Thursday, 3 February 2011
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Tales from Out of Character
Tales from Out of Character, a short documentary showing our process of collaborating with York Theatre Royal earlier this year is now available online!
Thursday, 7 October 2010
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Performance Dates
Saturday 9th October - 4.30pm
Carriageworks, Millenium Square, Leeds
Wednesday 13th October
Quad South Hall, Faculty of Arts
York St. John University, York
Performances are free of charge but tickets are limited please book your place on the day at the event - for advance bookings please contact g.alldred@yorksj.ac.uk
Monday, 23 August 2010
Experiment no. 1
A fantastic time was had by all last week as One in Four theatre company joined forces with Out of Character in a meeting of minds to create what became known as 'Experiment No. 1'!
It was a fraught few days as everyone worked hard to collaborate on the fragments of material each company had brought to share and resulted in a thoughful performance on the theme of care.
Drinks were shared and conversation flowed on the varied subjects of performance, performance and mental health and who's round it was next!
These pictures show some of the story but the experience and growth gained as individuals, performers and companies is much greater.
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Friday, 2 July 2010
Director's notes on a sell out show!
“It is through writing that I keep a hold on life.”
Franz Kafka
Many of us involved in this production would agree with Kafka – maybe not all of us through writing, but certainly through one form of creative expression or another. We channel our anxieties, our hopes and our fears through this creativity in an attempt to make sense of our lives. Artistic expression, far from being an add-on, a form of therapy, is part of who we are: it is one of the earliest and most primal needs we experience as human beings. The need to pour our experiences into art, to form a perspective, to communicate better through it, to share our commonality with others in it, and understand ourselves more fully as a result. This need seems fundamental to the human condition.
I have wanted to make a play drawn from Kafka’s short stories for about ten years now, and am delighted that I finally have the chance to do it – and I cannot think of a better group of people to have created it with. Out of Character is made up of unique, honest and creative individuals who have been a pleasure to work with, as we have devised, discussed, rehearsed, played with and identified with these extraordinary and yet little known stories from one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers.
Juliet Forster
Franz Kafka
Many of us involved in this production would agree with Kafka – maybe not all of us through writing, but certainly through one form of creative expression or another. We channel our anxieties, our hopes and our fears through this creativity in an attempt to make sense of our lives. Artistic expression, far from being an add-on, a form of therapy, is part of who we are: it is one of the earliest and most primal needs we experience as human beings. The need to pour our experiences into art, to form a perspective, to communicate better through it, to share our commonality with others in it, and understand ourselves more fully as a result. This need seems fundamental to the human condition.
I have wanted to make a play drawn from Kafka’s short stories for about ten years now, and am delighted that I finally have the chance to do it – and I cannot think of a better group of people to have created it with. Out of Character is made up of unique, honest and creative individuals who have been a pleasure to work with, as we have devised, discussed, rehearsed, played with and identified with these extraordinary and yet little known stories from one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers.
Juliet Forster
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