Can I do this without my trousers?

Mole Can I do this without trousers. It’s just that I'm a bit hot. Can I do it without socks? Just in my underpants?

Tim YES OK WHATEVER! I don’t know what that is.

Mole YES OK WHATEVER!

Programme

We make a programme during a coffee break in the Arnolfini bar. We cut and paste entries from the blog. The first post from each venue we've worked at during the devising process. Leeds Met. Preset. Lakeside. Arnolfini. The writing gets closer to the end of the show but we still haven't made it there. It's not a mile off. The nature of marketing is always having to describe work that doesn't exist yet. To sit somewhere between the vague and the specific. The Pilots seems like a paradigm of this paradox because it sits somewhere between the ready and the unready. Half full and half empty. Half written and half unwritten. Half remembered. Half rendered. Half hearted. The work in progress will not feel too different to the finished piece. Two men reading scripts trying to work out where they are in the world and on the page. The programme itself is a work in progress. Text trying to find its place upon the page. Tim says 'Art comes in the door, common sense goes out the window.'

Fire Extinguisher

It was really nice to see you in the introduction. Seeing you being you. Onstage. We need to find that energy more. Nervous energy. Also in the introduction I think you should say something about why we can't use the fire extinguisher. Like tonight we wanted to use a fire extinguisher but we were told it was hazardous so we can't use it. So there is this point where we use a fire extinguisher but we don't. There is something charged about the space now. There was a clothes rail in the room when we got here and it has found its way into the show. Birdies are hanging off the clothes rail with empty coat hangers. Shoes are on the floor. Ladders and microphone stands are beginning to talk to each other. There are two tables on either side. A fan. An invisible heater. A stack of chairs. A white screen. A video projector. We are waiting for Club Tropicana to show at the end. There is a fire extinguisher which we can't use standing centre stage next to the mic and Mole's brown shoes which were 20% off at Jones. Tim says 'Why do your shoes have to be there?' Mole says 'Because they have to be there. It's predictive.'

Interview

Last week Tim and Mole talked with Tanuja Amarusuriyah at Theatre Bristol. For a transcript of the interview copy and paste the link below.

http://www.theatrebristol.net/content.asp?CategoryID=1247

I'm in a theatre

Hello hello
Are we already here
Hello
It's annoying isn't it
What?
That clicking sound
Did Helen say she would introduce it
No I'll introduce it
So maybe we're here
Just larking about
Preparing
That's it the door's closed
Hello
Welcome to this thing...
Welcome to The Pilots (second half)
Some things you won't understand
Because we're going for page 9
I could give you a brief synopsis
But I won't becuase Tim won't let you
It's a work in progress
So it would be great if we could have a chat about it
Not you
Not just you
I don't know you
Although I'm sure you're very nice
We're having a book launch
It's a book about process
So it's a good time to be doing a work in progress
There's wine
I'm not sure how much it'll cost
Come back and see the finished show
It won't be like this it'll be different
It'll be in the theatre
I'm in a theatre


We had a meeting yesterday with the Arnolfini staff about the work in progress tomorrow and Mole decided he would introduce the show. We spend time working on the intoduction finding its way into the text of the work-in-progress. Half way through. Page 9. We talk about how even when they run the full show maybe there should still be a moment on page 9 when Mole mentions it would be nice to get some feedback after the show. 'It would be great if we could have a chat afterwards.' Maybe introduce a post-show talk. Or plug the book. Then realise where they are on the page and the stage and carry on. 'I'm in a theatre'.

Work in Progress

Mole Hello hello welcome to the show
It’s great to see so many familiar faces
This is The Pilots – work in progress

Tim This is the second half

Mole This is the second half of the show
Which we’ve been working on for the last couple of weeks
We’d appreciate any feedback you have
Not during the show though – afterwards

Tim Book launch

Mole Book launch afterwards about another show
Not this show because we haven’t finished it yet
We couldn’t write one about a show we haven’t finished yet
If you want to see the finished show you’ll have to come back
We’ll be in the theatre
Not in this space
In the big space with seats and lights and stuff
I’m in a theatre
And I’m sorry

Noone's listening

But there's no gun
But there's no gun
But there's no gun
But there's there's there's nothing
There's no bomb in my suitcase
There's no knife pressed hard against my neck
There's nothing stopping me
There's nothing starting me
There's nothing
There's nothing to worry about
There's noone
There's noone shouting
There's noone screaming
There's noone screaming
There's noone screaming
That's it that's the end goodbye
If you don't listen I'm going to kill you
If you don't listen I'm going to kill you
If you don't listen I'm going to take you all with me
Noone's listening
Noone's listening to me