We've devised an ambitious Pecha Kucha experiment with our friends at Capital Theatre Festival and Pecha Kucha Birmingham...

20x20 plays, newly written for a joint event to close the Capital Theatre Festival and to be held at mac, Birmingham on Sunday May 27th.

Here's what we're doing:

› We've lined up 8 photographers/visual artists to supply a set of 20 images.

› We're passing one of these sets of images to each of our 8 writer/performers a couple of weeks before the gig.

› The writers are going to write a new six and a half minute play inspired by the 20 images they have been given. (We're going to allow the writers to reorder the 20 images to make their play work).

› On the night, the writers will perform their play in the PK 20x20 format.

Exciting, huh?

Here's the link to book a ticket - click here - tell your friends!

For the Pecha Kucha Global Cities week, Kiel, the PKN organiser from Fresno, California emailed some of the other PKN organisers around the world to collect shots of their cities for him to put into a PK presentation for audience members to improvise (like we did at PKN #6 and will again!) - and Coventry was one of them! I sent him this shot of the new Severn Trent building, Civic Centre 4 and the Cathedral spire in the background. It features about 2mins 47secs in if you're interested - see if you can spot it!