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Performance Collective Stranraer
from FOCUS
by DG Unlimited
On a cold and blustery Thursday and thanks to the generous support of The Galloway Association of Glasgow, the William Syson Foundation, and the Holywood Trust, Performance Collective Stranraer finally met up for their first residential Lab since 2019. It was a very happy band of emerging theatre makers that sat down to dinner that night in The North West Castle Hotel, full of plans to spend the next three days in The Millennium Centre making theatre together. The hotel gave us a brilliant package deal – we’ve told PCS not to expect that level of luxury on tour!
Led by the new Artistic Director Sarah Rose Graber, and Associate Director Drew Taylor Wilson, the group did yoga, physical theatre, clowning, ensemble improvisation, writing and choreography. Participants also shared their creative projects, each receiving specific support and guidance on how to progress it. As usual with PCS, this residential experience was open access to all, accommodating within our creative practice mobility and mental health challenges. Each day’s opening and closing ceremony provided an opportunity to check in and affirm everyone’s feelings and strengths, as well affirming new learning and joyful experiences. We have no doubt that the embers of certainty fanned to life in this Lab will blaze on.
