Get Your Hands On I Wish I Was Lonely / The Oh Fuck Moment Imagined By Hannah Jane Walker Presented In Brochure

are two 'performance pieces' that are very hard to judge on the basis of script alone I usually love things that stretch the boundaries of what theatre can do and these ARE extremely different from what most people would consider 'plays' but there are also.
. . problems.

First off, both pieces require a great deal of audience participation, and I think ultimately the success of each would somewhat depend on each particular audience's desire and ability to step up to the plate.
Secondly, Walker is primarily known as a poet whereas Thorpe has crafted more traditional plays and there are moments when the poetry gets a bit much and I'm not quite sure what's trying to be communicated.
I fared a bit better with the OFM, since it was more immediately accessible as I am NOT someone who lives on their cell phone I barely use mine week to week it's really just to schedule appts.
I found much of Lonely didn't really resonate,

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This is what theatre could do! What theatre could be! How I wish I was in the audiences for these performances.
How I wish to make theatre like this,

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Two performance texts by Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe


The Oh Fuck Moment


Fucking up is the truest, funniest, most terrifying moment you can experience.
Poet Hannah Jane Walker and theatremaker Chris Thorpe examine the poetic guts of mistakes in a bundle of words and strip lighting, The Oh Fuck Moment is an awardwinning conversation around a desk for brave souls to hold their hands up and admit they fucked up, or for people to

laugh at us because we did.



A brilliant celebration of our mistakes and evolutionary reflexes Guardian


I Wish I Was Lonely


I Wish I Was Lonely is an interactive show about contactability asking whether the invisible waves were tethered to might be drowning who we are.
Its a show in which the audience commit to leaving their phones on, A show investigating what it means to participate in communication or not, There are poems, there are stories and there is conversation,


I Wish I Was Lonely sees Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe ask how much of ourselves weve given up to the new gods in our pockets.
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