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Work ⟩1960s ⟩A Lavatory Palace Hotel Firescreen 1969

About the Work

During 1968 I helped form a street performance group called 'Further Granulated Advice'. The group's name was picked at random from words in a newspaper. Thom Osborn, literary director at the Royal Court Theatre, was our mentor. We put on improvised works inspired by the 'Commedia Dell' Arte'. Osborn took my work seriously; he was a psychiatrist as well as a theatre director. We used improvisational techniques in presenting events. I usually did drawings of the events I wished to present, then sometimes showed them to the actors for their interpretation. The drawings were then burnt.
Two of my events were never presented. These were 'The Lavatory Palace Hotel' and 'Mind How You Go'. Later I transformed the drawings into firescreens.