Reflective Practitioner: Task and Activity

In Siren Song, the performers are not really actors or even performers in the traditional sense of the word, they do not have a part to play or perform; instead they have games, tasks and activities to complete. It is the way in which they approach and negotiate these games, tasks and activities that makes up their performative presence/performance personae.

I do not think that these performance personas can be fixed; I suspect that they will be in a constant state of flux, depending on the activity they are engaged in at any one particular moment. They will also respond and eneage with the audience which will also alter their performative presence and personae. They will in essence be present as a performative version of themselves and thus a carrier for the performance and a vessel of possibilities. They will carry and deliver the text or game, the meaning of which is multiple, with a plethora of possibilities that the audience must engage with to make something of.

How do you train to be a cipher or vessel in this way? How do you devise or rehearse for becoming a vessel or cipher? These are questions that we will have to work towards furnishing with possible answers and solutions.