Pennyblack are brewing something new...

Pennyblack are currently separated by a large portion of water- this is not a deterent to creating a new piece, but rather stimulus for one....they have water meetings where they both go to local water at the same time. Hopefully this piece will develop over the coming months and years! We will let you know how it goes. Do keep in touch.

* The seed was planted for the Postbox pieces in December 2007 when Maritea and Hannah met in a studio to discuss the possibilities of working together. The sun was shining
* so they left the studio and went for a long walk in the fields of Devon. A few months later
* as a result of their conversation
* they wrote letters to each other every day for a month in which they were both away. In these letters they shared stories about encounters with strangers
* adventures
* musings about the world
* and gave little tasks to each other. This paper dialogue played with the delay between sending and receiving; thinking and reading. When they returned to Devon
* they sifted through their mass of letters as they waited for the postman one day. They gave him a letter that day
* and decided to met him there every day thereafter. The small parking place infront of the postbox became their 'office' over the next few months. They would sit there come rain or shine and edit the material they'd created in the post. In that time they got to know the postman
* a few locals
* particularly an elderly man across the road
* and passersby. All of these things influenced their performance. They created a delicate
* moving
* fragmented twenty-minutes of stories- autobiographical
* historical
* and fictional. Since the first performance
* they have been commissioned to develop it for You and Your Work 5
* and have taken it to Plymouth's In The Flesh Festival. They hope to take it to new places in the future.

IN THE FLESH 08

IN THE FLESH 08 live performance festival at the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth is hosting our Postbox performance.

"A fiesta of experiments in Theatre, Dance and Live Arts. A chance for performers and audiences to try something different. From weird to wonderful, simple to hell-bent fury, bitter and twisted to heart stoppingly beautiful!" (http://www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/whatson.htm)

We will soon know the exact time and location, either 14th or 15th of November.

PENNYBLACK PERFORMANCE IN BRISTOL FRIDAY 3RD OCTOBER 5PM

WE ARE DEVELOPING OUR EARLIER PIECE "POSTBOX TQ9 5BP" INTO "POSTBOX BS5 181". A PERFORMANCE THAT WILL BE SHOWN AT ST MARKS ROAD, EASTON, BRISTOL AS PART OF THE FESTIVAL YOU AND YOUR WORK FRIDAY 3RD OF OCTOBER AT 5PM (the rest of the festival is at the Easton Community Centre)

TEXT FROM YOU AND YOUR WORK BLOG:
"Pennyblack, a young performance duo, bring their site-specific show 'Postbox BS5 181' to neighbouring St. Mark's Rd. The work, centering on the adventures made possible by letters an the postal system, attempts to capture the attention of both dedicated audience and passer-by"


Go to www.youandyourwork.blogspot.com for more information

PICTURES FROM WORK-IN-PROGRESS OF "POSTBOX BS5 181"