Perspective
Today's rehearsal taught me that our space has an important ability to present interesting and stimulating perspectives for the audience. The inside of it enabled us to experiment with such ideas, and the cozy indent where we have decided to place the audience gives them the maximum ability to do so, it also gives them the fullest way of experiencing our performance, and we explored this through trials of moving ourselves personally around to discover the best possible place.
Another important element of perspective in our piece is the idea of sound perspective, the fact that our space is placed under some stairs allows our sound to travel through material, it gives us the higher ground element to disperse between many areas as well as the walls and echoey fabric of the walls inside the site. This may cause the audience to have varying experiences with sound, due to their varying positioning and what mentally echoes personally with them.
Space
Exploring the spacing inside our site as a place that is quite compact and small, means that the control that we must have as well as the placement of our varying characters is penultimately important for this performance and in rehearsal we explored the scenes and freely changed the spacing to give the audience the best visual experience. The placement of our audience close together minimises the space between them and causes their discomfort to reflect that of the main character, them living through his "7 Second" life and travelling with him on this journey should undergo a similar experience to them as well, so that they become much more active rather than passive in their viewing of the piece.
Scenes
Our development of the scenes means that we disjointed the chronology of it all. This is shown my our initial structure that we had decided in the previous week, but felt the need to change and adapt and develop as we reflected back on the space we had present. We found rehearsal in that space constantly allowed us to do that effectively as different aspects triggered our imagination and enabled us to work directly from the stimulus rather than create from our mind. The recordings also added a layer of depth to the performance and gave the character more to work from as we listened to the recordings of general life that would occur in your seven second life and fed it into the piece.
Importance of Seven seconds
It became immediately evident that we wanted to incorporate the importance of the number 7 that we had received from our research into the 7 Second Theory and so we wanted that to run parallel in our piece. This is done throughout the scenes of childhood into adulthood and is a reoccurring subtle theme throughout, which incorporates the research we have done previously.
Utilising the MT people walking past
In rehearsal we found the constant throng of students quite adaptable for our piece as it added to the perspective mentioned earlier and easily represents a part of the characters life. This makes our space even more crucial to our piece as the atmospheric elements of chatting and footsteps etc. become a constant part of our site that should be involved rather than controlled and got rid of throughout our performance, it adds an element of changeability and reflects what unconventional theatre is made for and how it causes the actor to work even harder to remain on top of it all.
Symbolism of the doorway
In discussion with our group we found the symbolic meaning of the doorway created narrative for our piece and personally I found the interesting proscenium arch-esque appearance incredibly reminiscent of any kind of doorway/portal or cupboard that you can discover in most places and adds to the kind of relationship of the piece with an audience member, as it is although unique as a site, can be easily transferred into the audiences experience and memories of any aspect of their life. As well as it also being an window into the soul of our protagonist which we have moulded into a multirole so that both actors get an equal amount of exploration and living within the space as it also represents different time periods of their life as different people.
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