Day One of a new academic year!
Email from Lucy McCormick arrives in time for the new students' Practitioner Study Briefing - with information for her forthcoming residency.
Very pleased such an exciting practitioner will be joining MA/MFA Advanced Theatre Practice for R & D next week: Lucy McCormick makes nightclub installations, cabaret interventions and extravaganza theatre shows. Her work marries interests in absurdity, ineptitude, feminism and the grotesque.
Lucy has performed her work at venues including Soho Theatre London, Underbelly Edinburgh, Dublin Festival, Buzzcut Festival, Latitude Festival, Arnolfini Bristol, Arches Glasgow, Culturegest Lisbon and BoraBora Denmark.
Lucy's show Triple Threat was nominated for a Total Theatre award at the Edinburgh Festival 2016 and the Off West End Awards London 2017. Lucy won the Best Performer award at Dublin Fringe Festival, and the show was listed in the Guardian's Top Ten Comedy shows of 2017.
Guardian articles on Triple Threat -https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/sep/01/lucy-mccormick-triple-threat-comedy-autumn-arts-preview
As a free-lance performer I have worked for Tim Etchells (In Between Time Festival and Festival of The Moving Image Geneva), with Lauren Bari Holstein (Barbican/SPILL Festival/IBT Festival) and on various projects with David Hoyle, Dickie Beau, Scottie, Richard Dedomenici, Christeene and Le Gateaux Chocolat.
Further
to my work as a performer, I have worked as a director and workshop leader at
the National Theatre, English National Opera, Gate Theatre, Soho Theatre, Queen
Mary University, Roehampton University, Guilford School of Acting, East 15
Acting School and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
In
terms of the structure of the project, for the first part of the week
I will lead a workshop which explores various interests that are part of
my practice; absurdity, DIY aesthetics, failure, pop culture, replica and
gender & feminist discourses.
Later in the project I will explore new material with the group, based around shows and commissions I'm working on at the moment. This R&D work will be largely based around tropes of interaction, audience participation and exploring audience/performer expectations.
There will be clear opportunity for the group to work and reflect on their own practice, and to get involved in tasks and showings.
