Details of a Hurricane
Born from clusters of storms, hurricanes are unpredictable. But like most natural disasters, they serve a higher purpose – to keep the earth’s temperature stable.
In Details of a Hurricane real people examine their relationship to the Earth and The Universe, and explore their own personal hurricanes: what it’s like standing in the eye of them as everything happens around you, how they shape us, and what happens next. This short verbatim think-piece is an exploration of destruction, hindsight and hope. Details of a Hurricane can be enjoyed as a film, or simply as an audio piece.
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Premiered 7th March 2021
Digital Theatre Piece
15 mins
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Director and Editor: Jessy Roberts
Devised by the company
With thanks to Evan Lordan and Richard Maxwell
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Tanvi Virmani
Alexander Uzoka
Bill Caple
Evie Hargreaves
Christopher Dalton
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5VT9eitFnU&ab_channel=BOVTS
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I’m working towards developing this concept into a piece of live theatre. I’m thinking the story will follow members of a Cloud Appreciation Society at a Meteorology conference, where their behaviour and psychology will be being tested in high stress simulations linked to extreme weather. I want to encourage audiences to discover and question the science behind stress. I want to develop a new hybrid theatre form for this piece, bringing in elements of gig, storytelling, guided meditation, art therapy - who knows! It feels crucial to the core of the original piece that the participants were wholly responsible for the content, they were simply asked questions and they were always in conversation with each other. There wasn’t really a plan until we got going, with each session responding to the previous one. Is there a way of giving the audience a similar experience? What is there to consider for audience enjoyment and safeguarding for more emotionally charged questions?
