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Stockton Workshop and Bradford Residency

hannah performs A Conversation With My Father at Hatch Scratch in Leicester

A really quick update to announce proper a couple of exciting additions to the A Conversation With My Father working process. I’m delighted to announce a fourth week in residence – at the brilliant Theatre in the Mill. They’re being extremely supportive and I’m really happy to be adding that extra week on just after the week in Sheffield – Yorkshire ‘r’ us, and also, 2 weeks solid feels properly productive to get the show tied up at the end. The showing at that week will be fully public, and pay-what-you-can, so if you’re in the area, you should definitely come along.

Also, I will be running a workshop at ARC in Stockton on the 6th of February. A bit of blurb here:

A short 2 hour workshop with time for discussion afterwards. Looking at autobiographical performance as a manner of addressing the wider political questions of contemporary life; from personal relationships, everyday encounters, to conflict and large-scale historical events from the point of view of the individual.

More info and booking on their website.

So, just to round up, here’s how the next couple of months looks:

Residencies:

4th-8th Feb – ARC, Stockton
25th Feb-1st Mar – The Crucible
4th-8th Mar – Theatre in the Mill

Showings:

February 8th 2013 – ARC Stockton (mid-process work in progress) — 4.30pm in the Studio – contact me for tickets
March 1st 2013 – The Crucible, Sheffield (invited showcase) – 6pm in the rehearsal room – contact me for tickets
March 8th 2013 – Theatre in the Mill  (open showcase) 6.30pm in the main studio pwyc tickets from their website

 Workshops: 

ARC 6-8:30pm Weds 6th Feb book here.
Theatre in the Mill – Weds 6th Mar – Studio space. Booking and content tbc (contact me if interested)

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A Conversation With My Father in 2013

ACW at Hatch earlier this year, image by David Wilson Clarke

So earlier on this Autumn I was really happy to announce that I’d got Grants for the Arts Support to match funding and support in kind from 3 venues which meant I was going to be able to develop A Conversation With My Father into a full length solo show. I promised further details, and here, just two weeks before it all starts (eek!) are those.

For those who might not remember, A Conversation With My Father is a solo piece born out of a conversation between my dad (an ex-policeman) and me (his protestor daughter). A conversation about fear, grey areas, them and us, duty, and standing up to protect what you think matters. I don’t intend it to be a piece about which side you should take, and it is not addressed at the police, or protestors specifically, rather it’s a conversation between a daughter and father, who is proud of her, which also happens to expose the problems with the idea of ‘sides’ in the first place. This is my first solo show, and will (fanfare…) be developed in the first three months of 2013 with the support of ARC Stockton, Sheffield Theatres, Embrace Arts, MYSTERY VENUE NUMBER FOUR, Third Angel and an Arts Council Grants for the Arts award. (Early work in progress showings have been seen at The Little Festival of Everything, Hatch: Scratch, Contact Theatre’s Flying Solo festival and The Junction’s Sampled Festival.)

The MYSTERY VENUE NUMBER FOUR is an exciting addition of new support – a fourth week at another venue in Yorkshire – which I’m just pinning down, and will announce as soon as possible.

The process will be four weeks in residence in each theatre (spread over three months) in a room with Alex Kelly of Third Angel as mentor and director, plus a visit or two from my dad, writing, improvising, making, learning, thinking and developing the material I’ve already got into something fuller. Full-length, in fact. At the end of each residency there will be an invited or open showing to the public, and in ARC and MYSTERY VENUE NUMBER FOUR options to come along to workshops with me. The aim is to get a finished-ish piece up and reading for Edinburgh and/or touring in  2013/14.

So in the meantime, I’m sure I’ll blog progress as and when it happens (though I won’t bother you about all the learning about spreadsheets and other professional development stuff that’s happening at the moment) and, if you’re interested in seeing one of the work in progress showings, let me know, and I’ll make sure you’re added to some kind of list or other. Here are the dates for those (times closer to the time, like)

January 11th 2013 – Embrace Arts, Leicester (very early work in progress)
February 8th 2013 – ARC Stockton (mid-process work in progress)
March 1st 2013 – The Crucible, Sheffield (invited showcase)
Mid-late March tbc 2013 – Yorkshire  (open showcase)

See you in 2013!