Future Flares Festival: Performance (work in progress) - Journey’s End Working Title

Performance (work in progress): Journey’s End Working Title

By Neil Mackenzie, Mole Wetherell and Phoebe Woodbridge

Thursday 23rd January, 2025: 5.30-5.50pm

Grosvenor East Building (Studio 1.10)

This apparently solo performance describes what is happening on stage. There’s a man. A notebook. A bear. A projection screen (ceci n’est pas une pipe). Some things need describing, some don’t. Somethings need explaining, some things can’t be explained.

Blending personal history, global events and the remains of a creative process, Journey’s End Working Title tells a highly individual story - a story about language, about growing up, about making sense, about making art.

Mole Wetherell is a visual artist and performance maker, based in Ghent in Belgium, and the artistic director of Reckless Sleepers, the company he founded in 1988. Neil Mackenzie is a Manchester based theatre maker, lecturer and curator, previously artistic director of Plane Performance, and curator of the Flare International Festival of New Theatre and the Future Flares Festival. Mole and Neil last worked together as artists in 2007 on After Dubrovka, a sound installation for theatre stages and auditoria. Phoebe Woodbridge is a Birmingham based performer and theatre maker, currently working with Ardent8 Theatre Company, whose practice explores the audience’s role in performance and the creative process, encouraging inclusivity, accessibility, discussion and engagement.