It’s been quite a year for On The Run. Last year, I didn’t even have the confidence to refer to us as ‘On The Run’ because On The Run was really just Hannah and I in a dingy rehearsal room, scratching our heads and crossing our fingers that this show we were making would turn out OK.
The Edinburgh Fringe changed all that. We performed our show So It Goes
to a lot of people and they reacted in exactly the way we had hoped: by crying,
laughing and sharing their own stories of loss.
We can’t wait to take the show on tour next year.
We’ve just announced our first London date, at Clapham Omnibus on January 29th, with more performances to follow in the Spring.
We’ve just announced our first London date, at Clapham Omnibus on January 29th, with more performances to follow in the Spring.
Recently, we’ve shared some of
our approaches to Autobiographical Theatre in a workshop for IdeasTap members
and we’ll be doing the same again, in a workshop on February 14th at
Vaults Festival. It’s free and participants
get discounted tickets for performances at Vaults that day.
2014 was also the year we
launched No Such Thing, our night of short-form theatre, in partnership with
our good friends Rhum and Clay Theatre Company and the New Diorama. No Such Thing #1 ran in February with six
amazing acts and #2 was just last week, when we performed our own brand new
piece ‘Greek Tragedy’: a lovingly, deranged spoof of theatre’s most murderous
genre. We’ll be bringing No Such Thing
back next year and it will keep giving a platform to bold, short-form work and
new, exciting collaborations.
Hannah and I started making So It
Goes way back in 2012. But 2014 was the
year we came into the world. Let’s raise
a glass to everyone who helped us get there including, of course, to all our
audiences.
Finally, here’s to 2015 when
we’ll be performing So It Goes in London, around the UK and maybe even back in
Edinburgh, if you’re lucky! We’ll be
running more workshops. No Such Thing
will be back for more. And we’ll start
work on a new show... more news on that soon!
Much love, David (and Hannah) xx
PS We’d like to wish you a happy
Christmas with this five minute slice of joy.
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