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Good and True: Credits
devised and performed by
Sarah Dawson
Amanda Hadingue
Craig Stephens
Nick Walker
direction James Yarker
lighting Paul Arvidson
sound Brian Duffy
design Stan's Cafe
administration Paulette Brien
photography Ed Dimsdale
graphics Simon Ford
The show was made possible with support from Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Arts.
Good and True is about asking questions. It is about the motivations, tactics, revelations and assumptions embedded in questioning. It is about the troubled relationship between questions and answers. Except in the loosest possible sense it is not a story, though it can be found to contain fragments of many stories.
It is always exciting and frightening working on Stan's Cafe shows. They are made in the rehearsal room by trying theoretical ideas out in practice, using instinct and chance as well as tough thinking, so it's difficult to predict what form the final performance will take. It turns out that Good and True, in contrast to most recent projects, is based almost entirely on dialogue.
Despite the abundance of text there is no writer's credit. Much of this text is the result of improvisations by the cast which have been transcribed then edited, rewritten, rehearsed, edited and rewritten again. Other passages have been written from scratch by me according to speech patterns and themes brought into currency through improvisation. There remain a few passages which are improvised afresh with each performance. In such circumstances authorship is clearly shared.
Ultimately, the show is not yet finished - it remains open for you to do your own writing job on it. We know why everything in the show is there but we haven't nailed down what everything means. The creative links you make within the show and the meaning you draw from it will complete our collaboration.
James Yarker
February 2000
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