Fear Itself from Friction Theatre participated in First Bite last month, it was a thoroughly entertaining and varied night.

We prepared an under-10 minute ‘taster’ of our show, Fear Itself. (We were one of only three shows to actually stick to the under-10-minute rule, but we’re not going to mention that. Ahem.)

The plan was to give the audience the flavour of our idea. In this modern world of tabloid and lazy journalism facts are rarely checked and the word is deliberately sensationalised. Statistics are misleading and the net result is that the general populace lives in fear of ridiculousness.

Your children are more likely to be poisoned in their own home than abducted in a playground. You’re more likely to be struct by lightning than suffer the result of a terrorist attack.

Fear Itself plans to present the work of fear behind a backdrop of honest-normality.

Anyway…

Unfortunately we didn’t get a commission but that’s not going to stop us from making it happen! The two that did get commission were genuinely our favourites of the evening, so we’re not too disappointed. The lucky comissionees were: Al Bowlly’s Croon Manifesto by Untied Artists and You’re not like the other girls Chrissy by Caroline Horton.

We had a range of feedback comments, some very positive and some rather negative. But, as Bill Cosby says, “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”