On Monday, as a gentle way to recover from the Impro marathon, we hosted a film night in Meme. The BBC film about Ken Campbell's Roadshow in Kirkby was shown, which has not been seen since 1971. Then we watched the first forty minutes of Hyphenator! - Ken's one man show from 2006, filmed at the Drill Hall.
Tuesday night saw us assembling in Mello for an improvised retelling of Sean Halligan's quest to find the Jung stone in Switzerland. In 1976, he drove there with a friend to acquire the stone that now forms the plinth for Jung's statue outside what was the Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun. I directed it by not telling the cast anything about the journey and Sean and I dripped information for them to improvise. As well as the usual team of improvisors (Paul Robinson, Laura Spark, Elaine Roberts, Trevor Healey, Jack Darrell, Dannielle Malone, Jud Charlton and Richard Helm), we had the dance skills of Adele Slachmuilder and Sara Popowa to add a different texture. We finished the evening with a pilgrimage to Mathew Street to visit the stone itself.
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