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Nightshifting
A twelve hour long theatre show devised and performed by third year performing arts students of De Montfort University, based at Melton Mowbray College, under the direction of Craig Stephens and James Yarker from Stan's Cafe.
Stan's Cafe got a call from Plane Performance late in 1997... would we be interested in taking over the supervision of a project they could not complete due to illness.
The two major elements already in place which we retained were the title, "Nightshifting", and the duration... 12 hours. From there on it was up for grabs.
From this starting point we worked with the team constructing a series of strands, strategies and structures for getting both them and the audience through the night. What resulted was a free wheeling, half chaotic, strangely intense night.
Sometimes the material was dreadful and occasionally, especially when consumed by fatigue, a little inspired. By the time 8am came round we felt wedded to the cast through some shared experience. It was almost enough to send us scurrying off to read Richard Schechner again.
The aesthetic and ambition is best summed up in the words of a disparate, argumentative and ultimately charming performance team and their programme notes.
The following year we were invited back to start a project from scratch with the next year's Third Year's performing arts students at Melton College, this piece became The Hearing of Susan Tuesday
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