Evolve Exchange
Neil C Smith_
NIE_
Studio 8 Group - New Greenham Arts
Rehearsed Reading
June 15th, 2010
Sunday 27 June 2010
Bandages
written and directed by Kirsty Housley.
Time: 4pm
Place: The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton
Cost: £4
We watched her through the crack in the cupboard door. There was nothing elegant about her death. None of the skill that had been using in Daddy’s end was employed here. She took the knife and plunged it deep into her stomach. Blood sprayed up the dirty white bathroom walls and across the mirror. She opened her mouth to scream but there was no noise, just more blood. Fountains of it. It seemed to glow in that funny bathroom light. It seemed to have a life of its own as it escaped from her. I’m sure she appreciated the beauty of it all.
April 14th, 2010
Hello,
My name is Kirsty and I am a currently making a new show with some help from the great people at Newbury Corn Exchange and the Arts Council. I am working mainly alone but with some help from a mentor and some fantastic actors.
Over the last few months I’ve written a play. I didn’t mean to. It’s rather taken me by surprise. Although I make my own work and have often written as a part of that process, I don’t classify myself as a writer at all. It’s not what I do. Except I have. It’s rather exciting.
I wanted to try a new way of working. Having worked as an assistant and director on several adaptations, and even tried my hand at adaptation myself, I felt I’d reached a natural jumping off point. So I jumped.
I’m not sure what it is yet. It started off being about a young woman in Halifax who stabbed her sister when she was just 14. It’s ended up being about co dependency, insecurity and growing up. And the Morrisons meat counter. Not what I expected at all.
I’m hoping it will be shown at some point over the summer. I’ll keep you posted.
Thanks for looking.
