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Starting Blocks invites five artists or companies to form a peer network and develop brand new work - to be showcased as part of Sprint. Over ten weeks, the selected artists meet weekly to share practise, ideas and their developing projects. They are also given space to create their work. This year's artists are Greg Wohead, Bread & Goose (see above), Chris Dugrenier, Rachel Mars and HalfCut. Their projects explore straight male cross-dressing; espionage; ageing, and defying it; humour and unfunniness; and the journey from birth to death. In the last two years, Rachel Mars' hit show The Way You Tell Them, Louise Orwin's Pretty Ugly and Tom Frankland and Keir Cooper's Don Quijote have started life on Starting Blocks and gone on to national and international tours, four- and five-star press reviews and extended runs at CPT and beyond. This year's Starting Blocks showcase features mouth-watering new work from Foxy & Husk; Joe White; Natalie Clarke and her brother Edmund Sage-Green; Tom Hughes; Lawrence Speck and Joe Wild; and includes How to Drown a Fish by Grace Gibson.