Makers Diary: Concerns

Olu has a family emergency and cannot come to the performances…I am not happy but what can I do.

I e-mailed Kerry at Camden our copy and publicity, which was this:

SIREN SONG
In 3 Parts

Synopsis

‘She was a woman. The kind of woman who wears suits good suits…..’

Siren Song….in 3 Parts is a devised theatre project that seeks to explore the concepts of woman and trauma. It examines the audience’s experiences of what these concepts mean for them through a task-driven, participatory aesthetic. Blending some of the principles of playback theatre and a postmodernist performance ethic to generate a unique and provocative theatre intervention. The performance is constructed through a series of tasks and games that ensure a completely unique experience each time it is encountered.

The event unfolds in 3 sections each one offering up a plethora of stories, partial and shifting. Like a tangled web, each delicate thread weaving and working its way through the next. We give you an inch in the hope that you will take a mile…..we pass you the rope to see what you will hang on it…….we give you our bare house in which to make a home……

‘We wear our dreams on our sleeves, right next to our hearts……….’

Come play with us….

The Company

Vertical Exchange was founded by Joanna Bucknall and Nigel Tuttle in 2005. Joanna is the Performance Artistic Director of the performance group; she has a background in theatre, performance and drama and is responsible for the performative aspects of the company. Nigel is the Media Artistic Director; he has a background in video production and is responsible for the video and media aspects of the company. Joanna and Nigel collaborate to produce a range of different projects, from installations to devised theatre works. Joanna and Nigel are the only permanent members of VEX and they work with a range of performers, artists and creative practitioners for each project that they undertake.


Siren Song Collaborators

Written & Directed by Joanna Bucknall
Scored by Joe Harris (With additional track by Richard Haddlesey)
Costume by Lorraine Bucknall
Props & Documentation Nigel Tuttle
Artwork & Publicity Kirsty Mills

Siren Song Performers

HIM Richard Haddlesey
SHE Nikki Denny
HER Debbie McGregor

I also included a couple of pics, sketches, postcards and the logo.

We had a full day of rehearsals today and I am totally knackered now..shit there is still so much to bloody sort out. Any way, I know it was a really long day but we REALLY needed it. I banned scripts and paper from today’s session with no exceptions and I made them struggle regardless…cruel I know but I needed to make a point….tomorrow is our last rehearsal. We rehearsed everything and started to put together the entire structure, combining all of the elements that we have prepared. We included the musical chairs section and the re-dressing section. Rich suggested that after the text he should just slip away from the space leaving the two girls to dress, as he did not feel that after the journey of the performance that he could put the dress back on or even present himself at all. I am going to run with this, if that is how he feels and his personae has developed then we need to run with that and whatever that suggests to the audience. Debbie and Nikki are there with the words when they concentrate but I am now deeply concerned about rich and his texts. All we can do now is just keep running it and running it.

It is very late and I have a lot to do tomorrow….so off to be d for me now.