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Official website for Mark C. Hewitt & Blank Productions

Other and early works for performance
1998 - 2009

IMPORTANT PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS TAPE
May 2009

IMPORTANT PLEASE LISTEN 1
May 2009. Farnham Playwrights Collective. A day of short or durational site specific works occupying unusual and neglected spaces at Farnham Maltings as part of the venue's annual one day Spring festival. My contribution was an audio piece, entitled: IMPORTANT PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS TAPE. On a dictaphone in a room, visitors hear the voices of two women explaining to a certain Mrs Pallant why her husband James won't be coming home tonight. The audio cassette was recorded on a dictaphone at Benjamin Franklin House in London on 8 May 2009 with performances by Jo Bowis and Kathryn McGarr and was first presented in the Wenham Room at Farnham Maltings the following day. The basic scenario was revisited and radically reimagined in 2011/12 for my play The Revenge Fantasy Club, involving the same performers.
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Farmed Out
1157performancegroup / Farnham Maltings
April 2006

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Farmed Out was commissioned by Farnham Maltings for the Upstix/Pride of Place Festival 2006 in Woodbridge, Suffolk. The performance was developed in collaboration with Matthew Scott and Jo Dagless of 1157performancegroup. Written for one actor and three ghosts (shown as video projections), the piece explored the decline of UK farming and the poetry of ramshackle buildings and industrial rural landscapes.


Temptation of St Antony
September 2005

Rehearsed reading of a subsequently abandoned work in progress.
Hosted by Pier Playwrights, now known as New Writing South.

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Purgations
February 1998

Text: Mark C. Hewitt
Images: Tom Walker
Music: Peter Copley

Interdisciplinary collaboration leading to two performances with words by Mark C. Hewitt, projected images by visual artist Tom Walker and live music for string sextet by composer Peter Copley.

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Musicians
Violins: Shereen Godber, Brian Lee
Violas: Elly Blackshaw, Grazyna Zarewska
Cellos: Anna Copley, Rachel Firmager
Musical director: Peter Copley

Photo © Meg Sullivan, 1998