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Beyond Small Talk.
A multi-faceted interactive performance incorporating: feltmaking, story telling and improvised poetry and song. Developed and presented in collaboration with Lightbulb Improv.
Audience members learnt to make a wet-felted flower. Whilst they were making their flower they conversed with the improvisers - telling stories about their experience of small blessings. These stories were turned into poems or songs in a 20 minute improvised performance. The performance ended in a sing along - with the audience helping to construct a four part rondel (adapted from the medieval round Rose Red* that summed up their experiences of the evening
* this link takes you to a YouTube clip of a version of the original song
The key intentions of this part of the project were to:
- connect authentically with the audience
- honour the shared stories through creation of poems and songs
- leave the performance feeling affirmed and uplifted
- introduce people to the art of felt making and improvisation
A comment from one of our audience members (Ted, aged 11 - a whisker away from 12):
“Thanks for the show. It was good and had a good sense of community. And I felt like I was a celebrity because everyone knew my name’."
He also sent us some photos of his flower drying in position at home. Some images from the evening: