Gut instinct, intuition and the process of making theatre: When we try to force a process – however well conceived and genuinely desired – there is this chance of finding a spider in the belly…lupa lupa crawling around making me feel itchy inside. Listening to the spiders is part of making theatre for me. Following them inside to the point of concern to discover: What is it that is not working? Why is this hard?
Ria and I have reviewed the workshop process. On reflection the idea of a two week workshop process was becoming less of a creative conversation and more of an event driven affair. Neither of us want this. Plus it was getting hard to pin people down to such along period of time. Ria agreed – this is hard - to get people, to confirm a viable space, to feel the weight of a performance…so simplify and go back to the point of what we want: she wants to explore ideas of found lights and night time puppets, she wants an open creative dialogue between myself and local artists. She wants to offer the workshops to those who usually do not get the opportunity to work in this way. I want an organic process to make a piece of work that is - not to force a performance but to find the impulse within the group to perform something -to give ourselves the opportunity not to perform simply to play together. I’m keen to know how people make work here - how people are propelled.
Our change in tack back to our original five day plan with the possibility of further development later into a grander presentation dissolved the knot of concern.
The spiders have returned to their webs and we are ready to play.
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