{"id":329,"date":"2021-07-27T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T10:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/work-in-progress-theatre-performance\/?p=329"},"modified":"2022-12-01T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:00:23","slug":"yvonne-newton-the-principles-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/work-in-progress-theatre-performance\/yvonne-newton-the-principles-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections: Yvonne Newton: The Principles of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

in March 2020, Yvonne Newton was invited to attend the Decolonising Artistic Practice workshop and discussion hosted by Fast Familiar as part of the Work in Progress Project. Here, Yvonne documented her experience of the workshop.<\/p>\n

“My role was to participate in the discussion as a theatre maker and produce some form of documentation in response to the workshop. This could take any form I wanted, drawing on inspiration and discussions from the workshop on decolonization and performance practices. Overall, my participation (along with all the other creatives\/academics\/curators\/performers present) would inform Fast Familiar\u2019s future development of a piece.<\/p>\n

Little did we know that this was only two weeks before the UK was to enter its first national lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Revisiting my documentation response a year on, I think what we have here is a unique opportunity to reflect, think and produce work during a time of unprecedented change. I believe this lends itself to the work of decolonisation, with many structures being exposed in society over the past year.<\/p>\n

Fast Familiar’s workshop was self reflexive in its methods and discussions, as I\u2019ll explain alongside my first response The Principles of 2025<\/em>\u00a0 which collects ideas from the group on decolonisation and theatre. My second response is a collage of scripts where I explore decolonisation of the self, stemming from the workshop\u2019s central prompt written at the top of the collection. The video and performance elements<\/a> of the script provide a third dimension to the response and explore my understanding of decolonisation in practice, developing the script to performance. This is supported by my instagram page<\/a> where I look at how to document documentation. Part of decolonisation for me personally and for this piece of work, is being transparent about the process, to help the \u201cunpacking\u201d and \u201cunpicking\u201d process. It\u2019s important for me to discover and uncover the product (script, video, performance), rather than trying to imagine it using ideas of what a \u201cgood response\u201d is.”<\/p>\n

THE PRINCIPLES OF 2025<\/h4>\n

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POSTER CONTEXT:<\/p>\n

The Principles of 2025<\/em>, poster is a visual and interactive summary of takeaways from the session that I jotted down at the time. It combines two elements from Fast Familiar\u2019s workshop:<\/p>\n