Perform at Port Eliot Festival and Take Your Chances with Lady Luck…
May 4th, 2012 | Published in Frontpage
Enter the parlour of Lady Luck and gamble your emotions on the spin of her roulette wheel.
We’ve just heard the exciting news that Telltales has been invited back to perform at Port Eliot Festival for the fourth year running. It’s a great opportunity to showcase the incredible creative writing talent that Cornwall has to offer and amazing for our performers to be on the bill alongside some of the country’s brightest literary stars.
Last year’s programme and Round Room performance left audiences enthralled, so for 2012 we’ve decided to take things one step further and get the audience directly involved with the programming itself. With the help of a trusy 1960s Spanish roulette wheel.
With the roulette wheel set up (and hopefully rigged up so everyone in the audience can see it) individual audience members will be selected and invited to spin the wheel in order to decide what each performer will read out.
Will the ball bounce down on red – for a happy tale – or black – for a tale or woe, worry or mistfortune?
As the wheel is spun the programme will take shape, colouring the atmosphere and pulling on our emotions. But in what direction only Lady Luck can decide.
If you are interested in taking part and being one of the (lucky) seven writers we programme, submissions are easy.
Use the form on the right to submit one piece that could be defined as happy and one piece that could be defined as sad, by the 22 June 2012.
These are loose definitions so don’t worry if you don’t write for laughs – it’s more about the overall feeling your writing creates.
Please label your submissions Happy, followed by your name, and Sad, followed by your name, so we can keep track.
Once you have submitted, we’ll confirm we’ve received your submission, have a read and then get in touch by the 22 June to let you know if you have been successfully programmed.
Each performer will get a free weekend pass to Port Eliot Festival (only one though – performer tickets are like gold dust) and of course the chance to perform at one of the UK’s leading literary events.
Sound interesting? Then let Lady Luck inspire you and get thinking, writing and submitting.