Perhaps no clothes, make-up and wigs…just the shoes, lots of scrummy red shoes in all styles: ballet pumps, stilettos, platform heels, pvc boots, trainers, pumps…wellies…
Maybe have HIM, HER, SHE on placards that can be moved around between the performers…no, I like the inscribing.
Why are you crying?
Why is SHE crying?
What's the matter with HER?
Maybe the performers could inscribe each others bodies as part of the performance.
Love as a theme, requited love, love gone wrong, the wrong love, bad love, forbidden love, love triangle.
HER body was bruised and beaten because…………………?
SHE knew her relationship with HER was……………………?
SHE knew it was HIM that………………………………..?
At the start the performers enter with baskets of shoes and lay them all out really carefully around the space…then they strip down to their underwear…take off their everyday make-up…take down their hair….then inscribe their bodies with their performance personae of ether HIM, HER or SHE….then step up onto little wooden blocks…no piles of big medical encyclopaedias…..just stand for a while, stood together in silence….then the ring master could speak…direct address, she is the audiences guide….she will be their way into the perf.
Its all about watching them take up their perf identity.
Why does HER heart feel so heavy?
Why does SHE need HIM?
Could have the words written in the space already…projected into the space.
Perfs will play out their ideas, try out their suggestions…play in front of the audience…for the audience…with the audience…not just re-enacting their stories in a naturalistic way…we will explore the material that they supply in various and multiple ways….use it in surprising and fresh ways…not just reflect back at them but mediate the material and transform their material.
Could have different coloured lights to choose from…the audience could pick.
Create a soundscape for the opening section.
Let the actors choose the suggestions that they want to play with, try out…transform.
Why is SHE leaving HIM?
Why is SHE bleeding?
Ask three questions, make 3 sections/scenarios/scenes…negotiate them…replay them.
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