January DogStar!

Rehearsal for Dogstar;
So what to do?

Our initial idea began looking at flood and disasters within our society and to what impact that could have on us.
Using performance ideas like; drinking water, holding our breath, re-telling stories of our experiences of water etc. to be the scratch basis to realising this topic.

Though is it too political to say we are doing a performance on disasters?

What is a disaster?

Does it have to be World War III for me to be effected, or can having a powercut in my home shock and make me fear more? Whats going on in our lives... right now?

After talking through ideas of how we could create a performance around this interest, led us quite broadly into researching natural disasters, man made disasters etc. Of every possible event that has taken place, and could still happen. from; 911, Cumbria Floods, earthquakes, erupting volcanoes, Titanic sinking, suicide bombings, tornado's, polar ice caps melting, burning from sunrays, etc.

But what became interesting, was the people that were centre in the middle of these events. Questioning; who are they? What's their story?

What if you were to meet someone you see, but have never spoken to, for the first time because of a disastrous event. What would be your relationship?

Taking this idea of creating relationships within events, exploring how can they last, or are they inevitably to be destroyed as well?

Keeping it simple...


"We are two people,

lost? abandoned? alone?

but we are two people...

So what happens now..."