Support your library space and bring along any stories you have from your own stories and anecdotes of Bristol Zoo. A hour’s session led by a local producer of plays/entertainments written from oral histories. The rest of the evening is dedicated to meeting your neighbours, old and new. There will be a bar.
Clifton-born Kate McNab, two actors and one musician met during the run of Up The Feeder, Down The Mouth at Bristol Old Vic. This play, written by ACH Smith, used the oral histories of dockers to inspire the hugely successful piece of theatre, later repeated inside M Shed. The production over, the inspired friends started their own company which toured in the South West over twenty years. The Ministry of Entertainment based their 11 productions on oral histories given to them in a variety of workshop sessions (eg Age Concern, Evacuee Society, friends, relatives, etc.) and by Radio Bristol listeners.
Kate will read stories of the zoo stories collected so far in the development of her next one-woman piece, Beryl’s Day Out. The final piece will be put on in a local performance space later this year. Can you ‘donate’ an anecdote, memory or story?
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