Stitch interviewed producer Kelvin Fawdrey about this week’s EUTCo production, Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

I asked Kelvin what the role of the producer actually involved and what it was that the producer did.  “Good question” was his initial response! He remarked that while a producer can delegate various production tasks, such as costume and publicity, ultimately “everything is my responsibility”. Kelvin commented that this is a question that many people have asked him and his answers have varied from “the organiser” to “the one crying in the corner with stress” but that the answer he likes best is “I make everything happen”.

Given his picture of the producer and the levels of responsibility and stress which he has to deal with, I asked him what it was that he enjoyed about producing. His rather strange response was, “not being noticed” which he qualified by saying that not being noticed means that “everything is running smoothly and you are doing a good job”. However, he does enjoying feeling responsible for everything and wondered whether it could be “a power trip thing”!

Despite being at uni for fewer than two terms, Kelvin has managed to be involved with three productions. I asked how he first got involved with theatre at university and he told me that he had known what he wanted to be involved with before he even arrived at Exeter, having been in a “really close” A-Level drama class and started to miss it already. He emailed the EUTCo production assistants asking about getting involved and now finds himself running for committee elections. He is also missing being on the stage so perhaps we will see him in a play, rather than crying in the corner, sometime soon.

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Chris Richards