Every year the churches in Wokingham mark Good Friday by holding an event in the Town Centre. For the last two years, I have had the joy to be a part of implementing this, in the form of a community passion play. Through this I have learnt that community plays are hard work. Especially when they involve trying to bring together lots of different groups who aren’t used to working together. Getting commitment from people is a challenge in itself and then implementing the plan with people who all have their own idea’s is an even bigger challenge. Don’t get . . . . . .
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Last month I had the privilege of taking to the stage in the latest version of “The Virgin Monologues”. This idea for this inspired piece of community theatre was born a year ago by my talented colleague and friend Anna Adams: who directed and produced the project along with ‘Stage-Fright’s’ Artistic Director Michael Johnson. Inspired by a book of poems on the Virgin Mary by Nicola Slee, the project evolved. During this last year 3 performances have been held under the same title: all of which have been unique and different. The idea and concept: To engage women with aspects . . . . . .
In a current climate where funding for the arts is under question and work as a whole is scarce: particularly for people of my age, I can’t help feeling extremely blessed and privileged to be doing my job. As I reflect further I begin to realise that one of the keys for me to continue to find work is my ability to adapt. At the moment I feel like I spend my life running from project to meeting and from meeting to project. Talking, teaching, facilitating, leading, observing and commenting. I go from a workshop with a big group of . . . . . .
It’s a year this week that I started my job at Stage-Fright Theatre company. I packed up, left home and moved to a place I’d never heard of before with the dream of using drama to bring together communities, see young people grow in confidence and self worth and to be inspired and challenged. A year on and I’m a very different person to the Hayley that arrived in Wokingham September 2009. I’m a year older, a year ‘wiser’ and able to refer to myself as a professional theatre practitioner without cringing and not really believing it (I still can’t . . . . . .
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