Highbury Park Friends

If you pass the Shutlock Lane noticeboard, you may have seen this poster:

it says

Director Jane Packman and the woods project team will be working in Highbury Park during September to create a promenade performance in the park at nightfall. We invite you to a “work in progess showing” on Thursday 2nd october at 7pm to see the work so far. Please wear sturdy footwear. We will guide you by torchlight around Highbury, encountering stories and characters as we go.

Intriguing. I wonder if it has anything to do with the Halloween story tour mentioned on another flyer. Or perhaps it’s a re-enactment of Chamberlain-era events. Or not. Is it projections of myth and fantasy into particular settings? The viewing platform? The beech copse? The burnt mounds? The islands?

Packman has set up a blog that gives a few answers:

The Woods Project is a promenade performance in the woods at nightfall. Guided by torchlight, the audience encounter characters who are themselves journeying through the woods. Merging myth and the everyday, the performance explores the regenerative and destructive powers of nature through personal stories.

There’s more, but I don’t want to remove further traces of mystery by repeating it here.

Suffice to say that someone wandering around the park at dusk could have encountered aspects of this work in progress any time in the last year.

Jane Packman's Woods Project

Contact details are on the flyer.