Preverb's agenda

Preverb exists to challenge two curses that blight our culture. Specialisation and monotony.

Preverb improvises, acts, writes scripts, stories, poems and music (which it performs too), makes radio sketches, films, cartoons and graphic art. We even made our own website (which is why it looks a bit odd).

Obviously this makes each thing we do a bit rough and ready.

This is a problem for most audiences. They remember not the rich diversity that preverb offers them, only its noticeable imperfections.

Being specialised enough to do one thing so fluently that no one can see the struggle you went through to do it is what audiences expect. The entertainer is supposed to have special talents. If the entertainer shows the audience he is only doing what they could do themselves if they tried, then the audience won't be satisfied with just being the audience any more.

When a stand up comic is no funnier than the audience he stands up in front of, what does the audience do? GET HIM OFF!!!

Entertainment is a business. You pay an entertainer instead of entertaining yourself just like you buy food instead of growing it yourself.

Preverb is not run on a business model. We are not looking for an audience to live off. We are looking for creative people to collaborate with. If the level of collaboration you are comfortable with for now is to watch without joining in- well, we can wait, but the plan is to inspire you rather than run off with your money.

Monotony goes hand in hand with specialisation. If you are good at just one narrowly defined thing then you do that; over and over again; until the audience is sick of it and your career is over. Let's face it, how long do most entertainment acts last? A tiny minority last a working lifetime but for the rest you get used up and go back to grim reality.

To be honest, so much of the arts and entertainment world seems so monotonous to me that I get sick of it almost immediately.

Who wants an alternative? Do you want to be part of it? Want preverb to be part of it?

Resistance is useless.

First words

This blog accompanies the website www.preverb.co.uk, which is a showcase for (largely) comedy audio/movies/written/drawn material.

There are a lot of thoughts and feelings behind this material that are easy to miss (take a look at the material and see if it all makes instant sense to you- really), and they are of far reaching significance- so this blog will give the world the chance to question and judge (and, dare I say, learn?)