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In This Day and Stage: Fringe-Watching Sprint 2020 Chapter 3 Hello again! I am writing this blogpost from my living room and not from the foyer of CPT, a bittersweet experience: ultimately, COVID-19 (that, actually, was featured as a special, even if undesired, guest in both my previous posts) has caught up with the UK, and we find ourselves facing … Read more
Hello friends, It is with great regret that we have taken the decision to cease Camden People’s Theatre’s programme of performance, with immediate effect. Having spoken to our artists, staff, board and to colleagues across the industry – and particularly in light of the government’s advice yesterday – we are therefore suspending all scheduled performances at CPT from tonight until … Read more
In This Day and Stage: Fringe-Watching Sprint 2020 Chapter 2 On Monday evening, after spending the day between university, the tube, and work (Coronavirus, bring it on), I stuck around at Camden People’s Theatre. My friend Anja was to come with me. This happened: Greta, 13:55 Hello hon! Remember last time at CPT you were late and therefore left out? … Read more
Why do you make solo work? (Do you hate people?) [SEB] So I don’t hate people as much as it sounds! I like making solo work, makes it sound like you’re a complete misanthropist. I’m not. No, I make solo work, mostly because I worked in a performance collective for many years, called Cluster Bomb Collective, from about 2009 to … Read more
In This Day and Stage: Fringe-Watching Sprint 2020 Chapter 1 Testing, 1, 2, 3… Hi! I’m Greta and I’m the Admin & Marketing Intern at the Camden People’s Theatre. Two things about me: 1) I swear a lot; 2) I have a dark sense of humour, the kind that provokes my friends’ hilarity (and disgust, and just a bit of … Read more
I feel like there are two types of people: the whole albumers and the shufflers. I sit firmly in that last category. Mainly because I don’t feel like I deserve to listen to a whole album. Like, that’s a treat. That’s for the put together people. That’s the ‘let’s entertain the guests at Christmas’ kind of people. Aspirational. Us shufflers, … Read more
EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE COMMUNITY OF TOMORROW, the show created by Hannah Batt and I, is about imagining the future. It uses spoken text, music and found objects as prompts for the audience to imagine a positive future. It’s hard to think about the future. The current political/environmental situation doesn’t inspire much hope. A lot of the most talked about art of … Read more
We are Plastica Gals! (aka Emma Gannon and Bryony Harris!) ABOUT THE SHOW We’re bringing our BRAND NEW piece, ‘Plastica Galactica’ to SPRINT Festival on March 5th! Excited is an understatement! Plastica Galactica is a live art performance that explores our relationship to plastic pollution. The show begins quite tasked-based for example, suffocating in a plastic bag. The show is … Read more
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground… These lyrics have rattled through my head for many years, ever since I found them via my intense crush on Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters when I was 12/13 – from which I then obviously got into Nirvana – who were inspired by The Pixies – who … Read more
In 2012 I wrote a song called ‘The Edinburgh Surpriseʼ. It describes a drunken sexual encounter between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man. I grew up in west Jerusalem in the 1980s. My childhood was shadowed by political events happening around the country: the first Intifada, the military response to it, the radicalisation of the Israeli right that led … Read more
