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Tonight I read (on Zoom obvs) Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin with an astonishing bunch of women. Firstly it is one of the best plays I’ve read in years - THAT’S ROLES FOR WOMEN. If you love the balls of Jerusalem, here’s the TITS! But as an activity it made me realise what I miss
I often struggle with elements of my job - it’s exclusivity, it’s inaccessibility, even it’s temporary nature, BUT !!! BIG BUT !!! I forget too quickly the liveness of it.
My friend said the other day “what if everyone watches Netflix over the next 9 months and says “oh! It’s the same!” But they won’t. Love Is Blind and Tiger King are definitely entertaining but they’re both 4 hours too long and even Chekhov knew how to keep it brief comparatively.
What’s really great about theatre and any live art is not just the artists, the collection of different people with different experiences, that you gather to tell one story in some sort of cohesive way but the multitude of people that opt to take part at the end. The audience
I miss other people. The people I don’t know. I love live performance because of its temporary nature, the brief moment, the seance if you like.
The moment that we know we’re here.
Right now a lot of us feel lonely, lost and unseen. Humans need to be seen. We need to know we exist. I’m not religious at all but I think I’ve just realised I’ve had a church and when we can let’s aim to open the doors ever wider
Right now a lot of us feel lonely, lost and unseen. Humans need to be seen. We need to know we exist. I’m not religious at all but I think I’ve just realised I’ve had a church and when we can let’s aim to open the doors ever wider
