Back in the room with the Dogs…
I am so looking forward to getting back into the room with this ridiculously gifted bunch of young artists…
Dogs in the Schoolyard – here we come! Josh McIntosh’s amazing metal schoolyard ‘fig tree’ is up in the Flipside building and the dogs are in the house!
Arrroooooo!..
I’ve created a 10 scene version of the story – Rob Kronk (Flipside Creative Producer and DOGS director) has said come and see what we have put together so far this Thursday…
It’s a crazy and interesting process – a kind of distillation of theatrical making…
Made more extreme, and clearer, because these performers don’t really use language – so something is very clear as it grows or it’s muddy and hard to read.
You see that and you know what has to go and what is worth keeping, growing…
And then, the stuff that’s clear as it grows becomes even clearer and more nuanced when you add language in.
It’s a weird backwards process for me – a lover of words who whittles and whittles and cries over every cut until I have a sparse script.
In DOGS I don’t have a sparse script – I have maybe a few small patches of words in a sea of action and adventure that ebbs and flows around this extraordinary huge metal fig tree…