Sunday, February 12, 2017

Ian McMillan and Robert Sheppard: Simultaneous Performance: Leeds Enemies (photo, video, set list and thoughts)


February Thursday 9th - Leeds : Wharf Chambers Co-operative Club; North by North West Enemies Tour



Ian McMillan and I performed our still untitled piece of simultaneous writing. We wrote it at the same time (Monday 23rd January 2017 19.00-19.45) and then we performed it simultaneously. People seemed to like it. It was great to work with Ian and we thinking of ways of developing this work. Here’s the video of our bit:



And here you can read the texts in their intertwinedness, on 3am Magazine

Here's the full roster:

Ian McMillan and Robert Sheppard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouxaFZKyDeg
Chris McCabe and Nathan Walker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RkH6b8KRBY
SJ Fowler and Patricia Farrell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGUkbih0p9Y
Tom Jenks and Sarah Clare Conlon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4qeWdEMIkk
Lauren de sa Naylor and Andrew Clwyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-IXy4napLE
Leanne Bridgewater and Lucy Harvest Clarke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLdFc1qXblY
Nasser Hussain and Lucy Burnett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRjMXB77-uc
Joseph Clarke and Andrew Wells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnqNKVNm114
Christopher Stephenson and Matthew Welton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M86fAayiU_Y
Tom Weir and Matthew Hedley Stoppard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFGszjwtbqs
Stephen Emmerson and James Davies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYqG52HBUPM
Linda Black and Andrew Wilson Lambeth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IwC998h7Wc

It was a wonderful evening with an impressive range of how to undertake performance of/in collaboration. It was also good to perform on the same bill as Patricia but in different contexts. The evening also produced Colin, a University friend, not seen for 40 years, who is a friend of Leanne Bridgewater, one of the readers. Good to hang out with Chris McCabe and to see Lauren de sa Naylor again and to meet Nasser Hussain, Lucy Harvest Clarke and Stephen Emmerson for the first time. Others too....


Leeds Enemies (without Ian!)