About Me
Hello 😎
My name is Rose. I am a 21-year-old soon to be Acting for Contemporary Theatre BA HONs Graduate student from Chichester University. I am a passionate young performer, theatre-maker, artivist and clown based in North Wales, UK. My work raises awareness through a comedic approach that connects with audiences. I use physical theatre and an improvisation driven devising process to create my performance content, working with different materials, and enjoy collaborating creatively with fellow artists and peers.
My mission is to move into the industry as an independent practitioner. A theatre maker and performer who uses the creativity of imagination to teach and inform through my work, while making people giggle along the way. To explore the possibilities of theatre to create playful, provocative art that engages audiences and invites questioning and reflection about contemporary issues and struggles. My work hopes to connect with audiences and uses physical comedy and an experimental approach to performance practise. I want to grow my skills and expand on my experience in the industry. I believe in the power theatre holds to create change, in hopeful actions and the importance to continue making work and support the arts community.
‘If the work is playful it becomes pleasurable, and when you’re enjoying yourself you get bolder and take more risks.’ (Wright, 2007: 27).
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How I work
My work begins with a theme and purpose and generates through game play, embracing failure and clowning around. I use improvisations to explore initial ideas and draw from personal experiences and contemporary issues exploring a range of political, feminist aims with a postdramatic aesthetic that challenges audience engagement. What motivates and underpins my practice is a passion for using experimental methods and play in the devising of my work, using humour to hopefully teach audiences and address issues humans face and how clowning can help overcome them. Some of my work stems from an autobiographical starting point, others are social or political commentary. Comedy, immersion, participation and experimentation are important to my artistic process.
I’m a big fan of the power of laughing together. From project to project, my work takes a variety of different aesthetic forms and presentation. I devise solo performances, collaborative ensemble pieces with fellow artists and installation art. This makes my work widely accessible and aimed towards different groups of society through the vast array of topics addressed and ways to view and engage with it. I wish to expand my craft and clowning skills through workshops and residencies with industry professionals where I can learn and develop. This will help underpin my artistic voice and how I work.
Failure as an aesthetic and way to push ideas is important in the investment of my process. Failed ideas invite new possibilities. I hope to continue failing as I learn and grow.
‘One of the greatest strengths of theatre’s liveness, therefore, is in its weakness – in theatre’s potentiality to fail.’ (Suk, 2021: 100).