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Tuesday Connections

We are a care free chaotic yet orderly cohort who met on a Monday but Connected on a Tuesday. The Tuesday Connections are a theatre company dedicated in creating performances for people who feel underrepresented. Through a combination of their plural practices, Tuesday Connections explore what it means to be human.

Alone Together

Click here to see the budget spreadsheets and timeline for 'Tuesday Connections' new project 'Alone Together'.

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Project Bio

Tuesday Connections

 

ALONE TOGETHER  

 

A Verbatim Piece combining Comedy and semi-physical movements about being alone but alone together. Alex and Sam have just moved to university. Alex is excited to start their new journey, although there's one drawback, they are socially awkward. Sam, on the other hand, they are just unlikeable. They live in the same building. One room away. They are alone but alone together. 

If you love shitty dancing, throwback R&B vibez, bad singing and feeling alone on the sticky dancefloor. You are not alone, but alone together.  

Inspired by Silent Uproar’s ‘A super happy story (about feeling super sad)’.  

 

Demographic – 16+  

Running Time 1 Hour 

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50 words/ 300 Characters – Tell us what your project is. 

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Tuesday Connections are a two-person company who focus on hidden struggles within certain communities. Touring Alone Together, a Verbatim Performance, combining comedy and semi-physical movement. Two students have just moved to university, they are completely alone but alone together. An experience in overcoming loneliness.  

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TUESDAY CONNECTIONS TWELVE MONTH PLAN

Over the course of 2022/23 we aim to develop three shows. Each looking into different aspects of declined mental health in various social contexts.

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  • With the first show looking at loneliness at university, we aim to expand on this and broaden our demographic.

 

With our plan to tour 2 shows and have a third one under development by September 2023, we hope to progress our professional practice and begin to use our connections and understanding to help formulate shows that can help our audiences feel both engaged and empowered to know they are not alone.

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  • We aim to have at least 3 workshops we can alternate whilst we tour in order to gain a variety of audiences, in order give them the help/ give advice.

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  • By September 2023 we aim to have built strong connections with both Derby Theatre and a theatre in Manchester to solidify our creative space.

Programme Notes

'Those who receive huge annual subsidy are often located in the best-connected city centres surrounded by nightlife and accommodation, and are large, shiny and visible enough to gain real traction with corporate and private giving.

' (Mitchell, 2013: 11).

SWOT Analysis

Strengths

What are our companies strengths? What do we do well? Better than another company?

Weaknesses

What do we lack? What do we need to improve on? What can we identify to change?

Opportunities

What opportunities does our project grant? Who can we approach? What can we do?

Threats

What is stopping us from achieving our goals? What do we need to overcome?

Strengths 

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Niche subject in an underrepresented demographic. (Loneliness for University Students)

Add our own experience to this. (We can make this personal to us with our own experience)

Explores multiple performance styles. 

Transportable 

Derby Theatre is within a University setting. (Easily access the student community there).

In Kind Support. (With our contacts already available).

Ability to work under pressure. 

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Weaknesses 

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Niche subject. (The demographic may be considered two small).

Two performers. (A big project for only two performers).

Technical Knowledge 

 

Opportunities 

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Working with charities and people affected by this. 

Workshops after the show. 

Bring People Together. 

Explore Various Topics 

Commissions and Funding 

 

Threats 

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Transport and Delays 

Coronavirus 

Other Artists - Who may be working on similar projects.

Potential Injuries 

PESTLE

Political

What political opportunities does our performance have? What threats may hinder us?

Economic

What economic opportunities are there? What threats may we face?

Social

What social opportunities does our performance have? What threats may hinder us?

Technological

What technological opportunities can we explore? What threats because of this?

Environmental

What environmental opportunities and threat does our performance have?

Legal

What opportunities does our performance have? What threats may hinder us?

Political 
 

Opportunities 

  • Create Awareness of causes of Mental Health. 
     

Threats 

  • Funding Cuts from Arts Council. 

  • Strikes and Union Cuts 

Economical 
 

Opportunities 

  • Transportable Set and Props 
     

Threats 

  • Cost of Living Rising and people can’t afford theatre tickets. 

  • Train and Petrol Prices 

Social 
 

Opportunities 

  • Raise awareness of Loneliness 

  • Relevant 

  • Demographic is already there. 

  • Derby Theatre 
     

Threats 

  • May not reach problem areas 

Technological 
 

Opportunities 

  • Basic Tech 

  • Easily Transported  

  • 4G Widely Available 
     

Threat 

  • Copyrighted music. 

  • Different Lighting Formats in the theatre.  

  • Venue not having the power to support the tech.  

Environmental 
 

Opportunities 

  • Taking public transport to decrease carbon emissions. 
     

Threats 

  • Weather 

Legal 
 

Opportunities 

  • Offering support through contact information and leaflets 

  • Working with charity 
     

Threats 

  • GDPR violations if not recorded correctly 

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Getting it Out There

'Collaboration is the way forward, and it doesn’t mean the big and powerful organisations leaving their doors slightly ajar to let ‘our work’ in. Real collaboration benefits everyone equally. And a good co-production works best when there is artistic involvement from the very beginning, rather than an offer of a receiving house and a budget.' (Live Arts UK, 2012: 8).

SMART Objectives

Specific

Using specific targets we aim to achieve opportunities which are specific in nature.

Measurable

Being measurable means we are able to record our objectives.

Achievable

Something achievable which will allow us to stay on target and within what we can do.

Relevant

Relevant targets will give us an understanding of what we need to do during our time.

Time-Based

Giving a Time-Based objective give us a deadline to work with and meet the target.

Tuesday Connections have created three targets which we aim to achieve within our first year as a collective theatre company.

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  • We aim to develop and perform 2 scratch nights to university students in the first 3 months of our R and D (Research and Development) phase. This will help us gain insight into how they feel on the subject.​

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  • ​Contact at least 3 of the following charities in the first 2 months of our project to discuss using their leaflets and resources in our performance.

    • MIND​

    • Mental Health Foundation

    • Together

    • Samaritans

    • YoungMinds

    • Man Up

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  • To contact venues across 3 cities in the UK, to begin touring our performance within their venues.​

    • Derby​

    • Manchester

    • Birmingham

    • Nottingham

    • Leeds

E-Flyer Draft

Here is a draft version of the E-Flyer 'Tuesday Connections' will send out in their Alone Together project.

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We have placed in pictures of the directors of the company so that they can see who they are working with. Also attaching a copy of the company logo. 

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We have also given the information on the show in a small synopsis of what can be expected, this allows the receiver of the flyer to understand what the performance is about and why we are showing this.

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We have also placed a template in which we can promote the theatre/venue that we will be working with and a specific charity we will be working with. We will also provide information on the charity such as the email and telephone number so that whoever receives this has the contact details for the specific charity should they wish to make contact.

Logo Design

This logo was designed by Tuesday Connections, we associated our vision of our performance as a column. Similar to the columns in ancient Greek amphitheater's holding up the coliseum. We aim to use our company as a platform in which we can uphold the ideals of giving the unrepresented a voice. 

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Using our connections and practice we hope that this logo will be able to demonstrate a platform in which people can find comfort and speak openly as they are aware this is a safe space in which they will be heard.

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