Theatre Interests

I am highly interested in endurance theatre and when researching this, I came across the work of Donna Kaz. She has a theatre company called 'Endurance Theatre'.
Endurance theatre shows the performance work of women over 40 and aims to give an insight to the strength and power these women still have at 40.

I found this information here:
http://www.womenarts.org/network/profile_115.html

She has also made a lot of work with musical theatre and this is another thing I am interested in and want to include in my performance.

When looking further into their work I saw that their most recent production has focused on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I watched a video of their performance:
http://www.performingtribute.com/performingtribute.com/Clip.html
and began thinking about events that have happened in recent history for example, a closer to home event of The London Bombings. When I saw that their performance was presenting audience members with a way of dealing with such a horrible event I became instantly interested. In 'Performing Tribute' they do not try and hide the struggle that they went through but simply try and show it is possible to deal with these things. I want to look further into these horrific modern day events and create a piece of Endurance theatre on it.

I think it would be far for interesting for me to look at terrorist attacks that have happened close to home and so I have looked into the London Bombings on 7th July 2005.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/london_blasts/what_happened/html/default.stm
This is the bbc news page on what actually happened with some video footage. What is even more interesting to me is that the suicide bombers started their journey in Leeds which is also my hometown. What I find interesting about these events is how the men are walking to their death yet, in all the footage they do not look scared, nor do they converse with one another.

The event killed 52 people and injured over 770 people.

What is interesting to me now is that terrorist attacks have now become a social norm. They are something that we might expect at any time and this should not be the case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuhBdHc8Nqs
A key line in this clip to me is 'what many people seemed to notice was the loud noise that blasted much louder than that of rush hour'. This could be useful to use in my performance. What I think is promising is how the police and forensics have worked out who and why these attacks took place.