Avenue Q – UK Tour
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Interval drinks at The Kings, Glasgow
Seat to service: 2/5 3 mins 30 seconds
Ice and a slice: 2/5 A thin slice with melty cubes – 2/5
Price: 2/5 £4.50 (with a members discount of 50p) for G&T, £1.35 for a tub of Pringles 2/5
ATG bars always disappoint. I worry that their high prices might put off rare theatre goers from making more trips to the theatre. Perhaps its the new audiences that should be rewarded with cheaper drinks than the regulars with membership cards.
Pringles tub also put me in a flap. There is so much waste left over. At least you can crumple up a crisp bag. Nice selection of choice and flavours though.
Average score 1.75 / 5 ice cream tubs
‘Pass the Spoon’, digital theatre and ACE’s Space
‘Falling Headlong’ for the first time
Watch Headlong’s original video here.
I had spent the weekend in the countryside with limited access and was unable to watch Headlong’s arty new season teaser when it was first launched.
What I was able to acess was the attention it drew on Twitter and beyond. It was given a nod on A Younger Theatre, a frustrated but excellent blog post from Chris Unitt on where the company could have increased their reach, a spectacuarly off-the-pulse Guardian article and a blog post from Andrew Haydon where you can practicaly hear his head hitting the desk with every asterix and inverted comma.
I thought I’d “exploit the power of social media” for myself and record my first reactions to Rupert Goold’s “mini-film”.
I found myself musing that the video left me with a feeling of curiosity. Not a curiosity to know more, but to be told more.” On revisiting the Guardian article, I find that this is in direct opposition of Goold’s view that, “What people in a social media age want is not to be told about something but to discover it.” Just two people’s opinion. But what do you think?
Truth at 1 MB/sec
I like writing. But not as much as I love experiencing theatre. If I have an extra two hours in my day between work and sleep, I prefer to spend that time watching a play rather than at my computer redrafting a string of similes.
As an ambitious creative, I personally do not find that a critical, academic approach to the work of my contemporaries helps me in developing myself artistically. My analytical side does not take imperfection well. A death knell for fledgling ideas. Yet enthusing about new work and the nerdy joys in finding patterns in the cultural landscape is its own enjoyment.
These are conversations that I want to have with other audience members. I do not want to be a definitive voice. I want to be challenged and learn from the opinions of others. And when I love something, I really want people to know. What may appear as cliched on the page can come across as passion on YouTube. Being rendered speechless by a piece of work doesn’t come across too easily in writing. Seeing someone gasping for a suitable description of their feelings can convey far more than a sharply constructed sentence.
My tone of voice and body language can speak my true emotions far more than I am able to convey in writing. I do not worry about redrafting, second takes or editing. I want to say the same thing to you in a video that I would to you at the foyer bar, fresh from a production.
YouTube is full of people talking about what they love. Make up, Minecraft, and if I had my way, theatre.