I’ve just seen the PULSE festival proof before it goes off to the printers, and am now scared. For some reason, I had blithely misread the previous emails telling me where I was performing, and assumed it was the nice and compact New Wolsey Studio. Turns out it’s not. It’s at the New Wolsey Theatre. That has a capacity of 400. Suddenly my gentle research method doesn’t quite seem enough. I need to be building props already. And costumes! However, I am thoroughly enjoying my quiet period of book-based research whilst it lasts: it’s like being back at college. I don’t think I’ve had to research anything in quite the same way since graduating 8 years ago. Another interesting fact about Remedios Varo: apparently she and Leonora Carrington once fooled dinner guests into thinking they were eating caviar, by mixing tapioca pearls with fish stock and squid ink. This isn’t strictly pertinent to my research, but could well make its way into the post-show talk I have also agreed to do.
So: scared and excited in equal measure.
