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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/2015/06/15/multi-award-winning-playwright-performer-claire-dowie-interview/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/06/15/multi-award-winning-playwright-performer-claire-dowie-interview/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:24:05 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3469 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/06/15/multi-award-winning-playwright-performer-claire-dowie-interview/feed/ 1 0:27:58 – ‘I just do it. ….when I say I don’t care, I mean I don’t care whether there is an audience, I don’t care whether there is any money,  it seems to just turn up, the money and the audience. I have never done anyt[...] – ‘I just do it. ….when I say I don’t care, I mean I don’t care whether there is an audience, I don’t care whether there is any money,  it seems to just turn up, the money and the audience. I have never done anything I don’t want to do… and why not? I think if you are true to yourself then it will be alright, if you are trying to be like somebody else, or trying to do like somebody else then it’s not going to work.’ Claire Dowie is a multi award winning playwright, actress, director, performer and oftentimes comic. Her plays have been translated into many different languages and her first novel Creating Chaos was published last year. Her two most famous plays ADULT CHILD DEAD CHILD is on the A level Drama British curriculum and WHY IS JOHN LENNON WEARING A SKIRT on the A level English Literature British curriculum. She is performing them alongside three other of her plays at the Festival of Solo Festival: Best Of The Fest festival from June 30th to July 12th. Colin Watkeys has directed her for over 30 years and is a well known solo theatre director and he interjects throughout the interview. Claire and I are doing a double header with her play ‘Why is John Lennon wearing a skirt?’ and my ‘The Singing Psychic’ show on July 3rd and the 8th at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington, London both plays directed by Colin. Thursday 2nd July  at 7.30pm  and Wednesday 8th July  at 7.30pmFor more details on the Face to face: festival of solo theatre and for bookings please go to http://www.solotheatrefestival.co.uk/ Hit the play in popup to play the podcast or go to the Love Your Creativity iTunes podcast In this podcast interview we cover how Claire feels about making the work, how she feels she is not an actress and how the characters dictate the plays to her. Inevitably given Adult Child Dead Child is about expectations and the John Lennon play about women growing up amid low expectations feminism, being a female comic or performer in still a very full on man’s world and how to create and work on a character. Highlights include How she feels she just sits down and reads the paper and her characters write the plays for her. This is however after she has spent a lot of time with the character, seeing how they react in certain situations How Claire feels when plays on feminism and women having a voice are still relevant according to the feedback she has been getting from the ‘younger generation’ How male reviewers assume automatically that men are funny and male playwrights are good and  yet when it comes to women, she has seen far too many men walk to the bar when a female comic comes on stage What it feels like to have other people perform your work How she always manages to write, make, produce and tour the shows: she feels the characters make her do so. How she doesn’t care about other people’s opinions when she is writing, that you must trust your own instincts and not listen to what you think other people want to hear, when you are writing a play The inspiration behind her Bob Dylan tarot cards Her advice to us all is just to get out and do it And a lot of laughter If you enjoyed this you may also like my podcast interview with Colin Watkeys about developing your own solo theatre show https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/07/04/how-to-create-a-solo-theatre-show-interview-with-colin-watkeys/ Both Claire and I are also taking shows to the Camden Fringe 2015,www.SingingPsychic.tv to book tickets for my Camden Fringe show of The Singing Psychic, Aug 17th to the 22nd 2015 at 9.15pm each night go to http://tristanbatestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-singing-psychic–camden-fringe-2015 or http://www.camdenfringe.com/detailact.php?acts_id=321 http://www.clairedowie.co.uk For Claire and Martin Stewart’s show http://www.camdenfringe.com/detailact.php?acts_id=179     Directors, Inspiration, Motivation, Podcast, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/21/riding-on-the-rollercoaster-of-a-creative-life/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/21/riding-on-the-rollercoaster-of-a-creative-life/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:00:39 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3388 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/21/riding-on-the-rollercoaster-of-a-creative-life/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/06/how-to-be-a-successful-creative-create-in-the-corners-of-your-life/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/06/how-to-be-a-successful-creative-create-in-the-corners-of-your-life/#respond Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:23:08 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3370 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/06/how-to-be-a-successful-creative-create-in-the-corners-of-your-life/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/10/11/journal-your-inner-critic-learn-from-her/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/10/11/journal-your-inner-critic-learn-from-her/#respond Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:09:12 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3323 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/10/11/journal-your-inner-critic-learn-from-her/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/10/07/16-tips-on-writing-a-press-release-bios/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/10/07/16-tips-on-writing-a-press-release-bios/#respond Tue, 07 Oct 2014 14:00:22 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3300 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/10/07/16-tips-on-writing-a-press-release-bios/feed/ 0 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. 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Podcast interview with some highlights below. She is not a trained pro[...] Georgina Sowerby is a successful actress, having worked at the National, the Royal Court as well as on various TV and film projects and is the co-founder of Dirty Market Theatre. Podcast interview with some highlights below. She is not a trained producer, she learns as the piece demands. However production is very much part of making your own work. She talks about the devising process of Dirty Market Theatre. Make a mini performance to show your ideas, making little tableaus and things have strange connections. One of the questions was ‘What is your favourite fairy tale for now’ and out of that they have devised a fairy tale for adults. Fairy tales are gory, dark and looking at the older fairy tales is very different from the saccharine of todays childrens’ programmes. We talk about devising, establishing the through line of the narrative, how an audience and critics likes to have a central message. In contemporary art we do not expect a narrative but in theatre the audience is very educated. Oxbow Lakes is immersive in that the audience is promenaded and also involved emotionally in the characters, using three different spaces within the previously unused for theatre site. We mention PunchDrunk and YouMeBumBum Train. Georgina and her business and life partner Jon Lee are co-directors in Dirty Market Theatre and we discuss how you work out the schedule of family and creating art. The joy of making your own stuff is because you get creative control and as an actor sometimes you are not meant to have creative ideas. Anyone in the space be it set designer, lighting or actor, all their views are valid. Dirty Market call themselves ‘theatre bricoleur’, French for DIY, so using music, art, philosophy and you tinker with it rather than having a grand scheme. Picasso says )paraphrased) ‘You have a concept for a painting, but the moment the pink paint hits the canvas, the painting speaks to you” So a framework is good but you need to be able to move within it. Robert Altman ‘Pick any 5 great moments in my films and they all will be mistakes’ We talk on how mistakes work, and how a player is missing ‘the audience’ before you start the show. The live aspect. Jon Lee wants to make a film but Georgina is in love with the live performance but is reassured that it will be ‘arthouse’ I have learnt in both Jon and Georgina’s classes about Bacchus, the muse. We talked about moving from being a successful actress to devising. Georgina went to Drama Centre but then assisted James Neale-Kennely She loves the empowerment of emplying the resources in the room, and being inspired by group work. She has been very inspired by Anne Bogart’s work and being delighted with what people to bring.   How has she kept the fire going within art and theatre? Georgina replied ‘Being really stubborn and having the realisation that she is not constitutionally able to wait for someone to allow her to be creative. Her background is when you want to go and paint you just do so, not wait for someone to tell you. She loves making opportunities for herself and others. She has the wonderful analogy of a chick pushing through the egg and how it needs aggression to live. Her determination is about having a choice about your life. This is why she loves teaching adults and opening their lives and hearts. I talk about the Meissner high when adults finally feel free to express She loves being an actor but hates the business of being an actor with sending CV’s out, Shirley Henderson ‘Eventually you have to decide what makes you happy’ and Georgina has found another way of doing it, by A designer, Sutra Gilmour ‘Don’t try to be original, be personal” OXBOW LAKES 4th – 28th September ’13 Wednesday – Saturday at 7:30pm For tickets and more information: www.dirtymarket.co.uk Georgina and Jon do Rough Classics, workshops on devising – link here http://www.dirtymarket.co.uk/here About Marysia and Love Your Creativity I blog at least three times a we[...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/08/14/how-to-network-spotlight-podcast/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/08/14/how-to-network-spotlight-podcast/#respond Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:32:55 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1526 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/08/14/how-to-network-spotlight-podcast/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/28/how-to-market-a-play-make-a-viral-video-teaser/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/28/how-to-market-a-play-make-a-viral-video-teaser/#comments Sun, 28 Jul 2013 12:13:06 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1369 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/28/how-to-market-a-play-make-a-viral-video-teaser/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/27/advice-on-how-to-improve-onstage-presence/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/27/advice-on-how-to-improve-onstage-presence/#respond Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:16:58 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1357 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/27/advice-on-how-to-improve-onstage-presence/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/09/qa-with-dennis-kelly-writer-of-matilda-pulling-utopia/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/09/qa-with-dennis-kelly-writer-of-matilda-pulling-utopia/#comments Mon, 08 Jul 2013 23:32:14 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1033 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/09/qa-with-dennis-kelly-writer-of-matilda-pulling-utopia/feed/ 2 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/15/pt-9-what-gifts-do-inaction-procrastination-give-you/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/15/pt-9-what-gifts-do-inaction-procrastination-give-you/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 23:07:37 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=760 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/15/pt-9-what-gifts-do-inaction-procrastination-give-you/feed/ 3 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/23/some-small-love-story-simple-beautiful-storytelling/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/23/some-small-love-story-simple-beautiful-storytelling/#respond Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=110 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/23/some-small-love-story-simple-beautiful-storytelling/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/20/timothy-west-inspiring-actors-for-generations-to-come/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/20/timothy-west-inspiring-actors-for-generations-to-come/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:58:25 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=101 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/20/timothy-west-inspiring-actors-for-generations-to-come/feed/ 1