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Two Thousand and Eleven
George:

And so it begins..........

After a mince pie and roast potato to many, Tin Shed return to embark on yet another year of financial instability and creative ingenuity.

Opportunities are stacking up as we prepare our educational tour of John Steinbeck's classic 'Of Mice and Men'. We are all, at present, frantically rustling through the dusty pages in search of dramatic integrity and inspiration before we begin rehearsals in the next few weeks.
The two Newport based Shedders are currently in the process of running workshops in conjunction with the Riverfront Theatre as part of an outreach programme. Whilst the Shropshire based shedder works in WH Smiths, I mean works really hard to organise......well we're still not quite sure but buisness none the less.

We are hoping that this year will bring us the opportunity to branch further into the world of professional theatre and grasp what ever comes our way (with exceptions of course). There is also the whisper of funding, which as a small, self endorsed company is music to our little tin ears, although this isn't set in stone and will probably resort to us having to attempt to sell Antonio again.
 Hey-ho onwards and upwards!

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. "
John Steinbeck

Looking back on 2010, specifically Op BB
Justin:

Operation Blackbox was our first venture into immersive
Theatre.
Working with the Empty Shops Project, Newport, and the
UWN we set out to devise an experiemantal piece of theatre that would be free for member of the public to experience.
We had two weeks and no budget, just a derelict bank in the centre of Newport city.

Antonio has always been fascinated with extra terrestrial phenomenon and its theoretical impact with mankind should we ever encounter it. He wanted to explore this concept so we let him go for it.

Research included the watching of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and he was off!

Working with some extremely talented Performing Arts students from the UWN, we had just ten days in the Old Co-Operative Bank. In that time we got to meet some fantastic people, including Peter Farago, our saviour, an amazing Hungarian sound Guru, please check him out www.myspace.com/zerbixzoid.

We performed to hundreds of audience members who kept us humble and kept us going. In seeing their faces we knew the journey was worth the ride. We gave it for free on Halloween, a theatrical maze around a derelict bank, based on Antonios theory of alien invasion.

Thoughts From A Taxi
Antonio:

For the first time as a company we split off to work individually on the writing. In bringing the monologues together we found we had crafted an insanely believable story that you could only imagine hearing in the back of a taxi driving around Newport! An exciting trio of eccentric, loveable characters telling a hilariously twisted, but touching story. It was surreal but in an ironically recognisable sort of way. This production was definitely one of my highlights working with Tin Shed.