Incubator Delegate Programme 2019

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THE INCUBATOR IDEAS FESTIVAL 2019 ‘A thing needs to be a thing in order to be a thing.’

David Harradine #Incubator19

Presented by Leverhulme Arts Scholars and Bath Spa MA Theatre for Young Audiences students

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INTRODUCTION

Kate Cross, Director, the egg

At the egg we want to programme work that is any combination of contemporary, challenging, authentic, complex, spectacular and beautiful.

Here are some other ingredients we seek: extraordinary connections, lingual rhythms, physical interpretations, undiscovered stories that are current and relevant even if the story is an old one, skilful procurement, viscerality, joy, thrill, shock, grittyness and nittyness, honesty and purpose… and speaking to a range of different people in an auditorium full of (young) people.

I have noticed how, when generating ideas that feel current and contemporary, some makers get blindsided by a self-imposed responsibility to change the world, make good the ills of society, make unhappy children happy, eradicate inequality and place the burden of responsibility for this utopian transformation on the shoulders of the young, and their parents, who are probably having a dim picture painted of them onstage. And for this all to happen within 45 minutes.

Wouldn’t that be great? One trip to the theatre and boom! Equality!

We set our sights lower than this. If everything around us has been normalised and settled before birth; our class, status, health, education, culture, then of course we want to disrupt this view, give it a jolt, heavily question, suggest another possibility.

Yet a lightbulb moment is as much as we can hope for. After all, we are making art, not policy. We are dealing in big ideas and questions, not answers and solutions.

At Incubator 2019 we have been trying to create the best conditions for these excellent and experienced artists to work out how to start making the play

they want to make. This has included a retreat, trips to Belgium, in some instances multiple R and D periods and mentoring.

I think we are known for this now, but we are unusual amongst TYA practitioners, in that we place the artist’s idea first with the audience coming in second. Controversial, eh? As producers of plays, we believe mightily in our audience experience. But as custodians of early stage ideas, we believe mainly in our artist and the flourishment of their idea. The skill comes in navigating the transition.

This considered move runs the risk in the long run of making us unpopular with audiences and programmers, colleagues and the very artists themselves. We choose to confront these obstacles.

But we really do take our young audiences very seriously because we believe that no crime is greater than boredom-inducing theatre. It’s our hunch that constricting the artistic expression of the artist too soon into their process runs the risk of producing that.

The Incubator is as much a business model as it is an artistic one. We give work the time and resources to develop at its own pace but we also believe that a paying public can be a production’s developmental saviour. We feel a sense of urgency to get the work produced. Without co-producers and funding we cannot do this. Today is a brazen and bare-faced pitching process! Please lay aside any preconceptions you may have about the egg as sole owners or instigators of an idea; we invite ideas, we do not necessarily create them. This is an act of midwifery rather than parenting, bringing projects safely into the world and guiding them towards self-sustenance, even though this may occasionally require us to produce some of the pieces ourselves.

The Incubator is funded by The Leverhulme Trust The Leverhulme Trust disburses annual funds of around £60m to support research projects, fellowships, studentships, bursaries and prizes across all academic disciplines that demonstrate originality and help break down conventional barriers between disciplines.

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RUNNING ORDER Thursday 19th September 2019

11.00 11.15 11.30 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30 12.45 13.00 13.15 13.30 13.45 14.00 14.15 14.30 14.45 15.00 15.15 15.30 15.45 16.00 16.15 16.30 16.45 17.00 17.15 17.30 17.45 18.00 18.15 18.30 18.45 19.00

egg egg Auditorium Ustinov Café Arrival and coffee Introduction To Be a Tiger

Bish Marzook

Lunch

Flour Babies and Me

Nicky Werenowska

Break

The Family Sex Show

Bar

Food Band

THURSDAY

Friday 20th September 2019

Friday 20th September 2019

Two-day delegates

Friday Only Delegates

egg Café

egg Auditorium Ustinov

9.30 Arrival 9.45 10.00 10.15 Transporter 10.30 10.45 11.00 The Family Sex Show 11.15 Q&A 11.30 11.45 Zoë 12.00 Svendsen 12.15 12.30 12.45 13.00 13.15 13.30 Lunch 13.45 14.00 14.15 Paper Waves 14.30 Buses appearing Depart 14.45 all day on the Balcony 15.00 15.15 Thank 15.30 Heaven for Little 15.45 Grrrls 16.00 16.15 Buses 16.30 Depart 16.45 To Be a 17.00 Tiger 17.15 17.30 Plenary 17.45 18.00

egg Café

9.30 9.45 10.00 Arrival and 10.15 coffee 10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15 11.30 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30 12.45 13.00 13.15 13.30 13.45 Lunch 14.00 14.15 14.30 Buses Depart 14.45 15.00 15.15 Thank 15.30 Heaven for Little 15.45 Grrrls 16.00 16.15 Buses 16.30 Depart 16.45 17.00 17.15 17.30 17.45 18.00

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Introduction The Family Sex Show

Zoë Svendsen

Flour Babies and Me

Paper Waves appearing all day on the Balcony

To Be a Tiger

Plenary

FRIDAY After each presentation there will be the opportunity to talk about the scratch or ask questions.

Bath Spa University Campus

Early Stages Scratch Finished Piece

Mid Stages Scratch

Libations

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TO BE A TIGER

Early stages scratch Have you ever wanted to be something you’re not?

Alex wants to be a tiger.

Sometimes the distance between wanting and getting is only paper thin.

This is an early stage sharing of Alex’s story told using physical theatre, circus, a little kung fu and a touch of horror.

It is a show for when you don’t fit your own skin.

Although To Be a Tiger is for a young audience, it is also very much for the people who look after them. The show revolves around Alex and her mum, where they meet and where they miss one another. Whereas we started with a clear age-range in mind, at this point in development we are finding it harder to pin down.

Alongside her work as an actor, Nikki has worked extensively in aerial circus, cabaret and physical theatre.

Nikki was joint artistic director of Puppetual Motion, a successful circus-cabaret company, and has worked for numerous circus companies both in the UK and Australia.

Most recent theatre credits include: Hetty Feather (Olivier nominated Kenny Wax Production); Snow Mouse (the egg and Travelling Light Theatre Company); Yana and the Yeti (Pickled Image and Nordland Visual Theatre).

To Be a Tiger

Writer/Deviser/Performer Deviser/Performer Devising Facilitator Choreography Consultant Introduced by

Nikki Warwick Gwen Scott Jimmy Whiteaker Karla Shacklock Laura Knight, Creative Learning Producer

Nikki Warwick is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in Theatre for Young Audiences.

Thanks to

Kate Cross, Tim Bell, David Lane, Laura Purcell-Gates, Bath Spa University.

This project has been publicly funded through Arts Council England & the National Lottery.

Future Plans

We aim to secure funding to purchase a free-standing Chinese pole. This will also result in greater portability and give us tour potential for a greater range of theatrical spaces.

We would love to collaborate with producers and venues to continue making this work. For more information contact warwicknikki80@gmail.com

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YOUR DOODLES AND THOUGHTS Action points for yourself What can you offer this artist?

To take this project to the next stage, Nikki would like...

Support from co-producers

Tour dates from autumn 2020

£35,000 to make the show (or smaller contributions to make up a similar sum)

Rehearsal space in the South West

Support from a tour booker

Ticked a box? You might be able to help... please do get in touch with Nikki or a member of the egg team

A space for your notes

Action points for us What to do with your post-it notes On an attached post-it note, please write the name of the play, describe what you think it is ‘about’ and suggest the target age.

On another post-it note, please write the name of the play and suggest one action point for the artist.

Please give us your post-it notes at the end of the day.

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FLOUR BABIES AND ME

Early stages scratch

Annie Fine’s book Flour Babies was the starting point for what is now part retelling of the book and part autobiography. It weaves Simon’s endeavours (protagonist in the book) with Jenny’s journey to get some answers about our fathers. They are both Flour Babies and caught up in a mess of family secrets. It is also about growing up deaf in an all hearing family. And washing up.

Jenny Sealey and Mike Kenny, one of the leading writers for young people in the UK, are long time collaborators, first working together in1989 making plays about other people’s lives. But this time she has given him her life for him to make sense of. The ambition for this is to tell a story simply with some photos and some film and to demonstrate the need, the truth, the resilience of humans and the basic but fundamental importance of being loved.

Jenny has been Graeae’s Artistic Director since 1997. She has pioneered a new theatrical language and aesthetics of artistic access experimenting with bilingual BSL (Bristish Sign Language) and English, prerecorded BSL, creative captioning and in-ear/ live audio description methods. Two, The Fall of the House of Usher, peeling, Bent, Blasted (2005), Diary of an Action Man, Blood Wedding (Japan), Romeo and Juliet (Japan and Bangladesh) are particular examples. This ‘aesthetic’ now influences all Graeae’s independent and co-produced work.

Outdoor productions include Against the Tide; The Iron Man; The Garden and This Is Not For You as part of 14-18Now with disabled veterans.

In 2009, she was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Honours list. Jenny co-directed the London 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony alongside Bradley Hemmings (GDIF). The same year she won the Liberty Human Rights Arts Award.

For Flour Babies Writer Writer/Actor BSL Interpreter Projections Outside Eye Sound Design Stage Manager Introduced by

Mike Kenny Jenny Sealey Jude Mahon Jonah Sealey Braverman Tim Bell Dinah Mullen Kay Hudson Joe Spurgeon, Engage Coordinator

Jenny Sealey is a Leverhulme Arts Scholar.

Thanks to

Mike was the only person Jenny could trust to do this project, but Tim Bell, Tim Crouch, Ursula Martinez and Jude Mahon, a sign language interpreter (who has worked with Jenny for 17 years), have asked the many questions to allow the secrets to unfold. Jenny’s son Jonah has been in charge of all visual matter. He is, after all, a film maker and it is also his story. Anne Fine has been incredibly generous about allowing the rights of the book to play with.

Future Plans

Our ambition is to find partners and funders to support the making of the full solo show, which we hope to be no longer than 55 minutes max and for audiences aged 10 -100.

For more information contact tim.bell@theatreroyal.org.uk.

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YOUR DOODLES AND THOUGHTS Action points for yourself What can you offer this artist?

To take this project to the next stage, Jenny would like...

Commissioning money

Co-Producers

An indication that you might want to be involved in the show (in any capacity!)

A Director

A Designer

Something we haven’t thought about yet!

Ticked a box? You might be able to help... please do get in touch with Tim Bell at the egg.

A space for your notes

Action points for us What to do with your post-it notes On an attached post-it note, please write the name of the play, describe what you think it is ‘about’ and suggest the target age.

On another post-it note, please write the name of the play and suggest one action point for the artist.

Please give us your post-it notes at the end of the day.

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THE FAMILY SEX SHOW

Mid stages scratch

A family comedy about sex, pleasure and love.

The show will put pleasure at the forefront of the conversation and imagine a future where there is no shame. It will be a celebration of difference, equality and self-acceptance.

The Family Sex Show will be a fun & silly performance where parents & children (currently 5+) are invited to laugh at the oh-so-serious & painfully AWKWARD subject of sex. The show will play with theatrical styles, challenging our thinking around both theatre for young audiences in the UK & Sex Education.

ThisEgg is Josie Dale-Jones, who self-produces, co-creates & performs with a variety of artistic collaborators.

Her most recent show dressed. premiered at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe to critical acclaim, receiving a Scotsman Fringe First as well as a nomination for ThisEgg for Total Theatre Awards’ Emerging Company 2018. ThisEgg won the inaugural Underbelly and New Diorama Untapped Award 2018 for early-mid career theatre companies.

For The Family Sex Show Producer Dramaturg Composer Set & Costume Design Lighting Design & Stage Management Mentor Introduced by Post-Scratch Discussion Chaired by

Josie Dale-Jones Laurence Cook John Biddle Camilla Clarke Lucy Adams Lyn Gardner James Moore, Head of Creative Learning Lyn Gardner

Josie Dale-Jones is a Leverhulme Arts Scholar.

Collaborators and performers

Josie Dale-Jones, Joe Boylan, Greta Mitchell, Mark Fitzgerald, Katie Greenall, Amelia Cavallo, Kimberley Harvey, John Biddle, Keziah Joseph.

Other collaborators include: Stephanie Levi-John, Petra Massey, Ryan Lane, Tiiu Mortley.

Thanks to

Kate Cross and Tim Bell, National Theatre Studio, Battersea Arts Centre, Paines Plough, Shoreditch Town Hall, The Garage, Pleasance Theatre, Outspoken, Sexplain, Goedele Liekens and all our Family Test Audiences.

This project has been publicly funded through Arts Council England & the National Lottery.

Future Plans

We hope to undertake a further two weeks’ writing time, six weeks’ development, collaborative devising and rehearsals, after which which the show is available for touring from Autumn 2020 onwards. ThisEgg are working with Sexplain, Outspoken and the egg to design a programme of wraparound activity for audiences.

This activity can take place before, after and during a run. For more information contact josie@thisegg.co.uk

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YOUR DOODLES AND THOUGHTS Action points for yourself What can you offer this artist?

To take this project to the next stage, Josie would like...

Show bookings. (I am looking to tour this show from Autumn 2020 onwards. I am especially looking for venues who are up for having the show times closer to their general theatre programme i.e. evenings, as well as at an after school time rather than just weekend mornings and matinees and holidays. The show can go in both the family programme as well as the theatre programmes. It is a show for everyone.)

Money - ThisEgg will be producing lead. Supporting/developing partners: £0-8K, Commissioning £8-15K, Co-producing partners: £20-40K.

Five weeks rehearsal space in London, Jan-July 2020. Outside London would be super welcome but would need to include accommodation and travel costs.

One week Production/Technical space and support in London, June/July 2020. Outside London would be super welcome but would need to include accommodation and travel costs.

All buildings and spaces need to be accessible.

Ticked a box? You might be able to help... please do get in touch with Josie or a member of the egg team

A space for your notes

Action points for us What to do with your post-it notes On an attached post-it note, please write the name of the play, describe what you think it is ‘about’ and suggest the target age.

On another post-it note, please write the name of the play and suggest one action point for the artist.

Please give us your post-it notes at the end of the day.

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THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE GRRRLS Mid stages scratch

Thank Heaven for Little Grrrls is a new piece of dance conceived by Jenni Jackson, co-produced with the Lowry’s ‘Developed With’ Programme, and supported by The Place Jenni Jackson is a British/Bolivian actor, theatre maker, and movement director.

Her credits include Death of a Salesman, Queens of the Coal Age and Our Town (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Mountaintop (Young Vic), Be My Baby, Around The World in 80 Days (Leeds Playhouse), Scenes From an Execution (National Theatre).

You can read Jenni’s reflections on her process on page 12.

The cast:

Khanyi Akinsiku, Blaise Arbuckle, Ella Ben Ezra, Juno Chatwin, Priscillia Densie-Mujinga, Sienna-Lee Freckleton, Alice Jarrett, Baudelaire Macdonald-Smith, Amayah Modiano, Grace Ryan, Ava Simpson, Minnie Trottford, Arwen Ward, Marlene Werthern-Pilch, Poppy Wright.

Director/Choereographer Sound Design Family Liaison Officer Play Specialist and Consultant Anarchist Teaching Assistant For the Lowry For the Place For the egg Mentors Introduced by Post-Scratch Discussion Chaired by

Jenni Jackson Dinah Mullen Louise Clohesy Di Murray Emma Lamond Claire Symonds, Senior Producer: Artist Development Lia Prentaki, Youth and Families Producer Tim Bell and Kate Cross.

Carly Wijs and David Harradine Kate Cross, Director, the egg Carly Wijs

Jenni Jackson is a Leverhulme Arts Scholar.

Thanks to:

Anthony Gray, Tian Glasgow, Alexandra Faye Braithwaite, Kay O’Brien and everyone at Pearson Street Adventure Playground in Hackney, Emily Romain, Sarah Frankcom, Roberta Zuric, Simon Carroll-Jones, Dani Parr and Robin Holloway, Heidi, Oscar, Sebastian and Saiorse McEntee, Jo and Evie Jones, and Abigail Graham and Tom Hughes.

Future Plans

Our ambition is to find partners and funders to support the making of the full show following this work-inprogress sharing of our ideas so far, and to tour the show across the UK and beyond. For more information contact tim.bell@theatreroyal.org.uk or claire.symonds@thelowry.com 10

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YOUR DOODLES AND THOUGHTS Action points for yourself What can you offer this artist?

To take this project to the next stage, Jenni would like...

Key contacts at organisations who can help us to be more inclusive, specifically addressing areas of disability

Potential co-commissioning or programming partners to support the next stage of development, including those in major dance houses

A Lighting Designer

A co-producer with the infrastructure to help us tour the finished show

Connections who can support and advise us as we continue to investigate ideas around using tools onstage

Something we haven’t thought about yet!

Ticked a box? You might be able to help... please do get in touch with Tim or Claire or a member of the egg team

A space for your notes

Action points for us What to do with your post-it notes On an attached post-it note, please write the name of the play, describe what you think it is ‘about’ and suggest the target age.

On another post-it note, please write the name of the play and suggest one action point for the artist.

Please give us your post-it notes at the end of the day.

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THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE GRRRLS Reflections on the process by Leverhulme Arts Scholar Jenni Jackson and her Incubator Mentor David Harradine.

Thank Heaven for Little Grrrls asks what a world created by girls might feel like, and what might happen if girls are given a chance to take up space and take up our time.

Co-created by artist Jenni Jackson and a group of fifteen girls aged 8-12, the piece uses dance, movement, tools and play to ask whether girls can ever be seen for who they actually are.

I have gone down a zip wire and been told that I am going to die by an 8 year-old girl.

I have listened to a 10 year-old and 9-year old tell me about their kill list.

I have been pranked with red food dye to fake injuries. I was not ok with that, and then I thought it was brilliant.

They take pleasure, recklessly.

I have watched them improvise with movement and tasks in a way that adult performers could only dream of.

I have discovered they all want to go somewhere snowy and icy and beautiful.

I have listened to them talk about flying.

They coerce, tenderly.

I have given them my practice and they have taken it on, climbed inside it, and set it on fire.

I have given them my practice and they have not given a shit.

They become themselves, powerfully.

I have witnessed how aware they are of gender bias and I am not ok with that.

I have watched a 9 year-old scream “YOU CAN DO IT� endlessly to an 11-year old who was completing a herculean task.

I have been challenged to rethink who and what girls are. I invite you to rethink that too.

They resist, fiercely.

They will take our time.

We will watch them.

Oh, and death to the patriarchy!

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SPEAKERS

This year we have invited our Leverhulme Arts Scholars to each nominate a speaker to give a talk which invites us to think about the world in different ways.

Thursday 19th September at 12.45pm Bish Marzook: Representations and realities – what science can do for little grrrls Introduced by Jenni Jackson

Bish Marzook is a scientist, writer, and comedian - definitely in that order if you ask her parents. She currently works at The Francis Crick Institute in London, looking at the intersection between infections and cancer. She moved to the UK after completing her PhD in virology in Sydney, Australia, where she also worked as a comedian and writer.

She co-ran Wolf Comedy, a Sydney comedy room committed to promoting diversity in comedy, has written for Australian news satire websites, and featured on local and national radio representing both her comedic and scientific talents.

Thursday 19th September at 3.30pm Nicky Werenowska: Why neurodiversity matters?

Introduced by Jenny Sealey

An exploration of Nicky’s personal process as a neurodiversity playwright and what is good practice for neurodiverse artists. Nicky’s credits include Hampstead Theatre, the Royal Court, Graeae Theatre, the Mercury Theatre, Eastern Angles, the New Wolsey Theatre, Unity Theatre and Salisbury Playhouse. She co-wrote the Christmas adaptation of Little Dorrit for BBC Radio 4 and is playwright in residence at Essex University.

Friday 20th September at 11.45am Zoë Svendsen: To whom does the story of the future belong?

Culture, climate change and capitalism Introduced by Josie Dale-Jones

Zoë will be talking about the work she’s been doing in participatory performance over the past few years, in which she’s been trying to find forms for addressing the extraordinary crises of our times, particularly the entwined dangers of capitalism and climate change – and sharing some thoughts about what this might mean for the future of our audiences, and our culture. Zoe directs the performing arts company METIS (www.metisarts.co.uk).

All talks take place in the Ustinov auditorium, which can be accessed via the egg café.

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TRANSPORTER

Finished piece For ages 10+ When was the last time you were transported?

Together we will go on a journey across continents and years, down city streets, through deserts, over oceans, asking questions that echo through history.

Transporter is a bold, spellbinding show, born out of a belief in the power of words to transport. Just one performer in an empty space, and an audience. An act of shared imagination. A kind of magic that happens...when you simply listen to a story.

This is the story of a girl called Maya. A girl who is always thirteen. A girl who is always on the move. A never-ending search for the last safe place on Earth.

Developed through Theatr Iolo’s artist development programme, Platfform, Transporter was written in Newport, where conversations with local young people inspired a story of universal and timeless resonance.

Theatr Iolo is an award-winning theatre company, which has been at the forefront of theatre for children and young people for over thirty years. Babies, children, teenagers, parents and teachers have enjoyed our performances and workshops across Wales, the UK and internationally.

We create quality experiences that are stimulating, surprising and special for children of all ages and backgrounds, to help them make sense of the world around them and to find their place in it.

For Transporter

Writer / Performer Director Sound Design Introduced by

Catherine Dyson Andy Smith Lewis Gibson Lee Lyford, Theatr Iolo Artistic Director

Thanks to

Thanks to our funders and supporters Arts Council of Wales, Esmee Fairbairn and The Riverfront for the development of this production in our Platfform project.

Future Plans

We are hoping to book a UK tour of Transporter in Autumn 2020 and look for international opportunities.

For more information contact Lee Lyford on lee@theatriolo.com

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YOUR DOODLES AND THOUGHTS Action points for yourself What can you offer this artist?

To take this project to the next stage, Catherine would like...

Tour dates

Support from a tour booker for a Scotland and England tour

Support from a co-producer

International opportunities

Ticked a box? You might be able to help... please do get in touch with Lee or a member of the egg team

A space for your notes

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PAPER WAVES

Finished piece Waves have always been a means of carrying information. Being visible or invisible, electromagnetic or of the sea, waves are traditional carriers of stories and of knowledge.

Paper Waves blend in. A tangible tactile wave, its sound not too dissimilar to the water on a shore.

The rustling of the turning pages. The sea that connects us all.

So why a library with picture books from around the world?

Well, what defines a nation more than its language, its stories and its art? Paper Waves brings the three together in one small mobile place. It has been created to spark curiosity for global languages, art and stories and to share this cultural wealth our vibrant and colourful world has to offer with all.

Margarita Sidirokastrit is a theatre practitioner, a generator of ideas and maybe a producer. She writes fun stuff (when she is not writing funding application forms). She has completed an MA in Theatre for Young Audiences and she is an associate artist at the egg theatre. Her first play One Item Only/Taking Flight was produced by the egg and she has at least another five finished or semi-finished ideas waiting for a brave producer!

Future Plans I came up with the idea of the library while I was driving. I saw a mobile library vehicle and I thought how terrible it is that services like this are losing their funding and very soon will be no more. My original idea, and the long term ambition, is that Paper Waves becomes a big mobile library that travels around Europe and carries books and artists from one country to the next as a means to meet our neighbours and to dissolve the fear and prejudice. I imagine it as a travelling celebration that sets up in village squares and offers art workshops, theatre and coffee (or tea) to the local people. It is part funded by Creative Europe or even the Arts Council and part generates its own income. The vehicle is large enough to sleep three people and it has a piano (why not!) and a coffee machine.

In the real world the Paper Waves travelling trunk is the set for a gorgeous focused table-top puppet play. It goes around schools, festivals and fairs offering theatre, literature and a wealth of workshops. It has grown its collection of books enough to be thought of as a stand-alone cultural resource that people are visiting for its interesting installations and exhibitions by theme. It has a team of four people who love books, speak a few languages and are highly organised and fun.

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YOUR DOODLES AND THOUGHTS Action points for yourself What can you offer this artist?

To take this project to the next stage, Margarita would like...

ÂŁ15,000 to create a play to accompany the library trunk

Help with European and British funding

A Tour Booker

Ideas about where it could go next (artistically) and how

Financial help to extend the content

Financial help to buy and convert a vehicle into the touring library

Anything that hasn’t been thought of !

Ticked a box? You might be able to help... please do get in touch with Margarita or a member of the egg team

A space for your notes

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FURTHER INFORMATION For Incubator enquiries, please contact: Tim Bell, Creative Producer Kate Cross, Director, the egg

tim.bell@theatreroyal.org.uk kate.cross@theatreroyal.org.uk

For The Incubator Showcase: Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Managers Assistant Producer Trainee Producers

BSC Interpretation Audio Description Catering Filmmaker Photography Programme Design

Melody Lewis Kay Hudson Daniela Sutcliffe, Emily Rumble Judit Ferrer Edan Saunders, Nem Bengry-Howell, Erin Fletcher Rowbotham Pascale Maroney, Jude Mahon, Julia Thorp Tiffany Burr Garrick’s Head Pub Camilla Adams www.camillaadams.com Jack Offord www.jackofford.co.uk Nick Morris www.wallisagency.co.uk

For the egg: Director Manager Creative Producer Head of Creative Learning Creative Learning Producer Engage Coordinator Creative Learning Administrator Artistic Director Theatre School Executive Director Theatre School Development Manager Chief Studio Technician Deputy Studio Technician Financial Administrator

The egg is pleased to be in a Creative Partnership with Bath Spa University. In addition to providing industry experience for undergraduate Performing Arts and Theatre Production students.

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Kate Cross Lindsay Baker Tim Bell James Moore Laura Knight Joe Spurgeon Tracey Cook Sophie Jacobs-Wyburn Alex Duarte-Davies Andrea Harris Lloyd Evans Phil Coote Emma Bryant

Delivered by the egg in partnership with Bath College, Bath Theatre Academy is a creative education initiative aiming to broaden perceptions about the theatre young people are capable of making. Through the delivery of a UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Performing & Production Arts, we are passionate about empowering the next generation of theatremakers to go boldly.

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GETTING AROUND Map of the egg

Entrance to the Ustinov auditorium is via the egg cafĂŠ 19

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For further information on any of these shows please contact Lindsay Baker – lindsay.baker@theatreroyal.org.uk

Muckers

I Wish I Was A Mountain

by Caroline Horton For ages 7 - 107

By Toby Thompson Ages 6+ Incubated by the egg.

An international coproduction between the egg, Oxford Playhouse, Theatr Iolo and Conde Duque.

‘It really is a must see for all ages’ Exeunt Magazine ‘Gloriously knotty’ The Guardian

Based on Faldum A fairy tale by Hermann Hesse Incubated by the egg.

Co-produced by the egg and Travelling Light Theatre.

‘Reveals Thompson as a star in the making’ ★★★★ Chris Wiegland, The Guardian

Josephine

Snow Mouse

Incubated by the egg. Produced by Bear Trap Theatre in association with the egg, Wales Millennium Centre, Theatr Iolo and possibly you...

A co-production between the egg and Travelling Light Theatre.

Ages 8+

Josephine Baker is the most famous black woman you’ve never heard of !

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Ages 3 months - 4 years

Week-long residencies advised / Three performances per day ‘Delightful’ ★★★★ The Stage