Idea: go check out an experimental piece of theatre, creative development, warehouse production or work in progress. If my experience last night was anything to go by, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Wednesday night, a theatre company's launch party for 2011, last night Miss Feathers was off to see a play. It's been a busy week! The Strangers Project 2. Who the hell are you? is a creative development piece performed by teenagers at atyp. This is an international script writing and performance project, which is a taste of what will come in 2011 when they have finalised their piece.
You could tell that these teenagers had devised this piece themselves, with collaboration with other teenagers in other countries. There were many mentions of facebook, as it was one if the main tools, alongside skype, that they used to communicate with the other theatre companies and to devise their work. Lots of mentions of relationship status updates of "it's complicated," the process of accepting and ignoring friend requests and relationship breakdowns all online. CCTV was one of the themes that kept coming up from the theatre group in Wales, so the Sydney group decided to include a piece about that and the idea of Big Brother. There was a poem/ song about McDonalds and there were a few songs that they sung about the notion of strangers, connecting with one another and communication.
If they manage to get funding this will turn into a full scale production in 2011. Here's hoping to that! The impromptu Q & A last night was great, as we got to hear all about the creative processes behind it. We found out that some pieces of dialogue were straight from the strangers2 facebook page that they've all been chatting on. Such an interesting and relevant piece of theatre. If you get the chance, check it out tonight!
I heard True West is worth seeing at the moment too.
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