Thirsty Questionnaire....

Hello- 

Thank you for taking the time to answer our 20 questions! If there is any question that you are uncomfortable with then please feel free to pass it by as we may use the anonymous answers given within this questionnaire when creating our new production .

Please cut and paste questions and email completed questionnaires as a word document  to  " jemma@thepaperbirds.com or pop it in the post to -

Jemma Mc Donnell

The Paper Birds- Studio 18

The West Park Centre

Spen Lane 

Leeds

LS16 5BE 

Thank you in advance for your time, your honesty and your answers. x

1) How old are you?

2) What sex are you?  M/F

 3) What is you annual income? 

4) What is your nationality? 

5) Where do you drink? (feel free to name more than one location/ environment)

6) Who do you drink with? (different social groups such as friends, family, work colleagues so on) and how does the experience vary with each group/ person? 

7) Has your relationship with alcohol changed over the years with age? In what way?

8) How often do you currently drink and how often do you get drunk?

9) Please write a list of what you might currently drink on an average ‘night out’ or on a big/ special occasion? 

10) If you do- why do you think you have the desire to get drunk? (please feel free to give more than one reason)

 11) How does drinking/ being drunk make you feel? (this might be how you feel about yourself / others around you or generally about life/ the night)

 12) Have you ever experienced memory loss from drinking? - please tell us the fragments of the night that you DO remember.

 13) Have you ever gained any injuries from drinking- what injury and what happened?

14)  ‘Drunk Women’- discuss.....

 15) Please tell us a funny story of when you or others you know have been drunk.

 16) Please tell us an embarrassing story of when you or others you know have been drunk.

17) Please tell us a dark/scary/ disturbing story of a time when you or others you know have been drunk.

 18) Do you have any hangover cures? What are they?

 19) Please describe on the main how do you feel the morning after drinking?

20) Do you/ have you ever lied about the amount you have drunk or the things that have happened when you have been drinking? If so what have you lied about and why?

Thank you for your time. x

Thirsty?

My name is Jemma Mc Donnell and I am the artistic director of The Paper Birds theatre company. I need your help......

I am starting this blog, not because I have something that I need to share- but more, because I need you to share your stories and thoughts with me....

The Paper Birds are about to begin devising a new show under the working title of 'Thirsty'. The devising process will begin at The National Theatre’s studio in April and will continue development at venues across the UK until the productions world premiere at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2011. 

‘Thirsty’ will be a theatrical exploration into the upsurge of the binge drinking culture currently gripping the UK. A dynamic theatrical exploration beyond governmental research, ‘Thirsty’ will look past the facts and figures of binge drinking to the faces and the voices of  the men admitted A&E in the dead of the night and of the lone women sitting on pavements unable to stand. 

Thirsty will explore the stories and social repercussions of lost memories and gained traumas; the tales of bruised knees, uncontrollable laughter, unwanted pregnancies and urine stained beds...... a story that repeats itself across the UK Friday night. 

In the coming weeks/ months (aside from this blog) The Paper Birds will be sending out questionnaires, will be taking to the streets with our dictaphones and will even have a mobile number for people to ring and leave messages/ voicemail's when they are drunk.  ( Ill post the number on here as soon as we have it). 

The aim is to collate as many drunken stories and experiences from a varied groups of people as possible ( we dont want this theme to simply be associated with young people and/or club/pub culture) from which the company will piece together one night, one story- made up of all of yours! 

Thus- I need your stories, your photographs, your voicemail's and most of all your honesty! If you would rather not post your story as a comment at the bottom of this blog then please feel free to email me directly or pop your story in the post anonymously ( my contact details are below.)

Finally-  I also beg you to pass this blog address on to as many people as possible to enable us to get varied contributions.

Thank you so much in advance! I will keep you updated on how the show develops. x

Jemma Mc Donnell

The Paper Birds

Studio 18

The West Park Centre

Spen Lane

Leeds

LS16 5BE

jemma@thepaperbirds.com