Moments in Motion

In 2005 Daryl created his very first independent show. Moments in Motion was a one man show that explored childhood memories of loneliness and their impact on adult life. A mixture of comedy, theatre, movement and a trapeze!

Moments in Motion was a story of a young Disabled gay man looking for Mr Right, and spending anxious hours by the phone waiting for the guy he met in a nightclub to call. The experience triggers flashbacks to childhood experiences of waiting on hospital trolleys for operations, the cold feeling on the anaesthetic entering the bloodstream and spending nights on the hospital wards alone.

This autobiographical show sprang from Daryl’s own life, both as a gay man living in London and as a child growing up in Nottingham where he was in and out of hospital until his late teens.

“People in the gay clubs were fascinated by the way I danced on my crutches, for me it was just dancing. So I started to wonder how mobility aids might be used to create different styles of movement. People think that if you have a mobility aid it means your movement is restricted, but actually the point of them is to help you move. I started thinking: how far could I push myself on a pair of crutches? I began playing with different sizes of crutches, oversized ones, undersized ones, leg braces which make your legs rigid – to discover forms of movement that were different from the norm. And at one point while I’m moving across the stage I just continue up onto the trapeze.”

Supported by Arts Council England and Jacksons Lane. Directed by Georgina Lamb.