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Co-edited book 'Good Luck Everybody: Lone Twin - Journeys, Performances, Conversations' (Aberystwyth: Performance Research Books, 2011; ISBN 978-1-906499-02-0) and evidence of practice-based research in Lone Twin projects

Informed by David Williams’s long-term collaboration and practice-based research as dramaturg with Lone Twin, this first book-length study of Lone Twin’s work documents and reflects on processes of devising new work for diverse contexts. Produced in close collaboration with the designer Kevin Mount, the volume offers a range of perspectives from practitioners and scholars, and employs different modalities of writing (interviews, critical essays, performance texts, scores etc.) and substantial photographic documentation to detail the development of Lone Twin’s work, from their beginnings in 1997 to the present. It focuses on three core areas: duo performances related to place, embodiment, duration, effort and stories; collaborative public projects (e.g. with a town crier, speech writers, choreographers); and the cycle of narrative musical-theatre performances The Catastrophe Trilogy made with an expanded company, Lone Twin Theatre.

Structure of co-editing: David Williams initiated the original proposal and contract with PR Books; subsequently he invited Carl Lavery as co-editor. Williams was responsible for elaborating overall structure and sequence – 5 themed sections intersected by the ‘spine’ of the central interview - and for ongoing dialogue with designer Kevin Mount throughout the book’s development. He was sole author of 6 texts (pp. 114, 162, 279-84, 303-6, 321-5, 362-3); sole interviewer and editor (27-39); co-author, with Carl Lavery, of the introduction (13-26); core editor selecting and working with all Lone Twin archival materials throughout, and with eight of the contributors (Read, Corrieri, Laing, Frank, Hall, Shatwell, Lynch, Primavesi); and co-interviewer (with Lavery), transcriber and core editor of the long interview (five ‘Conversations’) running through the book (43-64, 119-36, 187-208, 259-74, 341-54). Lavery worked directly with four of the contributors (Brodzinski, Pilkington, Ladnar, Tecklenburg) and, in addition to the jointly authored introduction and ‘Conversations’, contributed two major essays (171-84, 333-40) and final co-editing of the book as a whole.