Bloodwater Theatre Leave Your Shoes at the Door

In October 2011 a group of international artists met for a week’s theatre residency in Glasgow to develop a performance: Pritam Kapoor originally from Singapore, now living in London; Lucy Fitzpatrick originally from Scotland, now living in Sydney; Monika Nawrat from Poland, currently lives in Scotland; Gordon O’Neill from Northern Ireland, currently lives in Scotland and Fatima Rateb, originally from Egypt but now living in London.

Two years later, they reunite in Glasgow to complete the work. They return for different reasons, aware of the challenges of working with the diverse artistic practices and varied temperaments of the artists within the group. They each have a story to tell and must decide whether to share this story. Leave Your Shoes at the Door raises questions about how theatre is made and whether the process of making can be synonymous to the product of theatre. Can artists who collaborate own what they collectively create?

Jamie Walker, Gavin Wright, Paul Chaal, Anna Neirobisz, Suzanne Morrison, Martin Smith and Jo Ronan make up BloodWater Theatre. As part of her PhD research, Jo brought these individuals together in February 2011 to test principles of ownership in theatre-making and in July 2011 BloodWater Theatre was born. BloodWater Theatre collaboratively produced Whose Story Is It Anyway, a work in progress staged at the Tron Theatre in October 2011. The company is not funded and experiments with egalitarian ways of making theatre in the hope of discovering the aesthetics of the collective, enabling the making of moving performances that challenge minds.

Please note we will be filming this performance and you may be recognisable as a member of our audience. Please let one our ushers know if you would prefer not to be filmed.

BloodWater Theatre invite you to pay what you can for this performance with a range of ticket prices. The company is not funded and ticket revenue will go towards production costs.