ABSTRACT
Erika Block is co-artistic director of the Walk & Squawk Performance Project, a Michigan-based touring company which produces interdisciplinary work. Most recently, she directed and co-wrote They Do It With Mirrors, a one-woman performance about identity, illusion and rabbit stew which is currently touring in the US and UK. Other work includes scripting Wickedness, a dance-theatre adaptation of Ron Hansen’s story which was performed in the Nebraska State Capitol Building and at DanceSpace Project in New York; an interdisciplinary adaptation of Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark and And To Eat No Fish, a reconstruction of five Shakespeare texts. Her next project, inspired by Marc Chagall’s designs for the Moscow Yiddish Theatre, will be staged under a circus tent with clowns, acrobats and Klezmer. Foursight Theatre: Over the last nine years Foursight Theatre have created a reputation for producing high quality experimental theatre. Based on the theme of women’s biography, their work merges text, music and movement in a way which engages the senses, the intellect and the emotions in equal measure. Through the eyes of women such as Elizabeth I, Pope Joan, Mae West and Boadicea, Foursight have taken another look at history, redressed the balance a little and discovered some intriguing facts, good, bad and ugly, about the lives of these fascinating women. Bloody Mary and the Virgin Queen was developed by Kate Hale and Jill Dowse, both founder members of the company, from a stimulus poem by Cath Kilcoyne who also acted as script consultant and the play was directed by Deborah Barnard. Julie Wilkinson was born and brought up in Manchester, where she now lives with her partner and their two daughters. Her work has been performed in community venues, schools and theatres all over the country. Plays include On the Plastic; The Complete Servant; Pinchdice & Co (published by Sheffield Academic Press, 1991 in a volume edited by Gabriele Griffin and Elaine Aston); Don’t Call Me Now, and for young people The Sack of Lies; Thicker
Than Water; and The Incredible Expanding Baby. Julie also teaches creative writing in Bolton and Manchester.
