Not quite sure what to make of Andrew Haydon’s mildly tongue-in-cheek list of cliches of visual theatre that should be banned: some items on the list are specific images or props – battered suitcases, falling feathers, umbrellas-as-birds, people climbing out of furniture1 – but elsewhere there’s the demand that we get rid of entire forms …
An occasional kind of post in which I am enthusiastic about ideas I’m not working on right now: the Having-A-Good-Day RPG: you found your keys! you’re early to work! Chair gives +10 sitting. you’re holding a glass of wine at a fancy reception: you’ll need the iPhone app that claps for you when you shake …
Some short answers to short questions: what makes a good fringe festival? It’s a festival where you see work you couldn’t or wouldn’t see otherwise; a festival where makers can make performance which couldn’t or wouldn’t otherwise be made. What should fringe organisers do? Create opportunities (and even incentives) for makers to take risks on …
I’ve known for a while that I write well – and, sometimes, write at all – between 7am and lunch. It doesn’t help, then, that the theatre industry prefers evenings, and the comedy industry prefers late nights. So I’m now attempting to persuade myself that – after a month of making 7pm the sensible time …