Dawn: [speaking into a microphone] Ladies and Gentlemen, would you kindly switch off your mobile phones, ring-tones on pagers, key fobs, electronic dog-whistles, ipods, NHS panic buttons and anything that might mean you can still communicate with the outside world. Despite the nature of this performance we would like to reassure you that you are very likely to still exist once the show has finished. Thank you.
Monday, 6 June 2011
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You no longer have 0 comments. Look there is nothing wrong with a story, it's just very difficult to find a good one - look at all the shit films that are made which have huge financial investments. You want a children's game - it would be worth connecting up with the Early Arts web site, they have a lot of practitioners doing stuff for that audience. Given that you are doing something on disappearance then you could play some kind of disappearing games hide and seek or they could watch you play it. Bring objects out onto stage that disappear under things, or behind things, or on top of things, or in things (eating). That's my lot. Lovely note book.
Read the post and you're absolutely right about not needing structure or through line. The audience will do it for themselves and you and the performers will find a rationality to it at some point too.
I know what you mean about lack of time and looking at creating a text/script as a way of planning it all out so that less time is needed with everyone together in the space!
I think this is why 'well made plays' are so appealing/popular. They're so much more of a safer bet.You can make the fragmented nature of the material a feature should you wish to do so! You could show it as work in progress.
It is going to come together and one night a week can be enough.
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