Looking back, it seems strange that I had nothing produced in 1996, after all the activitiy in 1995; however, various pots were bubbling. One of these was Strangers, a community theatre piece for Crooked House Theatre Co. in Newbridge, Co. Kildare. Peter Hussey was the Artistic Director and my main collaborator on the show. The play was in part an experiment in form: we had about sixteen performers and we wanted to involve them all in a fairly even-handed way, The solution I landed on was to create 4 sub-groups, all of whom were connected by the death of a central character; the characters knew the other characters in their own group, but to the other groups they were strangers.
We ran some lively audience-participation/improvisation sessions alongside the show. I have an abiding memory of one man having a baby on the floor of the school hall in Newbridge.
See http://www.croookedhouse.ie/ for background on the company.
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