Citizen Kane, Five Stories High
Flatpack tends to involve a jumble of artforms, so this year’s collaboration with storytelling wizards YARN makes total sense. With your help we’re aiming to recreate the entire plot of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, through the medium of song, performance, film, illustration and literature (and probably a few others). Each participant will be allocated a slice of the Charles Foster Kane saga (around 6.5% of it), and will then have to work out an interesting way of telling it. This is how it works…
- The doors are now open to your expressions of interest – just fill in the short form on Yarn’s site and let us know why you’d like to be involved;
- On 6 March submissions will close, and we’ll select fifteen teams (three for each artform) to tell the story;
- Shortly before the festival each team will receive their story-chunk, with a week or so to prepare for…
- The grand finale. On 18 March - the last day of the festival - the entire film will be recreated at the Custard Factory from start to finish in a dazzling, multi-media, cast-of-thousands performance known as Five Stories High.
That’s about the size of it. If you’re interested in taking part, keep these dates in mind and think about what sort of team you’d want to put together - solo submissions are also very welcome. There will be very little in the way of budget for participants, but technical and emotional support in abundance and some free Flatpack tickets.
**Update** We've just extended the deadline to 6 March. Some great entries have been coming in, but we could do with a few more - particularly performers and musicians. If you'd like to know more drop us a line.