Producer

Hello,

My name is Hayley and I am the producer for Sherbet Lemon Theatre. I have never had the pleasure of working as a producer before so this is a very exciting opportunity for me to see theatre from a new perspective. I love working with people to organise new and exciting opportunities, so I hope I will be able to make this happen for Sherbet Lemon Theatre. As well as this I will be keeping a close eye on our budget as nothing happens without money, (I may need to revisit some maths skills for this).

I am overjoyed to be working with the rest of this wonderful ensemble; it is a pleasure to be working with such creative, hard working, talented people! Also, our topic of sleep is one very close to home as I have suffered with night terrors throughout my life, so it is very important to me that we educate people on what they are and how they affect people. I know that our use of verbatim will be very useful for this.

I hope to see you all in May for the show! Cheerio for now.

H.M.

Emilys Bedtime Routine

Morning!

I have two separate bedtime routines. One for when I’m with Jake and for when I’m without. Because I struggle to sleep without Jake I tend to start my routine earlier, normally with a ‘sit down’ shower. I like to sit in the shower and use lavender baby shampoo because 1) I have sensitive skin and 2) The scent helps me relax. I then head upstairs with a hot chocolate (made in my favourite Tinkerbell Mug) and find a film to watch. I usually end up watching Shrek, not particularly sure why. I then do my bedtime skin care routine. Cleanse, Tone, Serum, Moisturise. If it’s a particularly chilly night I take Mitchel, who’s my microwavable Unicorn, and warm him up to snuggle. I then get cosy in my duvet and try to get some sleep.

With Jake, we tend to watch Netflix for a while then head down stairs to brush our teeth. I make us some squash and wash my face with my night cleanser. We head back upstairs and catch up on our day before deciding the latest time we can set our alarm in the morning. I turn off the lamp and we say… goodnight.

E.L.

EA2 Form

“Sleep is a naturally reoccurring state of mind and body characterised by an altered state of consciousness” (Sherbet Lemon Theatre, 2018), and is a major part of everyday life. For our debut performance, we are extremely interested in individual experiences with sleep and how they differ from person to person. We are specifically interested in hearing from people who suffer from: sleep paralysis, narcolepsy, insomnia and night terrors. We are also interested in hearing from people who have been blind since birth, to speak with them about their dreams. Like Arts Council England “we want as many people as possible to be stimulated by arts and culture wherever they are” (Arts Council England, 2013, 6), and we feel that using real people’s words will achieve this.

 

 

In order to carry out interviews in the most ethical way possible, it is my job to fill out an EA2 (Ethical Approval) Form. The main reason for filling out an EA2 Form is to highlight any ethical issues with the project at hand, and how they are to be addressed by us at Sherbet Lemon Theatre.FINAL FINAL EA2 FORM                                                             Figure 1: Section from Sherbet Lemon Theatre’s EA2 Form.

 

Figure 1 is an example of how the EA2 form was used to address ethical issues within our research. If you would like to see a full copy of the completed EA2 Form, please see the ‘Technical Documents’ tab.
H.M.

 

 

Arts Council England (2013) Great Art and Culture for Everyone: 10 Year Strategic Framework 2010-2020. England: Arts Council England.

Sherbet Lemon Theatre (2018) The Truth About Bedtime… [live performance]. Performed by Sherbet Lemon Theatre. Lincoln: Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, 21 May.

Making our Manifesto

When deciding on how we want to be viewed as a company and considering how we want our externally facing materials to reflect us, it is important we bare in mind the style of theatre and audience we are trying to appeal to. I have recently sat down with our company director and stage manager to get a better sense of what their aspirations for the company are and from there I have begun drafting our Manifesto and Mission Statement. My intentions are to create a manifesto that articulates the importance of audience and reality within our company. I hope to demonstrate the level of engagement we are hoping to encapsulate within performance and present the fundamental basis of our companies future work. Our mission Statement is slightly more colloquial as I intend on using this to portray the relaxed environment we intend on creating throughout our companies productions. We want to create theatre that is easily accessible to those who wouldn’t normally visit a traditional theatre space. It is important to us that we can create an environment where participation and audience reaction is encouraged and embraced. We intend on creating a theatre environment that allows our audience to relax and go back to the basics. Our mission statement encourages our audience to consider what is truly important to us as humans, the things we cannot live without, and take some time to stop clouding their day to day lives with the worries and stress of ‘living’.

 

Sherbet Lemon Theatre Manifesto

We are Sherbet Lemon Theatre. We are a group of artists who devise performance incorporating verbatim techniques to portray the reality of our day to day lives. We take the sweet and sour of being human and address the aspects we cannot live without! We invite our audience to take a step back from the complications of life and instead acknowledge the essentials. We create a comfortable and relaxed environment where our audience can feel immersed in our performance. This is vital to us as a company as we want to involve real people through their words and experiences.

 

Sherbet Lemon Theatre Mission Statement

Life can be overwhelming sometimes. The complications that fog our day to day lives can get in the way of what we truly need as humans. We invite you to take a step back from the complications of your everyday life and focus in on the essentials.  

We are an all female collective inspired to create original performance. We want to tell the stories of real people using their own words to add a sense of authenticity to our performance. We take the sweet and sour of being human and address the aspects we cannot live without! We want to create a relaxed atmosphere where everyone can feel comfortable and involved in the action around them.  

Our style of theatre is inclusive, relatable, sweet and a little bit sour. We are Sherbet Lemon Theatre!

 

E.L.

 

 

Fundraiser

Hi, I’m Emma and I’m in charge of fundraising here at Sherbet Lemon Theatre. In my role I will be responsible for creating and holding events in order to raise money to pay for the cost of putting on our show. This will be our debut production for Sherbet Lemon Theatre, focusing on sleep as a fundamental part of being human and the ways it can impact our day to day lives. Through our fundraising campaign, I’ll be making sure that we generate enough funds in order to pay for all of our set, props and costumes along with any other expenses we encounter. Working with some of the other members of our team, I’ll be organising and running events up until our performance in May, so look out for ways to get involved in our fundraising campaign over on our social media. I’m looking forward to coming up with fun and creative fundraising ideas and working with rest of our wonderful company to produce our show.

E.R.