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Trails, Trailers, Scratches and McBox.

3/30/2013

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A little preview of our upcoming trailer...
It's been a wild and windy adventure over the last week, but one that has certainly compressed the spring ready for (Spring, hopefully! But also) the energetic 'boing' that will be Bits & Box.

So, perhaps most importantly, we’ve found boxes big enough! Granted, we may still have a search ahead of us to find the box, but in the mean time we are now the proud owners of two cardboard beasts that will serve us well throughout rehearsals. And what an end to – what was becoming – a rather fruitless goose-chase (excuse the mixed metaphors)! We’d emailed and searched and hunted and pleaded, but have eventually managed to get our hands on the not-so-little devils. And now the real work can begin.

With our first booked performances creeping up on us, we need to get started – but the last thing we want is to rush what is going to be our debut as ‘AndOn Theatre. We want to test the water, as it were. And what better way to do that than with a scratch?

For those looking a little puzzled, scratches are a devised theatre practitioner’s dream; a chance for a Show and Fail before an audience that subsequently rip you apart. Sound scary? Well, of course, no one likes to be criticised, but scratches offer outside feedback and advice from precisely the sort of strangers that will be paying to watch you a few months down the line. The opportunity to present a Work in Progress is one that should be neither sniffed at nor shied away from, and the plan is to get one or two of these under our belts, to make sure our (ahem) adoring public shall be getting the very best of us.

We’ve also been busying ourselves with maximising on another gem: social media. With the website up and running, and Facebook and Twitter giving us a friendly helping hand, the Internet is unquestionably the most effective way to get yourself and your work ‘out there’. So we’ve made a trailer. A little snapshot of what’s to come and what’s worth staying tuned for. Bear with us while we get it all ready to go and then give us a hand (if you wouldn’t mind) in making it go… everywhere. The Internet may be the tool of all tools, but that’s only because of the people that use it. Give us a ‘like’, a ‘share’, a ‘re-tweet’ or a ‘comment’, and help us get a leg up, so that we can start harnessing our art, and using it. Theatre is the most influential medium of change, but not if nobody sees it, or even know its happening.

Right, well, shameless plea over, and onto an amusing co-incidence in the world of ideas, and why ‘AndOn Theatre and McDonalds’ Head Office have a common interest. Have a little look at this:

http://m.thedrum.com/news/2013/03/18/ad-day-mcdonalds-boxes

On the one hand, I’m thinking, ‘well, we must be onto something here, McDs are doing it, too’, which is probably the optimistic opinion to stick with. On the other, however, ‘the cheeky bleeders nicked our idea’… clearly the irrationally stupid approach!

Either way, we found it quite a funny turn up for the books, and embrace the fact that kids do love a box, and so do we!

Until next time, Happy Easter from Josh and Ray.


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'AndOn with the blog...

3/24/2013

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So, here we go with the first, of hopefully many, blogs from 'AndOn Theatre. And all seems to be well. 

It's been so interesting for me to see our progression, even in the last few months. Of course, before that, there was no 'AndOn Theatre to speak of: just a bag of ideas and as many meetings as could be arranged with two busy schedules spread across Greater London. What we needed, to solidify what we had and push ourselves forward, was some kind of goal to aim for. We both wanted the pressure of having to produce theatre to a deadline; only then would we be sure to get ourselves moving. It's strange that even the most dedicated, motivated people still need that ticking clock to really kick them into action. And we found ours with Bits & Box and The International Youth Arts Festival. 

IYAF is a fantastic starting opportunity for a young company. They're still relatively young themselves and yet are testament to dedication and commitment to the Arts and their own growth (both physically and verbally). In a time when Arts funding is being pruned like an unsightly shrub, it's festivals like this one which still give us 'little buds' a bit of hope for survival.

The other interesting thing to look back on is how much we've listened. Seemingly idle, we actually spent a lot of time in the run up to our company launch hearing what others had to say. We saw as much theatre together as we could and just observed and listened. Even when it seemed to be no good, there was still a lot to be said for anything we saw or anyone we talked to, and I think that's one of the most important things I've learned about starting and running a company -- all the knowledge is out there if you're willing to find it, listen to it and act upon (or against) it. 

I could go on ('AndOn...) but I'll finish here. We're very excited about our work over the next few months, with some potentially fantastic opportunities (and an explosive first performance!) ahead of us. And we're dead excited. And we should be. And anyone put off by the risk of being pruned, or by the uphill struggle, shouldn't be: you know as well as I do that's it's worth it.
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