Created and Performed by Jenna Watt  / Co-Directed by Rachel Moffat / Music by Matthew Hicks / Visuals by Matthew Pattinson

It's Spring,

It's 1993,

It's Grebe Park, Inverness,

It's 4pm

It's you and me,

It's us against them,

It's a risk,

It's a baseball bat and broken ribs,

It's OK.

It's Ok, It's Only Temporary is a live art action that explores a true story where in childhood the performer was the victim of an act of violence carried out by her peers. It was an accident, a moment where play took a naive but deliberate step into something more serious. We follow the performer as she gives an account of the events leading up to the incident in 1993, and it's effects 18 years later.

Sometimes lives are held to ransom because of one event, because of one thing you did or didn't do or one thing that had nothing to do with you. Everybody knows about it and you resign yourself to it, it did happen, you were the 'little kid that…' and despite two broken ribs, you're still here with nothing to show for it.

During this performance there is a five minute action involving apples and a baseball bat.

It's OK, It's Only Temporary has featured as a Scratch performance at the Arches, a work in progress at the Forest Fringe 2010 and was developed further during a Residency at The Basement, Brighton in April 2011 and presented at Converge with the Edinburgh Peer Group, May 2011.

Images courtesy of Rachel Henson & Jenna Watt