June Project Update from our Artistic Director Dinos Aristidou

09 June 2020

 

We entered this strange and challenging time just at the point in the project when we were
about to starting preparing our 6 satellite performances, ready to be presented in libraries,
museums, community and residential settings. These satellites were performances of real
life stories together with presentations of creative writing that had been written during
workshops in response to these stories. This was also in preparation for our final live theatre
piece which was going to be staged and shown in September.

It was immediately clear that neither the satellites nor the final performance could be
prepared or presented in front of a live audience. It was decided that we would therefore
try and develop the satellites as audio and film performances and that the final piece of
theatre would be presented digitally.

We contacted the performers, writers and those who had expressed an interest in
performing to see if they were still interested in taking part either by phone or online. The
response was overwhelming, so a huge thank you to all those who are currently working on
the satellites and who have recorded themselves reading or performing their creative
responses.

We now have 21 audio recordings of creative writing and 18 performers in rehearsal online
working on the real life stories. These will be shared through our website in the coming
weeks.

Thanks also to those of you who responded to the ‘Create at Home’ tasks related to the
project. We will also be sharing some of the wonderful writing that has come about through
those.

Stay safe and stay creative

Dinos Aristidou
Artistic director
June 2020