Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Moo Mentum


Well, allthough I feel like that post that the Guardian lady said about theatre was accurate, I still seemt o be writing for fucking theatre and doing the fucking Momentum thing! When Will I be too old to go to these fucking youthclubs and houses of the unshaven? I really did think that last year was my first and last experince of it but Nooooooooo, they go and up the age limit and I (stupid that I am and daftly dedicated to writing) still go.
It was great last year 'cos Emma Rosoman ran it and she's fantastic. Its somebody else this year and (true I really havent given it a chance yet) she got us to do weird clapping and chanting and all I kept thinking was "I could be in the pub but I'm here doing this. What???"
How Embarassing.
and I know I'll still end up going every week, cos I want to develop this play for Ladyfest, Fuck TWP, seriously, with a long hard pole, cos htey wont do anything I come out with. Not cos its shit (allthough I'm bound to say that!) but 'cos its all about getting bums on seats and doing something for the theatre going public (who, needless to say, are somewhat removed from my background and experince). If you want the "cutting edge" of performance and stuff look at the DIY Music festivals, the little random nights, even the once-illegal soundsystems for something creative and different! Just be prepared to tone down any slightly southern / BBC english stylee accent that might arise!

11 comments:

morphean ramble said...

unshaven... you say that like it's a pejorative thing...

Alex said...

I get pissed off with the 'bums on seats' brigade. They're fucking market researchers.

morphean ramble said...

but it's all so fucking futile and self-defeating as well, and we just end up watching the same old tired crap again and again.

theatre is supposed to be alive, and part of that should be putting on new and different stuff. not reviving the same thing time after time after time

Alex said...
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Alex said...

yup yup yup, but some people want to make it deadly smedley to justify £30k salaries.

morphean ramble said...

alex, was that you saying something contentious again?

Lucy Ann Wade said...

I do like Momentum, but what I'm starting to think is that it's similar to trying to get a book published - you wouldn't try to sell your pornographic incestuous family saga novel to Bloomsbury's childrens division. I think we need to accept that all theatres have a 'type' of play they want, and we have to decide whether we want to write it or not. At least until we make a name for ourselves (instead of just a reputation!!). Sad but true, I think.

morphean ramble said...

I just have the sneaking suspicion that there's no theatre that wants to put on the type of play I want to write.

morphean ramble said...

oh, and that fucking cow is freaking me out something chronic

Sabrina Mei-Li Smith said...

Leave the cow alone!!!
and i recon it happens in most creative things. there is "cutting edge" and there is "selling out"...
but when we get a bit further on we'll have issues about are we still "cutting edge"(trans. poor, starving writers) or "sell outs" (trans. Like TWP) and its also one of those things that has a grass is greener philosophy

Alex said...

Yus, it was contentious. Mind you it is an honestly held opinion expressed in good faith.(This is what you get from law 101 :S)

I wish I was well rounded in my opinions like lucy though.