Long Overdue!

Aloha amigos! It's been a bit of a while but we've got some nice material from our ACE-funded W-I-P last month.

The trial of Goneril, in emergency lighting

Lear keeping counsel

Lear shedding responsibility, ready for a new life

The painful reality of Lear's new life

It was a well attended, well received show and we've had time to analyse the faults, follies, failures and triumphs of our King Lear and where it goes from here. These include but are not limited to;

1) We need a variety of modern and classic text - less reverence for the text overall, more personal ingenuity

2) More focused strike on the political issue, not broad attack on politics/politicans

3) We'll treat it more as an exploration of the toxicity of power on the human soul, citing relevant, focussed examples from contemporary society

4) Great tech; enhance, condense and restrain where appropriate to maximise potential power

5) Condense characters, reanalyse and focus our narrative, our plot

6) Restrain use of silence and darkness to maximise potential power

7) Restrain and selectively utilise live sound alteration

8) Restore magic of some over-exposed digital tech effects (i.e. handheld projector)

There's a few more but we're pretty happy we're on a good track, we've come far in a year and will go far yet. Aside from all this, our Illyria workshops are going great, with performance in a little over a month, our STAX group (Basingstoke) are performing admirably and creating themselves a captivating world that Dave and I are really looking forward to releasing! Keep up the great work guys! More updates on Lear revisions and the first phase of our new project.

DP