So Delay was presented at the Sydney Fringe. It was at the Old 505 Theatre in Newtown.
I was in Sydney as my short film What It Feels Like won the International Documentary Award at the Focus On Ability Film Festival. I was there for 2 weeks, thanks to the festival and took the opportunity to present Delay at the Sydney Fringe. I has an awesome time! Would love to go back and do it again sometime.
More news on 2 more performances of Delay real soon.
Please to announce I will be presenting a Private Play outside of the UK for the very first time. Delay will be at the Sydney Fringe Festival in September! I’ll blog about how and why I will be in Sydney later. It’s a pretty cool story!!
September 2 – September 14 2018
Old 505 Theatre, Sydney Australia
Part of the Sydney Fringe Festival at the Archie Rose Touring Hub.
Delay is a show in a Zine and will take place in the foyer area of the Old 505 Theatre.
Venue
Old 505 Theatre
5 Eliza St
Newtown
NSW 2042
Australia
The new version of Delay at All These Things from Leeds Live Art Bistro will feature lots of new images and an expanded version of the performance. All this will be in a zine that people can pick up at the event on August 15 at Zoo Southside during the Edinburgh Fringe.
Here’s an image of the new stuff!
Pleased to announce I will be presenting a new and expanded version of Delay at a special event during the Edinburgh Fringe. Delay is part of All These Things a night of performance from Leeds Live Art Bistro. The event takes place on 15 of August and I will post more details soon.
Tickets are available now.
I have written a blog post over at the Camden People’s Theatre Website explaining my new Zine Delay. You can read it here.
Delay is a new performance zine that can be purchased from Camden People’s Theatre (for £2) from 5 – 24 March 2018.
Delay is a queer love story told in an 8 page zine. It is part of the Sprint Festival and a Private Play that takes place in the bar of Camden People’s Theatre (58-60 Hampstead Rd, Kings Cross, London NW1 2PY).
Delay is a story about waiting. It is love story where a person is waiting in the Camden People’s Theatre bar for their partner to arrive. It attempts to capture the moment in a relationship when you can’t decide if putting the effort in is worth it. I think it is a universal theme and an interesting one to explore in the Private Plays format. The story is from the perspective of a same sex couple, but the subject matter could apply to anyone.
The Zine for Delay does not actually contain a traditional theatre script. With this Zine I wanted to try something new and experimental with words, language and illustrations. It is more like a comic book that concisely imparts the inner thoughts and frustrations of the characters within the story. As thoughts and feelings can be difficult to express through words, the language and presentation is abstract and obscure and asks the reader to draw their own conclusions. Delay is therefore an experimental piece.
I would like audiences who turn up to the Sprint Festival to read the Zine whilst they are waiting for a show, or waiting for their friends to turn up. Alternatively if they do not have time, they can take the Zine home with them and read it there. If they use their imagination you could envision being in the bar at Camden People’s Theatre.
In late 2016 I was awarded a residency from the National Theatre of Scotland as part for their Starter for Ten scheme. During the residency I created the framework for a new Private Play involving puppetry. The title of this show is Letters We Leave Behind. It is still a work in progress and is a special show involving 5 puppets that the audience member will manipulate. The puppet in turn will give a letter to the participant that the audience member can read. There will be five letters (one for each puppet) and they tell the story from the show. Letters We Leave Behind will be completed in early 2018.
Video from residency
Images from residency
Development Images
Borderline Personality Disorder
This mini-zine looks at the condition of Borderline Personality Disorder and gives a personal account of the emotion of living with this affliction.
It is a short 8 page performance documentary in a zine. The performance takes place in front of a mirror and requires the participant to read the zine to themselves or out loud (it is their choice).
Borderline Personality Disorder is the second performance in the Do It Theatre mini-zine performance series and will be available at various venues during the Edinburgh Fringe. Check on twitter to stay up to date with where and when.
Zines with illustrations and performance scripts are a major part of what Do It Theatre do.
Our Zines are usually created to be read in our unique installation/performance spaces, however with this new Mini-Zine series we are changing the format.
We are creating and publishing a set of Mini-Zines that can be read and enjoyed in a series of specific outdoor and indoor locations – or alternatively you can read them whenever you like. The idea is to experiment with performance as text.
The Mini-Zines are a combination of text, illustrations and comic books and tackle a variety of different issues.
Information on Mini-Zine 1 – Middle Meadow Walk is below. More Mini-Zines will follow in the future.
Middle Meadow Walk
“There are many streets in Edinburgh that serve no purpose” Middle Meadow Walk is a pathway in Edinburgh that runs through a parkland area known as The Meadows. At times it can be quiet and at other times it can be busy with people walking their dogs or out enjoying the sun. Middle Meadow Walk is a story that takes you out of yourself. It gives you space to think, relax and then act. The story takes place at Middle Meadow Walk, but if you cannot make it to that location, you can read it wherever you like. The Middle Meadow Walk Mini-Zines will be distributed throughout Edinburgh during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017. Look for it at various venues and if you find one, please read it and take it home. It is not a flyer for a show. It is the show. Look on twitter for updates.
After the Fringe Festival the Mini-Zine for Middle Meadow Walk will be available to download on www.doit-theatre.com.
We will have some of our zines from our show Ten Little Memories at an exhibition as part of Papergirl Bristol. The exhibition takes place at the Easton Community Centre on Kilburn Street from 10 June until 9 July 2017. We will be exhibiting 10 zines during the show and then these will be handed out to members of the public at a special event after the exhibition concludes. Here volunteers will be travelling around Bristol on bikes and giving out all the artwork from the exhibition.
Papergirl Bristol
Easton Community Centre
Kilburn Street
Bristol
BS5 6AW
Do It Theatre 