Site Specific

Today, we started working on our next unit, site specific. The first thing we did was brainstorm different locations we could think of in smaller groups. We are restricted to our local area because we want as many people to come watch the piece as possible, where as if its in a remote location or a far away destination people may not be likely to come and watch. 

Next lesson we narrowed it down to a couple of locations where we would like to perform and start to think of some ideas of what we could perform. The whole group liked the idea of Fort Amherst in Chatham, not only for it's atmospheric tunnels, but the fact that it gives us the option to perform inside and outside so light isn't a restriction. It is also a very large space so its almost made for a promenade performance, however a few limitations we may face are how big the tunnels are, it could be very difficult to squeeze a class of 13 and an audience in part of the tunnel systems making the performance rather difficult and possibly dangerous, to combat this we would have to try and make our scenes smaller with less people in them and maybe do a few performances each night for a couple of nights so our audience isn't too big.

Our location is our stimulus for this piece so we began to think of what kind of performance we could create. As finding a scripted piece to fit 13 people into would be near impossible. We came up with the idea that fort Amherst is being used as a mental department where, somehow the mentally ill are being drawn to something within the fort. We thought using a camcorder film would also add to the eeriness of the piece, before bringing the video to life in an interactive performance that involves the audience, breaking the forth wall.