Our company is still newly formed and we are working together as a new group and discovering what each member is interested in. We are still finding our feet and finding our ideas. There is still a long journey to make and I don’t think it is going to be an easy one. There is going to be things that people love, things that people dislike and things that people might not understand. There will be a range of emotions throughout the process but it is how we work through these emotions and possibly direct the energy into the performance that will develop who we are as a company.
Devising a piece good enough to be performed is a difficult task within itself, we don’t want it to be something that is mediocre, we want to develop something with a unique twist but something that isn’t necessarily cheesy or cliché. We currently have a wide range of ideas and are in the process of having too many ideas, which is a good things for now as it gives us a lot of space to explore and play around with text, images, films, projection and other forms of media.
Taking inspiration from The Trilogy, which was performed at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (30th Jan) we want to take the parts that captured our imagination and put the same skills and techniques into practice but with our own work. We are also taking inspiration from Ours was the Fen country and their use of verbatim, sounds and movement. Other inspirations currently include Filter Theatre Company and several films.
It is going to be a long but hopefully enjoyable process to stage manage this show, something which I am looking forward to. It is great to see all of our current ideas coming to life on the stage.