The Yew-logy of Bailey D Poching
(warning, this blog is littered with in jokes, if you don’t
understand what I’m talking about, don’t panic, you won’t be alone)
Picture the scene. It’s a cold February night, 2015, and
we’ve just finished our performance of hacktivists. As a result of
post-performance conversations, plans were hatched to bring John Broadhead, Sam
mandhi-Ghomi and yes, you guessed it, Bailey Poching to Gold Company the
following Saturday. It was questionable as to whether we’d actually see them,
but sure enough, come 10 o’clock they were piling in the doors of Wakefield
college, and from there their Yew Tree lives began.
The summer term was spent devising the Christmas shows, and
we saw early that Bailey had a natural ability to bring humour to pretty much
any room he walked into. No one was immune to his wit and it was always
exciting to watch his work. We moved into the autumn term involving
incidents with a very special white t-shirt and swapping jeans at a rate of
knots), and as well as performing in Gold Company’s ‘Snow Queen’ Bailey also
auditioned for the NT Connections play for 2016, "Eclipse," in which he was double
cast with myself. Bailey was always interesting to work with, he always looked
at his own performance in detail, and so by working with him I was able to
bring my own acting on leaps and bounds. We performed the Christmas shows and
did the local performances of Connections, meaning the cycle had already been
around full circle from where Bailey had started. Conversations about 20
thousand tons of crude oil and how bad boys sit at the back (always) are one of
the things I enjoyed most about Connections, and Bailey was at the centre of
all of that.
Kendal 2016 was just great. From the moment the add me on
snapchat t-shirts were produced, to the time spent in games workshop, the
banditos had the time of their lives taking over the town of Kendal. We even
did a little show, I think. It’s all a little vague.
However, despite all this, Bailey and I’s main memory is the
creation of the Detective Collective, the comedy short that we created with Gold Company. This is where Bailey's talent as a film maker, director and camera
man came into focus (see what I did there) and it was the most fun I think I’ve
ever had working on a project. If you haven’t seen it, click here. It’s great.
And it’s all thanks to the man himself.
It feels odd that on Saturday, we said goodbye to Bailey, as
he goes off to university. He’ll be in the summer project, so click here to
reserve your tickets to see him there. And I should imagine he’ll be watching Remember the Oaks, so if you book tickets here you may catch him then. But
ultimately, Bailey has finished his career at YTYT for now so what will he
miss? There’s NT Connections 2017 (for which the plays have just been announced)
the Princess Bride (Gold Company’s next Christmas show) and all the other
things that occur every year within Yew Tree. It’s sad to see him go, but he’ll
be back I’m sure...
For now, adios
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