Quentin Tarentino says when he sits down to write a film he chooses the music first and makes the piece around that.
Me and Quentin apparently have something in common.
I walked to university today listening to Rumours by Fleetwood Mac and realised ‘Secondhand news’ was written for the kind of piece I wanted to be doing.
Funny, this formed my style, my movements and my presence.
Lets skip to tech week. .
I had no clue. .
I had these images in my head that I wanted and I knew the stock cupboard wouldn’t suddenly present them to me in all their glory like I wished it would
I wanted to create the most intricate kitchen possible, the stuff of naturalistic professional theatre companies.
Didn’t happen.
I then thought, lets move this into a bedroom.
Didn’t happen.
We stuck to basics, mirror, chair, wine spotlight.
After I set up, I was asked
‘Let’s hear some of your material’
I froze.
I’d written this beautiful, poetic piece about love but it was fictional and I couldn’t remember a thing.
Two days before my show I was told. . .
‘just speak’
So that’s what I planned to do.