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I’ve always loved theatre. The liveness, the immediacy, I love that it’s ‘now or never’ in a performance and it’s all happening with actors and audience together. Undertaking a career in the performing arts always seemed like the thing I had to do, so I studied at school, college and university to gain the skills I needed to make it happen! I was fortunate too to have had lots of experience working with children and young people before starting university and was able to channel this towards gaining some teaching and facilitating work alongside my studies. Most of my experience of facilitating drama had been teaching kids up until last year, with a little bit of experience volunteering delivering drama courses for the Sunderland Recovery College. None of that really compares to what I have discovered working with Inter-Acting.
I began working with Kim and the group last summer. I knew that they were working towards creating a performance about mental health, drawing upon the experiences of the group to explore a range of issues surrounding it. I knew that the group was small but fierce, people full of enthusiasm for theatre who wanted to be a part of making and performing something exciting and important. I knew that this sounded like something I could get involved in and wanted to be a part of and so my journey with Inter-Acting began. There’s something really special about working with the same group over a prolonged period of time, getting to know people and discovering, and sometimes watching them discover, their talents. This process on its own is so rewarding, but the fact that this group has created a play about something meaningful, to themselves and the community at large, is wonderful. Every participant has their own voices and opinions and the performance incorporates that. It has been a real privilege working with the group over the last 10 months, working with them to take a bundle and form it into a full-length performance. Performing alongside the group for their first performance in December was a wonderful and exciting experience as everyone had worked so hard to pull it together and create an engaging and thought-provoking show so I am delighted that we are able to do it again at Northern Stage on the 11th of May. This time we are offering a pre-show workshop. I’d encourage everyone to come: it’s fun, it’s exciting, it’s improvised, it’s interactive and it’s important. Expect to think differently about thinking. It’s been a privilege to be a part of the process so far and I’m very excited to see where we all go from here! 7pm - pre-show workshop 8pm - show start time BOOK HERE |
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