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Carla Makes
Performance
I create theatre that is alive to the moment, combining improvisation, play, and meaningful audience interaction. Whether working from a script or responding in real time, I am interested in the unique possibilities that emerge when performers and audiences share authorship of an experience.
As a writer and director, I am increasingly interested in bringing these elements together with strong visual storytelling. I enjoy creating work that invites audiences to do more than watch: to influence, inhabit, and help shape the story unfolding around them.
Highlights
Snip, Whisper, Wail (WIP)
In the salon, scissors gleam and hair tells stories of mischief, fate, and small-town secrets...and a hairdresser with an obsession with mops stands alone. A solo show where clown meets folklore, in a strange and slightly unsettling world.
The Ministry of Unplanned Occurrences
I am artistic director of The Ministry of Unplanned Occurrences. We make 'moment-specific' theatre – shows which are unscripted, live and playful. Generally, our shows are naturalistic with a touch of magical reality. All of them are linked by way we play with light and shade, comedy and drama, and our love of live and in-the-moment storytelling.
//SEED
// SEED was conceived during the 2020 UK lockdown. It is a one-to-one encounter across the video chat platform Zoom where both the performer and participant share the task of planting seeds, while sharing a semi-scripted conversation.
Max Velocity Takes Up Space
Max Velocity is a one-man, one-hour, interactive, intergalactic planetary comedy experience. It included the following: mullet-based humour, non-mullet-based music, and Max’s unconventional approach to astronaut training. Max Velocity has performed at Camden People's Theatre, Cambridge Junction, and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
Cabaret and alternative comedy
I regularly perform at alternative comedy shows debuting weird and wonderful clown and bouffon characters.
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