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How can we find and tell stories when connection is fleeting? With a team of Terrapin folk, I’ve just wrapped up a seven week unmapped exploration at the Migrant Resource Centre’s Youth Drop-in program, seeking to develop a way of working and a relationship that can grow in the coming years. Young recent arrivals to…
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Making a show is a deeply iterative process. In the second creative development for Feathers, a room full of people thrashed out the potential and the limitations of the puppets we’ve built, and tested them against Dan Giovannoni’s boisterous script. A list of tweaks and changes emerged, some necessary for narrative or performer comfort, some…
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Creative development for a new show begins with long-suffering performers, pegs and stickytape. You might not see it yet, but Greta Jean and Bella Young will eventually be two cockatoos and a ferret. The process of developing new work is iterative, with the design, script, and direction responding to each other as the storytelling becomes…
