I was delighted when I heard that Good News from the Future will be performing again soon at Chapter – I was even more delighted when they agreed that I could watch their rehearsals and do some drawing. I am putting their flyer up now so that people get to hear about the performance. I am still photographing the drawings – some of them are on a long roll of paper that Im still working out how best to capture.
Here is the flyer – sadly the image is lost – but you can find it on Chapter Art Centre Cardiff Web site.
GOOD NEWS FROM THE FUTURE
presents
WHAT COMES NEXT…
THEATR SELIGMAN THEATRE
CHAPTER, CARDIFF
FRIDAY 18 & SATURDAY 19 MARCH 2016 8pm
‘We are happy in our own skins – our maturity brings a whole new set of delights.’
Another chance to see a surprise hit of last November’s Cardiff Dance Festival.
What Comes Next… is simultaneously a statement and a question, a fresh view of the hunger to dance, a seizing of the time to give it a good shaking.
A dozen singular performers rub shoulders and energies in a wildly eccentric, exuberant improvisation of solos, duos and freewheeling group encounters laced with effervescent humour – in a spirit of playfulness to be enjoyed by all ages.
Good News from the Future brings together pioneering physical theatre practitioners, a clutch of people who haven’t performed for a long time and some people who’ve only just started. It marks and celebrates the wisdom of mature selves, the experience of older bodies and the adventurousness of time-travelled heads.
The accent of our work is on valuing the creative potential of the mature performer.
The group begin with exploratory workshops in the summer of 2014 and is led by Mike Pearson and Nigel Watson, drawing on physical theatre exercises used by Cardiff-based theatre companies in the 1970s.
Fortnightly sessions began in early 2015 and in the run up to the premiere of What Comes Next… in November, the group met every Sunday morning in Chapter.
Good News From The Future includes members of past Cardiff companies including Brith Gof, Cardiff Laboratory Theatre, Made In Wales, Man Act, Red Light and Theatr Taliesin; and contemporary companies including Good Cop Bad Cop and Theatr Iolo.
What Comes Next… is performed by Gilly Adams, Pat Adams, Jill Greenhalgh, Phil Harris, Miranda James, Yvette Vaughan Jones, Jill Kirkpatrick, Kevin Lewis, Richard Huw Morgan, Elaine Paton, Jennie Pickstone, Simon Thorne and Nigel Watson.
What Comes Next… is coordinated by Mike Pearson and Nigel Watson.
And here are some of the drawings
