This weekend sees Clinic taking on a slightly different roll to how you've seen us before. We're involved with a collection of plays in New Cross and Clapham, on the 12th and 13th respectively. 'Cut The Gas' is a night of short plays based on stories from The Granta Book Of American Short Fiction, organised and curated by the wonderful Ruth Newton, with help from Ellie Harrimann.
Ruth, enjoying the '50s.
The brief was to adapt one of the stories into a stage production, keeping as close or as distant as we liked; we had the option to produce a straight adaptation or merely take one word and change everything else, so the creative potential was huge. I decided to write one based on Raymond Carver's story Errand and was lucky enough to have it accepted as one of the final six.
We've been rehearsing the plays over the last month and a half and slowly they've all come together. They're all incredibly different, yet all stemming from the same book of stories, providing six very different, creative interpretation of a movement in American writing.
The night is taking on a '50s theme, which can be seen throughout all the plays, with original music composed by Guy Barley and Josh Jarvis, and wonderful '50s Americana and dress throughout. This promises to be a really good night, with some fantastic plays produced by some up and coming South London writers and an opportunity to see Clinic involved in a slightly different project than usual, so make sure you come down!
Here's the facebook event; I hear that tickets for the Clapham night are sold out so you'll have to come and see us in the Goldsmith's Student Union on the 12th. Tickets are £3.50 for students so cut your gas and come on down, it promises to be a night to remember.
See you all there!
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