The OUT140 Quartet – Jeneseka, Shelly, Stevie and Steve – had a wonderful time performing a 14 minute version of OUT140: The Play on the Pride Bus at Norwich Pride yesterday. The bus was packed with people laughing, cheering, sighing, crying and singing along to the dozens of stories we performed – and Shelly played ukulele to an audience for the first time!
To celebrate Lesbian Visibility Week 2020 we created a little movie of OUT140 stories featuring micro-love stories between women and we realised this on the Lesbian Visibility Week Norfolk Facebook page. Filmed separately in our homes during lockdown, the film was a wonderful way to be together and be visible at a time of international crisis.
Our wonderful friends at Print to the People have created a beautiful poster for the play!
We had a fabulous first rehearsal today working on our micro-monologues and a sequence of stories starting from 1945. Jen warmed us up with some lovely activities based around rainbow flags. Sue led the singing and today’s song was:
My daughter told her granny and her response was ‘oh! I used to have crushes on girls at school’
We had the most wonderful auditions workshop. There were 16 of us there and people each brought two OUT140 stories that meant something to them. Jen did some fabulous warm-up exercises to get people moving and getting to know one another and then each person presented their stories whilst the rest of us applauded wildly. In the break we devoured Stevie’s gorgeous OUT140 Cake and then Eve led us in some small group improvisations to see how we could develop the stories in teams. We ended with a singing session with Charlie who taught us the micro-song “Grandma Asked Mum”.
We got a lovely piece in the Norwich Evening News about the auditions. You can read it on their website here: http://www.edp24.co.uk/going-out/cast-needed-out140-play-stage-two-norwich-pride-1-5542006
We have set a date for our auditions – Tuesday 5th June, 7-9pm at Theatre Royal’s Stage Two. We want a really diverse cast so please apply – whatever your age, ability, sexuality, gender identity. OUT140 is from the community for the community and we want that to be reflected on stage.
We had the best time performing a scratch performance of the play inside, on stage with fabulous sound and lighting at the Theatre Royal’s Stage Two. It was so good to be close to the audience and know they could her everything! We got this sweet tweet from Fizz:
Ruski was there to take more fabulous photos. You can see the full set by clicking here.
We are going to do another scratch performance of the OUT140 Play at the Theatre Royal’s Stage Two On Friday 8th September 2017 as part of their Creative Matters Gender and Sexual Identity Season, celebrating 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality.
We had a fabulous if slightly surreal time doing at scratch performance of the OUT140 Play as the parade gathered around us! 🙂 Here are some sweet pics of us in action.
