BloodWater Theatre presents
the collaboratively produced new work
Leave
Your Shoes at the Door
CCA Glasgow, Friday 31st January 2014, 3.00pm and 7.30pm
In October 2011 a group of international artists met for a week’s
theatre residency in Glasgow to develop a performance:
Pritam Kapoor originally from Singapore
but lives in London now
Lucy Fitzpatrick originally from Scotland
but lives in Sydney now
Monika Nawrat from Poland, currently
lives in Scotland
Gordon O’Neill from Northern Ireland,
currently lives in Scotland
Fatima Rateb, originally from Egypt but lives in
London now
Two years later, they reunite in Glasgow to complete the work. They return for different reasons, aware of
the challenges of working with the diverse artistic practices and varied temperaments
of the artists within the group. They
each have a story to tell and must decide whether to share this story. Leave
Your Shoes at the Door raises questions about how theatre is made and
whether the process of making can be synonymous to the product of theatre. Can artists who collaborate own what they
collectively create?
Jamie Walker, Gavin
Wright, Paul Chaal, Anna Neirobisz, Suzanne Morrison, Martin Smith and Jo Ronan
make up BloodWater Theatre. As part of
her PhD research, Jo brought these individuals together in February 2011 to
test principles of ownership in theatre-making and in July 2011 BloodWater
Theatre was launched. BloodWater Theatre
collaboratively produced Whose Story Is It Anyway, a work
in progress staged at the Tron Theatre on the 15th of October 2011. The company is not funded and experiments
with egalitarian ways of making theatre in the hope of discovering the aesthetics
of the collective, enabling the making of moving performances that
challenge minds.
www.bloodwatertheatre.com
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