Following TVCT’s AGM on Thursday 13th September in Payhembury Parish Hall, there will be a presentation of video and photos from the site-specific production ‘Leyhill’ which took place in April this year.
John Somers will also present the next project, an inter-generational production which will be developed through co-operative work between young people and older people in the community. The aim is to spend time exploring life in the period 1930 -1950 when the older people were young. The group will then devise key scenes which capture the essence of that period and these scenes will mainly be played by the young people. Following that, the group will research how life might be in the period 2070/2090 – the projected old-age of the youngsters – and, in a similar process; the group will devise scenes which will be played predominantly by the older people. The scenes will be themed so topics such as ‘agriculture’, ‘family life’, ‘health care’, ‘education’, ‘transport’, ‘entertainment’ and ‘communications’ will lead to paired, eight-minute performances with around 150 years between them – say, farming in 1935 and farming in 2085. Considerable research will be involved as well as interesting technical challenges in representing the world of 2090. We expect that ‘experts’ will also speak about these topics and help to develop the stories, so we are keen to involve farmers, doctors, teachers, telecommunications workers etc.
Please contact John Somers at j.w.somers@ex.ac.uk or 01884 277390 if you want to know more or discuss things. And, better still, please come to the meeting at 8.00pm when essential AGM business will end and the other elements described above will begin.
