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I have a script
I have a show
Its unlike anything i’ve done before
Firstly, its a story
so its storytelling, which is new to me
And also, its about me
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I thought i’d be doing a show of ten or so new performance poems
and i have enough i like at this stage for
a show i like a lot
to be well doable come June
But i’ve kept coming back
And coming back
And coming back
To a thing i wrote five years ago in France,
Dec/ Jan 04/05
About something that happened to me in 1990 at the Poll Tax Riot
And its a story, a ghost story in fact
So i have to learn some new skills
Storytelling
Which is a different ballgame to performance poetry
Though less technically demanding than any show i’ve done before
[unless it gets hyper-theatrical, which it might]
But which is story led
When everything i’ve ever done has been writing led
And its now Late Feb
Meaning i have 14 weeks to get it right
To get more gags in
And work out the physicality
Will premiere it in Edinburgh in late May
And 14 weeks is a long time
Long enough to get consummate at new-ish skills
To come up with a number of decent gags
And easily enough to iron out the many kinks in the tale
If i work hard enough
very hard
hundreds and hundreds of hours hard
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Plus its about me
When very little i’ve done has been about me
Some have been about a kind of caricatured me
But nothing like so personal
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Back in Sept I showed it to TJ Dawe
and Jonno Katz
and Rob Gee
And they all said, you gotta do it
So here we go
My only regret is that, if I do a show next year of performance poems
It will have been a way too long, 4 years since I did a show of new pieces
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The romping success in 2008 was one monster poem about shopping
Biggest show on the whole fringe tour
2009 was my misguided Greatest Hits show
So, with a story this year, I don’t do a show of new poems till 2011
And, more than anything else, I am a performance poet
And 4 years is a long time
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Whatever, that’s it
This is it
The new show
ONE MAN RIOT
Here we go...
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