How to Kill Your Lover
How to kill your Lover was devised over a three week period in Edinburgh in October / November 2005. The work premiered at the Traverse Theatre in late November enjoying critical acclaim and a sold out run for its duration.
The work went back into further development and rehearsals early in 2006 in preparation for a Scottish Theatre tour that ended in a run on the main stage at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow.
Working on ‘How to Kill Your Lover’ as an Actor and Associate Deviser with Perrier award winning Comedian Eddie McCabe and Director Ed Robson, was one of my most challenging and rewarding projects to date.
I learned a great deal about my craft, myself as an artist and the theatre making process. Most vitally I learned to think about a piece of work as a whole picture rather than just my role as an Actor within it.
Entering the rehearsal process we had no script only the title for the work, two characters – a woman and a man and we also knew the Director very specifically wanted to investigate the twin themes of passion and destruction.
Inspired by the work of poet Pablo Neruda (I do not love you except because I love you) and visual artist Bruce Nauman, How to Kill your Lover was devised and investigated the intensity inside that most unique of worlds where only the two of you exist whilst falling in love…