Our aim was to understand the important role that each sense plays in terms of allowing the audience member to recreate a memory. By reading Stephen Di Benedetto’s The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre we gained knowledge of how to exploit each sense and use the storytelling within our performance to highlight each […]
Sound
In our performance we used three microphones to create the sound the audience would hear during the performance. We used three because one microphone would be heard in the left ear, the other in the right ear and the third would be heard in both. We wanted to create a sense of being immersed within […]
Making the audience our focus
One thing I have learnt whilst studying different types of experimental performance is that a lot of performances appear to be based around the audience. We looked at the work of Marina Abramovic and liked her ideas but we felt there was something missing. Her work is very much based around her whereas we wanted […]
Initial Performance Ideas
When first thinking about what we wanted to base our performance around we knew we wanted to include some kind of technology but we wanted to understand exactly how technology should be used in a performance. We spent time researching different theatre companies that based their performances around technology and this allowed us to evolve […]