Damn Cheek invites you to share a slice of your Saturday with 2 seasoned servers of silliness, Darren Cheek and Katie Taylor. Having first worked together during lockdown, Darren and Katie love seeing how ridiculous you can get in only 2 dimensions. Now they want to share that ridiculousness with you…
About the workshop
Darren Cheek and Katie Taylor are serious about play. They also know that sometimes it’s tough to play – and that for the last few pandemic years, it’s often been tougher. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to do…
Darren and Katie’s shared love of play has led them to create Serious Play, a relaxed Zoom workshop where they gently invite you to celebrate the silly, to lift off with levity, to revel in the ridiculous! You can feel free to bring whatever’s alive in you, then discover how the alchemy of group play allows you to enquire, explore and express.
Serious Play celebrates how online space:
- opens up new connections and new possibilities
- gives time and space to explore play
- allows us to enjoy and embrace whatever comes next.
The workshop is a chance to remember that, no matter how far apart we are, we can be together.
You are warmly invited to join in as much as you wish with individual and group games to spark joy, laughter, silliness, tenderness, spontaneity, creativity and whatever else comes. Go at your own pace and choose your own adventure to get serious about play!
Where and when
Serious Play will feature as part of Mole Valley’s Arts Alive festival.
Date: Saturday 29 October 2022
Time: 11:30am to 1pm
Venue: Online via Zoom. (You will not need to download any software to take part. Nearer the time, you’ll get full details of how to join.)
Tickets: £15
Damn Cheek passionately believes that money should never be a barrier to access. We’re therefore offering a limited number of ‘pay what you feel you can’ tickets. Email us at info@damcheek.co.uk for more information.
The makers
Darren Cheek
With an often Tigger-like energy, Darren is a passionate advocate of ‘play’ not only as a fun thing to do but also as a way to enhance individual fulfilment and social connection. Darren is an experienced improvisor and improvisation facilitator, as well as an actor, writer and Artistic Director of Damn Cheek Productions. He also has a busy private practice as an integrative humanistic psychotherapist working with adults, children, young people and families.
Katie Taylor
Katie Taylor is a theatre maker, cultural producer and creative facilitator who explores themes of personal meaning and interpersonal connection through play, touch and delight. Her academic background is in the history and philosophy of science, and her experience includes delivering sensory sessions on touch to artists and creatives, as well as facilitating infant massage classes. Katie’s previous collaboration with Damn Cheek was Lost and Found – an immersive, interactive, theatrical Zoom experience delivered one-to-one.
