Things have been quiet in Standby HQ for the last couple of months, but it all looks set to heat up again soon! We've worked out a plan for our next project: a site-specific piece, devised by the company and based in a building in Stratford.
It's going to be a unique challenge - some of us have never really devised before, and some have never worked in promenade - but we can't wait to start. There's also the thorny issue of using that term 'site-specific'.
Here at Standby, we don't think it's enough to take a play set in 'a park' and stage it in the Swan Gardens. We don't want to look at a script set in 'a cinema', and place it in the local Picture House.
We want to start with a space and work up. Take a building with its own layout, its own history, and create some theatre which can't be performed anywhere else.
Wish us luck!
