Such a funny, tight script - utterly genius.
And then, my friend M came round to babysit at 4.30pm and Hub and I - WENT TO LONDON! (wow - how long has it been since we did anything like this!! - together!!) for the People Who Do works outing. We went to a lovely Lebanese restaurant in Paddington. Got soaking wet in the torrential rain on the way there, having gone totally not dressed for rain. Had a delicious meal. And then went to see Punch Drunk's National Theatre show (performance / experience?) The Drowned Man. It was totally amazing. Hard to describe though. Heck I will try..... You go in, and you are given a mask. You enter into a different world, the whole place - several floors - is a set. With a soundtrack. As an audience member you wonder around as you please in this set, and come across the actors, who also move around the vast set from scene to scene. You choose who to follow and what to do. Its an incredible set and there are acting scenes and a lot of dance - contemporary storytelling type dances. And the whole thing feels like you have been dropped into a David Lynch film. Its extraordinary. I know you could go several times and discover more of it. WE got home very very late. Wow. Am still reeling from it.
Then today I started off at Critical Incident, which is an event of experimental workshops curated by a chap called Paul Levy. I did a workshop involving masks and identity (it felt right to go to a mask thing after the masks of the night before) It was really cool, though I volunteered for some bit where you stand in front of an audience. Basically because this can make me really nervous and I want to know ways to help me do this better. Yes it is something that scares me. And it was all fine and useful until I decided to explain why I had volunteered and suddenly I found myself in my worst nightmare scenario of pretty much feeling as if I was about to burst into tears as I stood there in front of a bunch of people. And so the lady who was running the thing, asks - "and what do you need right now..." and..... in comes Paul with his iphone camera taking pictures... Well it did break the ice and I managed to get a laugh. Maybe that was exactly what I needed. And yes there are pictures. Bloody facebook! But the bit before that .... why did I decide to be so "vunerable" and "authentic"?! in public! sigh.
Then I dashed across town to take part in a 4 hour FAST ART event as part of a Hackathon. I am not altogether sure what a Hackthon is. I think its where a bunch of computer types jam inventions. This one was in response to the financial crash. And us bunch of artists had 4 hours to create art in response to that. The speed of it meant it was pretty rough and ready. But it was really fun. I ended up creating some sort of paper theatre thing in a very large cardboard box with mountains made out of the shape of the graph of the housing peak and crash. And little red houses being blown up - well it started with little red houses in an explosion. Someone mentioned monopoly houses and I had this idea to make lots of little red houses out of paper and suspend them as if they were mid explosion. It didn't quite work like that. But hey. I enjoyed myself a lot. And it was a really interesting challenge to create so immediately to such a random idea as data.
Then I went back to Critical Incident for a debate about mysticism. According to Paul this mainly involved keeping an open and curious mind about everything and never thinking you KNOW it all. I am fine with that. Not sure I'd go so far as calling myself a mystic. But I do have a sense of awe and wonder at the world. And the more you know, the less you realise you know.
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