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Wednesday 15 February 2012

Tin Girls Residency

Had a very exciting week long residency at Dartington with Jessica Beck, Helena Enright, Chloe Whipple and Rose Race.
During the residency myself and Viva Voce worked on Tin Girls, a mixed-media project featuring photography and testimonies from the brave Nepali women whom I met. Together we were working to create a moving multi-disciplinary piece of theatre to raise awareness about the social injustices that these women have experienced and also to celebrate their bravery.
The residency gave us the essential time and space to work on the project. We poured through transcripts hours and hours of sound recordings and thousands of images and put our heads together in preparation for the show at the bike shed Exeter.
Here is the link: http://www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/tin-girls/

Thank you to Dartington for supporting this project!

And a bit about the brilliant Viva Voce:
Viva Voce is a new company created by Jessica Beck and Helena Enright, which aims to create artistic experiences through the words and memories of real people. Their first collaboration, Less Than a Year by Helena Enright, a documentary piece about a couple who lost their teenage daughter to cancer, raised money for the UK Bone Cancer Research Trust. Reviews for Less Than a Year:

“Helena Enright's enthralling Theatre of Testimony piece…is not a sob-fest, it is not even a depressing piece, somehow, out of this terrible situation the sheer normality and simplicity of these people's emotions makes it a fascinating and compelling story to watch.”
*****UK Theatre Web