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G+ & LinkedIn Marysia Trembecka creativity, marketing, author, musician, actor, novelist, positive, thinking, interviews, tips, advice Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows marysia13@googlemail.com no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/07/04/how-to-create-a-solo-theatre-show-interview-with-colin-watkeys/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/07/04/how-to-create-a-solo-theatre-show-interview-with-colin-watkeys/#respond Fri, 04 Jul 2014 23:33:38 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3195 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/07/04/how-to-create-a-solo-theatre-show-interview-with-colin-watkeys/feed/ 0 0:12:11 Over  the  past  30  years,  Face  to  Face  Theatre  Festival  Director  Colin  Watkeys  has   specialised  in  producing  and  directing  solo  theatre  and  writers  who  perform  their  own   work.  He  is  now  part  of  a  world  movement  tha[...] Over  the  past  30  years,  Face  to  Face  Theatre  Festival  Director  Colin  Watkeys  has   specialised  in  producing  and  directing  solo  theatre  and  writers  who  perform  their  own   work.  He  is  now  part  of  a  world  movement  that  recognises  that  solo  performance   possesses  a  unique  quality  of  vision  in  theatre.  I am performing part of my next solo theatre show The Singing Psychic at the Lost Theatre on July 8th so I took the opportunity to interview Colin Here are some of the highlights (this is not a full transcript of the podcast interview, to listen to it press the arrow above.) I asked Colin for one piece of advice to anyone who wants to write and develop a show and he said ‘Character. Character and narrative. Narrative is the character and the character is the narrative. Don’t try to manipulate anything, don’t try to put words into their mouths. Get to know the character and their narrative and it writes itself. Claire Dowie famously said she does not remember writing any of her work. From her point of view the character does write it. The guy she plays, she taps in that person’s life, she calls it getting away with telling lies’ (her wiki) Like Picasso ‘The lies we tell to tell the truth’, but if you take on someone else’s history you become a different character, it can affect the way you move. One play that Claire did she played 4 characters in, 2 male, and a middle aged woman and an older woman, all played by herself. Someone asked afterwards, as there was a short blackout ‘I was very surprised when you put lipstick on in the blackout’ but she had not actually done so. Colin did wonder how you can act lipstick but the audience had the impression that for a middle aged, middle class woman she always had lipstick on. Thats a challenge ‘act lipstick’ but the point is when you really see all the characters in your story yourself, the audience does too. When you imagine the richness of the scenes, how you felt, where you were the audience recreates that directly themselves in a far more kaleidoscopic world than in a film. He is always fascinated with solo theatre and performers. For a while he ran the Finborough for stand ups as he was interested in their relationships with the audience. He wants theatre to be like jazz so that people get up and it just happens, not with a set, not with a script. He does like scripts as well but he likes everything to be created in the audience’s imagination and no tacky sets or effects. It is what he likes, from working with stand up comedians but then it got boring as he then was coaching them for auditions for TV pilots, most of whom have got TV series now. He enjoyed most working up with Claire Dowie who used to do what she called ‘Stand Up Theatre’ and Ken Campbell, director, writer, actor including A Fish Called Wanda imdb link here) and comic who loved creating it there and then, he called it ‘real acting’ Ken Campbell used to say ‘The script’s there for a bad day when the geezer is not there, but when the geezer is actually there you just let go, you just do it’ Ken Campbell’s obituary That is what Claire, Ken and Colin have in common, he knows it is not for everyone but when he sees a play he just wants to hone down to the one performer who has an interesting relationship with the audience, he thinks they could just do all of it. That’s what he loves. I asked about retelling Shakespeare from a solo performer perspective and I mention Patrick Stewart’s one man ‘A Christmas Carol’ where he told the whole story himself and Colin mentioned the Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’ with the different perspectives of Hamlet and each other. I ask what Colin thinks he brings to our work as a performer. He has no idea what he brings, he just knows that it will not be better with more people, nor with a set, he is interested in the relationship between the performer and the audience. People have said what he is talking about is ju[...] Actors, Directors, Inspiration, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/06/how-to-avoid-artistically-starving-to-death-market-yourself-hard/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/06/how-to-avoid-artistically-starving-to-death-market-yourself-hard/#comments Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:00:10 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2631 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/06/how-to-avoid-artistically-starving-to-death-market-yourself-hard/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/12/how-to-use-ticket-prices-and-prizes-to-improve-your-sales/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/12/how-to-use-ticket-prices-and-prizes-to-improve-your-sales/#respond Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:13:38 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1286 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/12/how-to-use-ticket-prices-and-prizes-to-improve-your-sales/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/09/podcast-pt-1-earl-okin-legendary-entertainer-on-audience-charm-18-edinburghs/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/09/podcast-pt-1-earl-okin-legendary-entertainer-on-audience-charm-18-edinburghs/#comments Mon, 08 Jul 2013 23:31:47 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1251 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/09/podcast-pt-1-earl-okin-legendary-entertainer-on-audience-charm-18-edinburghs/feed/ 1 0:31:54 Love Your Creativity is all about keeping myself and you focused on creativity whether you are an artist, actor, musician, playwright or film director This is Part One of a Two Part interview with Earl Okin, and some brief highlights of the podcast [...] Love Your Creativity is all about keeping myself and you focused on creativity whether you are an artist, actor, musician, playwright or film director This is Part One of a Two Part interview with Earl Okin, and some brief highlights of the podcast are noted below. To listen to the podcast just press the arrow above. I have posted this in two parts: he has so much great advice that I couldn’t bear to cut any, the first part largely covers his comedy, knowing who he is as an artist and the second his music making and touring. Earl Okin, singer, songwriter, pianist, comedian He was on stage at three years of age, has opened for Paul McCartney and Wings on their 1980s world tour, he is an incredibly funny and talented performer who has spent his last 60 years entertaining. Due to his family’s history he has echoes of the music hall but has “Entertainer” on his passport, a one man variety show. He stopped in 2000 at Edinburgh having done 18 years straight, a record at the time of being most performed there. His advice on doing Edinburgh – don’t spend any money you don’t have to, don’t take ads especially now the Edinburgh brochure has split up’, have the minimal number of posters down and not in technicolour as they cost more. Info on your posters on big black letters, have a silly title ‘Whoops Vicky you’ve split the packet’, the fewer words the better as then you can print them in bigger font. Stay somewhere very cheap, he was at the same place for 15 years. Always drive, a car is invaluable in Edinburgh.   He has a wealth of knowledge on performing and music, he has a huge range of musical interests. He has an incredible connection with an audience, you need to build up enough confidence to not give a damn. Be relaxed with audiences, he has died on stage but it is rare, he expects the audience to like him and that gives him an air of confidence as he walks on stage that makes the audience relax. He always wanted to be the first Earl Okin, he is not an impressionist and does not want to be compared to anyone else. He does not think of himself as a musical comedian as they few and far between Dick James signed him in the 60s with the Beatles but his heroes were Puccini and Caruso and dresses like them. One of his last Edinburgh shows ‘Musical genius and sex symbol’ Audience charm, you have to develop your own audience charm – that can have aggression in but there needs to be that connection, that twinkle. They have to like you and then they will forgive you your bad jokes. He developed in folk clubs first, comedy clubs then having to make the jokes as lean as possible and then deliver it as if you had just thought of it. He tries the jokes different ways round, as do many comics. He sometimes stumbles over the words on purpose. The comedy is about him rather than his material. Writing comedy song is only judged about the words, the music does not matter. When writing a comedy song think one idea or taking off point. He gives a great example of this. With a melody for a straight piece the music is the main thing, the words are largely irrelevant, you can hear the harmony under the melody and that carries the tune. We finished with a jam, Earl on piano, singing and doing a ‘faux’ trumpet and me singing His Podcast His Website Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it. About Marysia and Love Your Creativity I blog at least three times a week on creativity and techniques to get your art on. Whether you are a musician, an actor or a choreographer I endeavour to make https://loveyourcreativity.com is a place to come for inspiration and motivation. I also podcast interviews and this weekly newsletter via podcast with a 13 minute task. The dance music I use Londontown, is a track I wrote years ago and Andrew Hyde and I are currently working on 3 remixes of it. We will be releasing it very soon as a dance track, dub step mix and bar mix.[...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no