Well, it's been a long ole time since my last blog entry.
Since then I have been performing at various festivals and events with my
characters ‘Sybil the Worlds Last Singing Siren’ as well as ‘Madame Heather the
Misfortune Teller’. I’ve been collaborating with other performers for private
events and have generally been having a smashing time!
This blog however, marks the beginning of something more
serious. It marks the beginning of….MY FINAL YEAR AT UNIVERSITY! Eeek. Its time
to bring out the big guns..its time to crack on with some actual work….its time
for my independent project!! But to make the journey far more bearable it’s
going to be a comic one woman show all about the fabulously tricky world of
dating! Hurrah!!!
Having often sat in seemingly awful dates thinking ‘you
couldn’t write this’ ironically, I have now decided to. What better way to
celebrate the hideous world of dating than to turn it into a one woman show
that I can take with me when I graduate to kick start my career as a street
artist. Finally, all those expensive dinners (which I felt obliged to go halves on), the feigned interest in
conversations about football, finally it shall be put to good use!
THINGS I WONT BE DOING: Providing a feminist ear bashing
about how rubbish men are…on the contrary, I rather like them. Nor will I be
exploring the S word which lets face it, is a whole different kettle of fish to
dating. I wont be slagging off exes, retelling intimate experiences or creating
half an hours worth of self indulgent drivel about my life as a woman scorned
by previous partners.
THINGS I WILL BE DOING: Producing a comic exploration of the
perils of finding a mate in the modern world.
The question is of course- where do I start? There is so
much I want to explore including the taboos of dating in the modern world and
more specifically the journey and results this has on women. As a former serial
dater (ahem) and having tried many forms of modern dating including: speed
dating, slow dating, online dating, just-met-you-in-a-bar dating and good old
traditional blind dating, I am hoping I will be able to produce a well rounded
view of it. Admittedly it may be from my perspective in the main, but as an
artist, that’s my prerogative! I hope to
use inspiration from other people’s experiences that they have offered for the
project and intend to run some ethical experiments throughout my exploration.
This summer I will be setting up tableaus, creative motifs and using puppetry
and visual installations to really start digging my teeth in to this gritty,
common subject matter. I am currently in a long term relationship and I will be
interested to see how this has altered my perception of my previous
experiences, looking at them in retrospect. I am hoping this will add a
different layer to the piece.
So here is where it’s at to keep up to date with the
development of the piece and also offer any suggestions you may have about the
work. So please, suggest away.
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