Visitors to the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse new writing festival, Everyword, are invited to follow the development of a unique piece of new theatre online throughout the week before seeing the piece performed as Everyword’s closing event on Saturday.
Present:Tense was a sell-out success of last year’s festival and this year Nabokov are back with theatre’s toughest creative challenge.
A group of Liverpool’s best playwrights, directors, poets, musicians and practitioners have just a week to respond to an important news story by developing a piece of theatre and in a unique twist you can follow every part of their creative process online on the Present:Tense blog at www.nabokov-online.com/ptblog.
On Saturday 27 June playwrights Laurence Wilson and Jeff Young, directors, and Nabokov Artistic Directors, James Grieve and George Perrin, film maker Eddy Marshall, choreographer Maria Malone, poet and musician Curtis Watt and up and coming Liverpool band The Seal Cub Clubbing Club assembled in the Everyman Bistro to decide the most important news story on the agenda.
From a shortlist chosen from the latest newspapers they chose to cover the news that crime is rising in areas with high support for the British National Party. The artists were then given just 7 days to create a response to the story before their work is performed at the Liverpool Everyman as the closing event of Everyword on Saturday 4 July at 7:30pm.
During the week the artists will develop ideas, make links with other stories and ideas and develop responses through words, sounds and pictures to reflect the story and the journey they have all been on to present to a live audience on Saturday. That live audience and anyone interested in how such a unique experiment evolves can follow the progress of the artists as they work towards Saturday’s performance.
Tickets for Present:Tense are just £4 and you can follow the progress at www.nabokov-online.com/ptblog.
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