The Community Foundation of Northern Ireland Conference - Belfast- December 2003
This was the second conference organised by the Community Foundation of Northern Ireland & Harvard University that Wolf + Water have been theatre company in residence for, the first being the notorious Lusty Beg conference of 2001. Imagine the scene – an English theatre company standing in front of a range of politicians, ex – paramilitaries, victims groups & other community agencies about to deliver a performance regarding the current state of the Peace Process in light of the Local Government elections that had taken place 10 days before… As with Lusty Beg, we returned to parody with a performance concerning two conflicting families of television magicians, the Bucheli’s & the Magesto’s, with the overshadowing presence of the Magic Circle – a story complete with Wand Decommisioning, the Good Conjuring Agreement, & the shock when the radical old Grand Dad Magesto wins the Magician of the Year Competition…
“the creativity of it!…that really really was great show!”“spot on – excellent – even better than you were in Lusty Beg”
Audience Comments
The second part of our input was to devise a piece of feedback theatre to sum up the issues raised on the first day of the conference at the beginning of the second day. We are very grateful to the hotel staff who provided a tanker of coffe as we began rehearsing at 4 a.m. in the morning…
“you did good there, very good indeed. thanks very much”
Audience Comment
The final part of our involvement was running a brief workshop to explore with participants how arts & creative processes can contribute to dialogue & the peace process.