JUNK JUNK JUNK

JUNK JUNK JUNK comments on the apathetic, wasteful nature of the theatre industry (and world) through a conversation between performer and material.

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SYNOPSIS

JUNK JUNK JUNK is an interactive performance installation, and a theatrical close reading of language - language shared (or not shared) between human beings, body language and the human interaction with materials and space. We explore the JUNKification of language so present in our society of machines and media, and find community and connection with our audiences and our stuff (the physical, the mental and the verbal).

Our key area of research was into how our theatre making practice could function more sustainably, without necessarily incorporating environmental issues within the content of the performance; “In a time of ecological crisis, what role can theatre practices play in sustainability?” We began the devising process with as much cardboard as we could collect from friends, friends of friends and various social media call outs. After weeks of exploring the salvaged material, the space and our own minds, we realised nothing felt more urgent to talk about than climate breakdown and its human impact.

ENSEMBLE • MATERIAL • SPACE

We combined these three ‘bodies’ to build a shared language of JUNK and seeming nonsense to access a meditative and mindful performance state.

The performance is semi-improvised, utilising the tools of communication, small sketches and unwritten scores discovered during rehearsals - each seamlessly and naturally picked up on and followed by the other performers in the moment.

We began with a normal conversation which transformed into (somewhat) chaos. Each night different, for both the audience and ourselves.

T E A M

co-facilitated by Hannah Harding and Dylan Rowe

devised and performed by Lucy Doig, Lucy Donald, Alex Girling, Hannah Harding, Dylan Rowe and Niamh Smith

graphic design by Dylan Rowe

Susie Clifton and Georgia Loosley, stage management and DSM

Performed with The Student Workshop at the 2019 Studio Production • Katherine Worth Building