the story in each of the acts and did you get a sense of the external "disaster/catastrophe"?
2. Was this enough to sustain your interest over three separate acts?
3. We're trying to deal with a very real artistic crisis of what right we have to consume and present images and assumptions about experiences that aren't ours, we have tried to include this ethical problem of "distance" in the work itself. Did you get a sense of this? And if not, how would you imagine we could confront it?
4. Where to from here? Where could this work go, what grants, theatres, spaces, residencies, festivals, anything that you guys could suggest in terms of continuing this work's development and aiming for production late next year/early 2013.
5. What should we read/watch/attend/look at/experience that you think could help the project, and did it remind you of anything?
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We're going to keep developing Soothsayers. But mad thanks to PACT: Julie, Cat, Michael, Erica and Joe for the opportunity and support. Our killer team of performers across the weeks: Annie Savage, Troy Reid, Wade Briggs, Alex Millwood, Jennifer Medway, Abe Mitchell, Kirby Medway, Brooke Ellen Louttit, Megan Holloway, Felicity Tchorlian, Theresa Mullan and Jackson Davis. And our brilliant mentor Halcyon Macleod.
We'll get more sexy photos up soon. But now... bring on to Gobbledygook and Debris and The Sydney Fringe!
Mark x
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