Makers Diary: Siren Song Outline

This is work I have done on the outline of the piece itself...

SIREN SONG..In 3 Parts

SYNOPSIS
Siren Song, is a devised theatre project that seeks to explore the concepts of woman and trauma. It will examine the audience's experiences of what these concepts mean to and for them through a task-driven, participatory aesthetic. Blending some of the principles of Playback theatre and a postmodernist performance ethic to generate a unique and provocative theatre intervention. The performance will be entirely driven by tasks and games that will ensure a completely different performance and experience each time it is performed.

OUTLINE

Part One: Undressing-dressing down.
Soundscape 1 starts to play.
The 3 performers will enter with a costume rail and a wheelbarrow full of their props, (red high heel shoes, a small wooden model house, a pot of chalk & a portable stereo player).
They will layout the props.
They will introduce themselves.
They will all undress and hang their clothes on the costume rail, each performer will inscribe HER, SHE or HIM on their flesh with a kohl pencil.

Part Two: Telling Tales-like it is.
Soundscape 2 starts to play.
Performers will explain the task to the audience and hand out the chalk.
Performers will put the question to the audience.
Audience will be invited to respond and to inscribe their responses on the floor of the performance space.
The performers will respond to the audience's inscriptions by devising a scenario on the spot utilising the audience responses.
The audience will be invited to offer feedback and to make changes to the devised scenario-they will have the chance to choose the shoes, lighting, sound etc.
The scenario will be performed again by the performers adjusted according to the audience's feedback and choices.

Part Three: Playing- with you.
The performers will invite the audience to a game of musical chairs.
The performers will arrange the chairs according to the number of players and ask each audience member to take a number card, (there will be cards numbered from 1 through to 4).
The audience will pick the CD that they play the game to.
The winner of the game of musical chairs will be holding a number card. The numbers on the card correspond to 4 pre-prepared scenes or scenarios. The number on the card will identify which the scene the performers will present.
The performers will present the chosen scenario.
RUNNING TIME
This will be approx 1 hour and 30 minutes with a post-show discussion lasting approx 30 minutes. So the total running time will be: 2 Hours.