Welcome - AKA The Challenge of Creativity

So here I am in a difficult isolation rut, wanting to focus on writing something. Creating a blog seemed to be a soft touch way of getting myself at my laptop in a creative way and who knows it might be useful for the artist in you too. It at least might just make for fun simple reads (cuter way to do a recommendation list) that can just sit as an artefact of a unique time. A time where I was consuming art in a very specific state of mind and wanting to outlay my thoughts about it in the way I normally would to bored friends in the pub.

It’s also nice to mark a time where I’ve never been happier about the choices that have led my career and New Slang Productions to the place they are. But also conversely having to contend with the fact after 5 year’s battle to make work, find connections with venues and long funding processes, we as a team have been set back possibly another couple of years. Plus what will audiences new habits be for theatre, will anyone want to sit in a room full of people for a long time or with they jump at the opportunity especially as I’ve started counting the days since the last time I hugged anyone.

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And I’m usually a person who is a big on personal space.

So moving on from thoughts of unknown and the limits on my ability to be creative at the moment…

(we shan’t speak about applying to funds to make art in isolation that definitely doesn’t click with my personality or practice - although I think we will see some incredible work from some artists. As limitations on practice often can be the most creative starting point.)

… I’m going to take one of my biggest skills since childhood which is to consume content fast and speak about the specific things that I think are amazing. From music, book, films, TV shows you name it, but the why and how I find them inspiring. I’ll try to relate it to my own practice and where you can see it in my work. Also, I can tell already some will just be things that hit me in the feels.

So this isolation blogathon will take the shape at first, as a couple of my favourite examples of art moving on later to whatever flies past my eyes that week. Also, as I’ve been learning from the young’uns vlogging on t’tube, it’s good to have themes so I’ll usually be writing via these strands:

Screen Moments
Book Moments
Full Play Albums
Theatre Moments

And lets see how it evolves I guess!

But first a note that thoughts given on this blog are of an isolated brain.