I’ve made a slideshow from the photos from the shows of Footsteps of a Nobody. Hope you enjoy it.
Donna Williams, Dip Ed, BA Hons.
Author, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter.
Autism consultant and public speaker.
http://www.myspace.com/nobodynowherethefilm
http://www.donnawilliams.net
http://www.aspinauts.com
Just got back from doing the Footsteps of a Nobody show in Wodonga at the Wodonga Civic Centre. It was hosted by Cooinda who did an incredible job flying 5 musos from Melbourne to Wodonga, sorting out all the equipment, theatre, ticketting, accomodation, transport, food, hospitality. And the show was really well received with a good turnout. 
I performed the show on the stage but came down the central stairs and into the audience several times throughout the show, delivering the Shakesperian spoken word and songs directly amidst the audience. I spoke to participants after the show. There were men who had been crying. There were people gobsmacked having seen nothing like this in their lives. Mostly people were so enthused. I seem to hear again and again that whilst they’re deeply rocked by the show (pardon the pun) participants seem to feel they were watching their own lives being played out up on the stage. As a writer, actor, singer, performer, that is really nirvana, to take them to that space.
The Footsteps of a Nobody show is what is called inter-arts, or multi-arts, so it’s a really hard beast to label. It’s a mixture of signing that at times might resemble deaf theatre. It has characterisations of satire, comedy and Marcel Marceau, Shakespearian meter but the monologue shift into raps and break out into songs musically supported by The Aspinauts. It has story and acting akin to a play yet it leaps in time and place like a trip with Alice down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. The story takes people from surrealism to pathos, to comedy and a powerful shared humanity that seems to link up all present.
Donna Williams, Dip Ed, BA Hons.
Author, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter.
http://www.myspace.com/nobodynowherethefilm
http://www.donnawilliams.net
http://www.aspinauts.com
