Hi! If you’ve found us here you must be a Brick by Brick history enthusiast! I salute your commitment to the cause. We are now posting our blog on our website which can be found here:
https://brickbybricktheatre.weebly.com/blog
But please feel free to read the posts below on this older blog to really take a trip down memory lane. And see you on the new site!
Jack and Jack
I just wanted to collate some thoughts and musings after an excellent week of research and development for our show Procrastinate. A big thanks to Middle Child and the team at Darley’s for letting us use their rehearsal space to make this a reality – absolute heroes. Anyway, back to Procrastinate. It’s a show that we hold dearly in our hearts and one that has appeared in a few forms already; initially as a playful 20-minute sketch and then developed further for an audience at a scratch performance with those Hesitant Strangers. But now Procrastinate heads to the Edinburgh Fringe and it becomes a fully fledged show. It is at once exciting, scary and challenging, just the way it should be.
Before we began R&D, Procrastinate was a set of unrefined set of gags and ideas that hoped to blend live performance with live technology, with little aim beyond making people laugh and wonder ‘just how we did that’. So naturally it was imperative to us to use this week to work out exactly how Procrastinate grows up and becomes a real boy. We aimed to work out how we tell a love story in a show that features only one man and his laptop, and in doing so discovered (amongst countless other things) the limitless story-telling power that a winky smiley has ;). Never underestimate the power ;). We began the week with two things: 1) a concept to make jokes with and 2) a love story. After this week we now have one single entity and this is really exciting.
If nothing else, this week has reminded us what we love so much about theatre: playfulness and imagination. Turning an office desk into a procrastinator’s playground is infinitely fun and we really can’t wait to share that fun with our audiences. The shared joy in a hidden prop somewhere on stage or that moment of realisation when a stapler becomes a bloodthirsty dinosaur is second to none. Throw the entirety of the internet into the mix and you’ve got yourself something special. Live performance is the king of self-reference and tongue in cheek, and we are going to embrace it with the most open arms you have ever seen. For those who don’t know, I do conveniently have rather long arms.
So what is Procrastinate about? It’s about having fun, it’s about how we communicate in the modern day, it’s about prioritising the things you truly care about and it’s about how many procrasti-biscuits one man can eat in 45 minutes. Should be easy, right?
Thanks for reading,
Jack Chamberlain
P.S. I shamelessly procrastinated whilst writing this by watching Anne Robinson deal out some earth shattering home truths on the Weakest Link. What is she like ey?
Hello all!
It has been a whole year since we jetted off to the Berne Theatre Festival in Switzerland to perform our abridged version of The Knight of the Burning Pestle so we thought that we would share with you our experience and a link to watch online at your own viewing pleasure!
We had a fantastic time in Berne with the wonderful and unforgettable folk who reside there, welcoming us into their really rather brilliant theatrical bubble. The show really came into its own once we rehearsed in Berne and was enjoyed by all. We are looking to develop the show further as Francis Beaumont’s play is too much fun for us to put down! We hope you enjoy watching!
Jack Chamberlain
Brick By Brick have been given the keys to their new venue.
After a brief Easter break, we are back in the rehearsal room for our first show ‘Play’! We have made a few really exciting changes in the past few days and cannot wait to get to perform the show!
In this video we test another of the ideas we have had with the Makey Makey and we are really excited to show you how this will be incorporated into the show… you will just have to wait and see!
If you haven’t already, make sure you book your tickets at: http://www.assemblefest.co.uk/tickets.html
You can get tickets for all seven Assemble Fest shows for just £13 if you book in advance! But remember, our capacity is limited so make sure you don’t miss out!
Thanks for reading,
Brick by Brick
In this video we show you our racing game creation, using foil to accelerate and brake. This is certainly an idea we want to incorporate into the show on the 3rd of May, so come on down and see how it works in performance! Thanks for watching!
In this video we test out some household objects with the Makey Makey. This fantastic piece of kit gets our creative side going and we are well underway in starting to form a show based around this. Thanks for watching!
This is Rory Powrie, the third member of the cast for our first show ‘Play’. Rory is currently studying Drama and English at the University of Hull in his second year.
Rory is joining us as part of the creative team and will be performing in the show too. We are all happily experimenting away with the MaKey MaKey and will be adding more videos as we find new ways to play!
Thanks for reading!
Brick by Brick
In this video we unbox and test our brand new Makey Makey! This is the kit we will be using to bring our idea to life.
We test our first idea, the hand drawn controller!
Welcome to our very first blog post for our first performance ‘Play’. We are a new theatre company based in Hull performing our show as part of Assemble Fest. The festival takes place in venues on and around Newland Avenue on May the 3rd.
As a company we want to explore new ways of creating an interactive experience for our audience members. ‘Play’ will be our first venture into creating theatre like this and we want to document our experiences as we go through the process.
So thanks for watching and keep up-to-date with this blog for everything Brick by Brick!
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