Getting closer to realization...

This was published on Counterpoint's website.  It means we're getting that much closer to the realization of a piece of work, and that realization means that an audience will see it.  Not just an audience from the relatively safe confines of Central, but an audience from the community we're looking to make connections into, and also an audience who are experts on the material our piece is based upon.  Rather exciting, but also slightly scary.

Performance piece inspired by Charles Leadbeater’s Cloud Culture critique

Author: Counterpoint

Students on the MA in Advanced Theatre Practise at the Central School of Speech and Drama are developing Whose Cloud is it Anyway? a durational performance project that takes Charles Leadbeater’s critique of Cloud Culture for Counterpoint as its starting point.

A synopsis
from the Director, Robert Drummer:

Whose Cloud is it Anyway? is a vital attempt to comprehend the digital landscape that exists above our heads. Vast amounts of our data, our social interactions and information increasingly exist in digital clouds. Even our books, films and art are being transferred and uploaded by Google and Apple, who now seek our trust in them as custodians to the future of our culture. This durational performance work is made up of that same information, relayed and remixed alongside multiple narratives exploring the necessity for human traces in this digital age. An absent father is manifest in the postcards he leaves as bookmarks and a woman silenced online protests atop a roof against an unjust regime.

As part of the research and development of the project there will be a showing on Tuesday 9th March, the work so far is an attempt to perform the complexities of the material we have been using in the rehearsal room. The performance is durational and begins at 3pm, lasting 6 hours until 9pm but we are of course inviting our audience to spend as much time as they wish, when they wish during this period

This work is part of a larger project which will continue over the coming months and hopefully have a fully supported public production in London during August/September of this year.