What follows is a selection of clips and snippets taken from the research and development, and subsequent rehearsals for my project at Jerwood Open Forest. The first clips are from the group workshops and rehearsals I ran for my group 23 performers. Over two days we worked through a process of character creation, initially devised in Sherwood Forest. Beginning with a series of blindfolded trust exercises in a studio, and blind animal character creation workshops, we ventured out and spent the day in Epping Forest. Over a rainy day, we used a workshop of mine called 'Sanctuaries' to divine new meaning, and stories from the surrounding forest to be relayed in the gallery shortly after.
As I mentioned, this was preceded by R&D time in Sherwood Pine Forest, and Blakeley Lane Eco campsite where 9 of us lived for 8 days.
This first clips is from a game I created called 'ONE FOR ALL, AND ALL FOR ONE!', which facilitates improvisational story telling, loosening of bodies and tongues and makes use of a fader technique, in which the story tellers position and facing within the area determines the rules for the improvisors to try and follow.
Here's the rules, feel free to use and add to it.
This next clips is from the 'Blind Animals' game. I discovered this game in a Lithuanian Pine Forest which was home to the worlds only Larpwriter Summer School. A total legend, aka, Kristoffer Thuroe ran it and I was instantly hooked. It's sometimes used by a group of Nordic Larpers as one of many pre-larp workshops. Its is one of the many methods to build trust between players, create shared fictions and flesh out various character traits through blindfold/eyes closed improvisation.
The accompanying sound, is taken from another game of mine called 'Sanctuaries'. All of this material was generated as part of my Jerwood Open Forest research and development period. The results of which were used in a series of performances in the Jerwood Gallery, London - 2014.
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