Famous & Divine

Famous & Divine is a fairly new company comprising two fairly seasoned performers – Amanda and Mary. We both started out as performers/devisors back in the eighties and since then we’ve had babies, worked in Higher Education, engaged in research and now – as our children hit their teen years – we’ve carved out the time to start working on the creation of new experimental work once more. Our first piece Last Night I Dreamt My House Was Leaking…premiered at Bath Spa Live in 2008 and toured in 2009. We’ve been working on our new piece The Day That My Mother Forgot About Me …since 2009 and it’s due to premiere in November 2010 at Bath Spa Live.

We work intensively one weekend every month on the piece and in-between times we maintain our connection to the creative process through a blog. Sometimes we’re blogging frantically, at other times we’re sluggish and the blog ticks over. We include ideas, extracts from things we’re reading, dreams, stories from our own lives; anything that informs the work we’re making. Our blogging has provided a rich resource for the process of making work and we trust the material that turns up there more and more. We’ve been particularly interested in the ways in which our dreams seem to ‘tune in’ to the work we’re doing and a number of them have featured in both pieces.

Our ideas blog is a personal resource which we have kept private. We are now, however, excited to open up a ‘process’ blog ‘ to record the way we’re working on our new piece and, in particular, the way we shape the material over the next few months. This is an ‘upping of the stakes’ for us as we haven’t shared our creative process prior to this, nor have we reflected regularly on our work as it happens so we’re treating this as an experiment.

For us the most important function of this blog is to help us to write clearly about the work we do. So we’d love to receive your comments or questions… If you’re interested finding out more about our first piece our website has photos, a trailer, extracts from the resource blog and reviews.

Amanda
www.famousanddivine.org