So, after a tough week drafting, writing, performing to an empty room - some siginificant progress has been made. That's the most important thing. It's very rare I get to work on something for a period uninterrupted by other things in my life, be it work, other froms of creative output or just the hassle of working mainly in London that gets in the way - I'm sure other people have the same complaint too!

Working on the show in this way I begun to thread what already existing show together with lots of new ideas drafted on different bits of paper. On the floor of the Pit over the last few days have been  the names of the various secctions of the show written on separate pieces of paper which I've moved about as I've tried to work out a clearer struture. There is definitely more sstructure to the piece, again  - progress!

Setting out aims at the berginning of the week I was very aware of my original concerns when I began peforming TDDUP. Perhaps the main issue was that of voice -  finding my own voice. Working in stand up and other areas - radio, performance art - this is a question that I find incredibly difficult and I think the only way to solve it is to perform but performing in several different areas with each of those mediums varying demands places more pressure on finding a solution to this question. For instance, the voice  and tone I would use in stand up doesn't suit discussion of my work in performance art venues. I've tried to get around  this issue by collapsing the distinction into what I find most natural but it does mean I've had to compromise some of the aims with which I started the project. For example, I originally intended some of TDDUP to be educational but was well aware that the subject of economics is too abstract in some sense and one of my aims was to try and overcome that. Talking to Stewart Lee in a radio interview for TDDUP recently he talked about how Spin and PR had created an era where subjects such as economics and politics as well as the people prominent in them have become incredibly abstracted and difficult to discuss. This is something I keenly feel as I try to put together performance pieces about politics and economics - I don't want to reduce anything to a stereotype but it's hard not too when things are so abstract.

More concretely, the show - whereas earlier was a lecture done in a non-performative way - has evolved into a character piece. Putting all these characters together has been, like I said, what I've been mainly doing this week at the Basement. I've decided to move into this area because for of my own discomfort with performing strictly literal autobiographical material and, two, there are so many aspects to cover in finance and politics alongside art and culture that I don't feel just telling one story from one perspective does it justice.

I look forward to working out if I've made the right decision!