So its been coming for a while and finally I have found a little space and time to get it together – a new blog, for a new process, with the aim of a new performance. So far I have travelled on trains, through time and now on foot…. a travelling auto-ethnographer seems to beContinue reading “The Distance Travelled – new research blog”
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Out of Character: Henry IV
Adapted and Directed by Juliet Forster Written by Luigi Pirandello 15th – 18th May 2012: York Theatre Royal
“Days Like These”
“Days Like These” was written for anyone who was ever 17. “You see the play is about this woman, this woman looking for a girl… and we’re running out of time….this play it’s not going anywhere, we’re not going anywhere….these characters aren’t going to change, its like they are stuck to the page” Drawing onContinue reading ““Days Like These””
“Days Like These”
As part of York St John University’s Graduate Showcase Festival, Create ’12, I will be performing “Days Like These”. So if you missed out the first time, make sure you catch it this time. It really is rather good! Tickets are free and can be booked here “Days Like These” 6pm – Monday 21st MayContinue reading ““Days Like These””
“Days Like These”
Left Luggage
“A girl in a black dress gets on a train…..” Left Luggage is a tale of loss and remembrance. This story folds narrative, autobiography and testimony into a journey that we all know, a journey we all take, and sometimes fear that we will have to take again and again. View the paper documentation Left Luggage from Gemma Alldred on Vimeo.
Left Luggage @ The Little Festival of Everything
Left Luggage will be part of the very exciting, ‘Little Festival of Everything’, at the Fauconberg Arms in Coxwold, 25th – 27th November. Organised by the rather lovely ‘Flanagan Collective‘. More details to come.
Out of Character: Reception
Reception Directed by Gemma Alldred October 2011: Holgate Reception, York St. John University A site-specific intervention in the Holgate building’s reception at York St. John University. Commissioned as part of the well-being initiative for World Mental Health Day. The space was invaded by suspicious men with suitcases, gentlemen/women exchanging top hats and newspapers, the world’sContinue reading “Out of Character: Reception”
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