Window Shopping

Something to make passers by stop and watch but not necessarily shop. The desire to acquire seems to be so strong within us that many people spend many hours looking in shop windows. This performance challenges the audience to stop and watch and to interact with what they see. It is said that what we see and like when window-shopping is a 'reflection of what we wish to be'. The performance starts as a window dressing and becomes something much more as we journey with the objects into a world of what we 'wish to be':  August 2009 - Slack Space

 Dreamdance By Nicola Werenowska:  June/July 09 

Dream dance explores the relationship between two women in the decadent but dangerous world of the 1920's Weimar cabaret.

This cabaret piece uses music, drama, dance and film to tell the story of the two women.

Have You got what I'm Looking For?: Oct 08

The Ancient Lights at Chelmsford was the venue for this site specific production. An evening out for Ruby who awaits a blind date that never turns up. Ruby is persuaded by friend Scarlet to share her poem with an open mic audience and chat to other possible dates. As the evening wears on both Scarlet and Ruby realise that it is hopeless and in an effort to get themselves a date decide to grow their own man.  Finally giving in Scarlet and Ruby follow a real life man and try to entice him to give them his bunch of flowers.

‘Footprints Theatre Company spun an intricate web of casual interventions around the Cabaret. A lot of work had obviously gone into these seemingly effortless performances. The audience were treated to the abandoned bride-to-be at her hen night, sadly trying to share her jelly with anyone; the young man devilishly presenting the women in the bar with a flower as he chatted them up; the eager young lady trying to find and grow a man and her harlot companion, who had been playing around with the bride-to-be’s fiancé! The interventions were delicately performed; without detracting from the performers on stage, they were able to make their mark and be seen. There was a good mixture of public performances, when the whole bar was allowed the voyeuristic delight of watching other people’s drama unfold, with a healthy dose of private performances, when the actors mingled in the room, speaking to one or two people at a time.

Footprints Theatre Company’s production of ‘Have You got What I’m Looking For’, was a welcome addition to the Cabaret, planting little nuggets of fun throughout the evening.'

Grow your own man in a glass of water!             Scarlet's secret.

Did anyone just see a man with a balloon walk past ?!

'Cavern of Memories': 

This project took place over several months with the community of Lion Walk church in Colchester and a local community choir. After an initial reading of the site by the participants in the project it was decided to develop an idea based on the Millenium Resolution and the participants responses to the site.