on the go

Mudcake teaparty

I think perhaps for each generation there's a moment when you realize that beyond your parents, -there's a generation of stories and experience that is leaving the sphere of your own lifetime.  I'm especially interested in the 1930's right now because the people around to tells stories of that time first hand are to be leaving us soon.

An Olde Worlde Portrait, of 1930's lady in head dress
(Could be Alison's great Grandmother?)

There are design, as well as technical and performance components in this piece. All a fresh challenge!!
       I’ve made this specifically for this context in the Safari Room downstairs in the Civic theatre, and hope that it invites and teases the audience in a stagey girly kind of way.  I enjoy the magic of the unpredictable and here I hope that theatrical quality merges with a ‘gallery’ environment.  It’s my wish that the audience, -all set to peruse, (as you can’t help feeling you should be in the Civic), can to an extent feel transported for a moment or two back in time, and as well consider their presence in the moment of performative interaction.

Looks easy enough...