A short pamphlet of performance writing from my performance ‘Rehearsals for a Birth Story’ (2015).
Extract:
Writing our Story
We write our story before it begins.
We write it as we dream it to be.
We write it as we think it should be.
We write believing we can know what will happen.
We write our story before it begins,
And then feel more ready to begin –
To step into what we have already written.
Something known.
We begin our story as we have written it.
We begin and we make changes as we go.
We add new details, take others out.
We begin our story and rewrite it as we go.
What does it feel like to step into a story, which we haven’t written?
An unknown story?
The story is writing itself and I am listening.
Sometimes I hear myself in the story.
I pause-
A phrase, a beat that I haven’t heard before.
You can read the full pamphlet here.
You can read more about the performance here.