Leicester – Page 4 – Hannah Nicklin

img_c4_8472-ed1-sm — 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!

I am delighted to announce the SEVENTH Performance in the Pub, happening at the Crumblin’ Cookie, Thursday the 7th of January, at 8pm (doors at 7.30pm). TICKET LINK!

(warning, the following information is shamelessy C+V’d from the performanceinthepub.co.uk website, but I wrote that, so it’s not like stealing or anything)

Back in the new year with an incredibly exciting lineup – Performance in the Pub returns to Leicester with two shows about memory, nostalgia, and the ways we fit together our own story. This double bill of DIY performance tumbling into poetry presents two performance poets crossing over into the the world of theatre as they move from the dusty boxes of an attic in Essex, to the long-left streets of Atlanta, Georgia.

As ever, free stickers (and badges if I can afford them) for everyone who donates over £5. TICKET LINK!

So, on the 17th of January Performance in the Pub will be hosting the brilliant:

Fergus Evans with My Heart is Hitchhiking Down Peachtree St. and

Stand By for Tape Back up, a work-in-progress showing by Ross Sutherland

So! What’s it all about, then?

My Heart is Hitchhiking Down Peachtree St. – Fergus Evans

Fergus has lived in England for almost seven years. He hasn’t been back to his hometown in five.My Heart is Hitchhiking Down Peachtree St. is a one-man show about living far away from home. It’s about the stories you tell people when they ask you when you’re from. It’s about learning that once you leave, you can’t go back. Not in the same way, anyway.

‘a refreshing reminder of just what can be achieved in Theatre’ – thepublicreviews

“Gently perceptive… rich and unhurried… its questions about home, memories and distance pack an emotional punch” – Total Theatre

And then there’s Ross Sutherland’s piece –

Standby For Tape Back-Up – Ross Sutherland

Ross Sutherland found an old videotape in his loft. On it: two episodes of The Fresh Prince of BelAir, half a Crystal Maze and the opening 10 minutes of Jaws. He has remixed the tape to tell his life story.

“Top Ten Literary Star” – The Times

I’ve been trying to get hold of these two for AGES. They’re both brilliant. Properly brilliant. So, y’know, join us, on the 17th of January, and also, do stick around and hang out after. And head over to the facebook event if you fancy inviting mates along. I’d like that. FIT poster designed by the brilliant Lee Innes. HIRE HIM.

(TICKET LINK!)

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A Conversation With My Father in 2013