Tiny Failures ‘TV’
Creative Distractions For Dealing With Disastrous News and Terrible Odds.
15th May 2020
7.30pm - 8.15pm BST
A Brighton Festival At Home Live event - Featuring Rachel Blackman and Laura Mugridge.
This event is live and takes place via zoom.
You’ll need to register to join the live event.
Rachel Blackman and her team were in the middle of creating a new show for Brighton Festival 2020 all about failure, when coronavirus hit. The project ground to a screeching halt and like the rest of us, Rachel had to suddenly work out how to adapt to this strange new reality.
Not one to take an apocalypse laying down, she did in fact lay down an awful lot for the first month. She also worried about what she could do to save the world, stocked up on Detol wipes and saved all the seeds from her meals, incase food supply chains broke down.
Eventually, she stopped panicking and decided to do this:. . . .
The first in a series of live creative performative challenges and conversations exploring failure and creative freedom will be broadcast live as part of Brighton Festival At Home.
Facilitated by performer Rachel Blackman with special guest comedian and theatre maker Laura Mugridge..
Tonight, a special guest will be given a small creative task that they are highly likely to fail at.
They must perform it with 150% commitment and with as much enjoyment as possible.
It is very unlikely to go well - and yet they must persist.
With time they will improve.
This is not that time!
Is being creative a luxury?
Is failure only for losers?
Let’s find out how we survive all this.
Part talk show, part provocation, part experiment.
'you will feel ridiculous,
and ridiculousness is good for you.
Its good for everything.
To feel ridiculous and sensitive
is a part of freedom'
- Philippe Gaulier
About Laura Mugridge our Special Guest:
Laura is an award winning theatremaker and comedian. She specialises in making shows about tiny details, to be performed in unusual spaces. Her first solo show Running On Air was performed in her VW campervan and won a Scotsman Fringe First award for innovative new writing.
Despite being a great cook, and sometimes being paid for it, every time Laura cooks rice it looks like something you’d grout your bathroom with.
Every. Single. Time.
This is Laura
She’s so lovely
Twitter: @MugridgeMagic
Supported by Brighton Festival
We will also be joined by (and receiving superb tech support from) improvisor and mench:
Producer Kate Laird
And Digital Strategy Director Fanslike Agency
Info and registration below.
photo of Rachel by Hugh Fox
photo of Laura by Edward Moore