A WORK-IN-PROGRESS, ABOUT WORK, FORMALLY KNOWN AS ‘WORK’
TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR NEXT WORK-IN-PROGRESS PERFORMANCES
JULY 30TH / 31ST @ CAMDEN PEOPLE’S THEATRE
BABY STEPS
So here’s the coo… A couple of years ago I decided I wanted to write about all the different jobs I’ve done over the years, there’s been a few. I went through each job I ever did and worked out what stories I could tell, I then put that into a body of work, which I called ‘WORK.’ Imaginative, I know.
I spoke to Camden People’s Theatre, who were up for letting explore the idea further, in view of attempting to make a show out of it.
TODDLER TIME
I did a 15 minute scratch of some of the material I’d written at CPT. With the help of Lucy Atkinson (who produced my first solo show, A Tale From the Bedsit, in 2013) I wrote an Arts Council grant to get some dough, for a bit of R&D. I assembled a top team of collaborators to help me out, including producer Ellie Barr. In December 2019, we done another scratch, a bit longer this time, at CPT again, then put an hour-long preview together, for a show at VAULTS Festival in February. Then COVID. Then nothing.
TEENAGE STROP
I decided to leave the show for a bit, I wasn’t fully happy with it, probably a good thing, though as COVID shelved everything anyway, BASTARD!
ADULTHOOD BUT WITH A LONG WAY TO GO
Until I got the itch again about nine months later…
So here we are now, April 2021 and tickets have just gone on sale for the next work-in-progress showings at CPT. The show now has a new name, Make Your Own Bed and Hope for the Best, which I think best sums up what the show is about, in terms my journey in it.
Last November, 2020, I went back watched all the scratches, read the material and re-wrote lots of it, I then decided to film each one and stick it up online as part of the development.
It’s very much still being developed, I’ve ended writing a load more material and I’m now wondering how the faaaack I’m gonna fit it all in but then, that’s part of the fun, isn’t it.
You can have a butchers at the journey so far, all the performances and then the story uploads, then, if you like it, come and see me do it live!
This is what was on this page before. Before the re-brand,re-birth and re-start.
Work is my third solo show, currently being developed with support from Arts Council England and Camden People’s Theatre.
As it stands, it’s a show where I talk about all the different jobs that I’ve had, most of which were low-paid. It’s a combination of storytelling, looping, beatbox and rap.
I’ve always been interested in the idea, that if you’re doing some meaningful, which makes use of any inherent / developed skills you have, you will inevitably become a much better worker, with the wider impact of this, being that you make a greater contribution to society.
In December 2019, I underwent a period of research and development at Camden People’s Theatre, where I worked with Conrad Murray on the music side, Danielle Meehan as movement director, Roger Robinson on themes and Brain Logan, with dramaturgy. The process was also documented by Paraellel Motion Media
In January 2020, I did an hour-long, work-in-progress performance at the Vaults Festival, however, die to COVID my previews at Camden People’s Theatre were cancelled. As it stands, the show is on hold, however, I’m hoping to pick back up later this year.
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