bobby baker box story 2001

Taken from DAILY LIFE SERIES: 5

2001

Remembering Pandora, Bobby delves into a selection of boxes unleashing the ills of the world and attempting to conquer them with hope and unsettling humour. Eight exceptional singers, performing music especially composed by Jocelyn Pook, accompany her on her quest, providing a touch of irony to her valiant but vain efforts.

“Box Story felt good from the start and is one of my favourite shows. While I was writing the first application I was a resident in a crisis house. The show is about misfortune and I felt overwhelmed with the bleakness of it all. One of the staff, Bill Briscombe, told me the bit of the myth that I had forgotten – that Pandora finds Hope left in the box. Hope became my sharp knife to get out with.”


bobby baker box story video

again in looking at development of performance persona- use of personal stories in performance- and how referential to spectators lives stories can be. in my girl scout story at the nunnery in feedback many people said how connected they felt to it- for example then remembering their own defining moment of loss of innocence in their own childhood.