#ERNEST AND THE PALE MOON HOW TO#
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#ERNEST AND THE PALE MOON HOW TO#

People who are just starting out, can often feel bewildered about who to approach, how to get stuff on and whether it's possible to make a career in the arts. We have both, at times, felt certain areas of the creative arts industries to be inaccessible and aloof. One of the things we're really passionate about, is demystifying the process of running a company and making work. 'Working with Zoe has been one of the most artistically inspiring and supportive relationships of my life. Together, we've started a company, initiated our own work, developed contacts, won commissions, played to audiences of all ages, toured the UK, transferred work overseas, and - our proudest achievement of all - we've both become Mums.' (Emma) Our show was ambitious, sweaty and fierce, and it launched the collaborative way of working that has underpinned Pins and Needles' work ever since. It was an irresistible creative partnership, but I had no idea at the time where it would take us.' (Zoe) As a designer I thrive on getting stuck into a challenge and knew straight away she was the sort of director that would keep me on my toes and push me artistically. 'Right from the get-go I was enticed by Emma’s ambitious and innovative ideas. Zoe responded to my pitch, and that production was the beginning of everything.' (Emma)

'I remember sitting in the design studio describing my vision for an adaptation of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE with a cast of 5 that would fit in a small space and featured interactive video, stylised movement and a set that would keep transforming. There was an opportunity towards the end of the training, for the directing students to pitch ideas for a pub theatre show to the design students. Zoe was doing the Design course, and Emma was on the Directing course. What evidence there is, he says, points toward only a “superficial similarity” between menses and moon phases, and “when a correlation occurs, it is by chance.Zoe and Emma met at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2009. He notes that this cycle “varies considerably” among women and points out that our closest primate relatives have menstrual cycles ranging from 10 to 50 days. That link has been assumed rather than studied, he says, and there is actually no real evidence of a connection. One area in which he does not find a strong link between the moon and human biology is the menstrual cycle. This, he says, raises the possibility that we have genes with a “circalunar” clock as well as ones that follow a circadian cycle. Turtles and horseshoe crabs reproduce on moon-related cycles.īut do such links have anything to do with humans? Naylor says “rigorously controlled” studies in sleep laboratories give evidence that human sleep patterns vary with the phase of the moon - even when people have no way of knowing what phase the moon is in. Crayfish, for example, adjust their activity levels in response to the phases of the moon, even when the sky is overcast and they can’t perceive moonlight. Naylor, a professor emeritus of marine biology and ocean science at Britain’s Bangor University, sets out to counter that reluctance by citing patterns, mostly in the marine animals that are his specialty, of moon-related behavior. While modern science accepts that the sun’s 24-hour circadian pattern is wired into the genes of many species, he says, “scientists fearing ridicule” are wary of studying similar moon-related phenomena. In his new book, “ Moonstruck: How Lunar Cycles Affect Life,” Ernest Naylor writes that this history of fantasy and fable has made us too skeptical of actual moon-related effects on earthly beings.

#ERNEST AND THE PALE MOON FULL#

Wild behavior is blamed on the full moon - and the word “lunacy” comes from the Latin name for the moon goddess.

No celestial object has inspired more myth and legend than the moon - pale, mysterious, waxing and waning, inspiration for lovers, creator of tides and trigger for werewolves personified as a deity or a demon or just the man in the moon (though some cultures see a rabbit or a frog or a toad).

Ernest and the pale moon