Dreaming ahead

Last night, I went to see a theatre piece devised and performed by 5 LISPA graduates (class of '06) in Elephant and Castle. The work was, as Thomas would say, "an interesting beginning." It's far from perfect - certain aspects of plot weren't clear and performances could have been stronger/characters more definitively drawn - but there are the seeds of something beautiful there. They found some incredible images (white Wellington boots as schools of fish, and the casting of large nets as the waves of the ocean), and the more I spoke to them after the piece about the story they want to tell, the more compelled I was by it. It's so thrilling to see people who have come from this place of chaos and play, who have been spat out into the world and are now fighting to find their way. It's exciting. It's inspiring. And it reminds me about the importance of this work.