Makers Diary: The Re-structuring of Siren Song in 3 Parts

In light of my reading and thinking yesterday, I spent all morning re-working Siren Song and I wanted to share my initial thoughts.

Siren Strong Re-Development
-The performer’s greet the audience as they enter and encourage them to stay on their feet and chat (about ‘Her’).
-Once all of the audience are in (and hopefully milling about in the space), debs will clear her throat and deliver the first ‘She’ text (she will do it from cue cards like a speech at a wedding or eulogy)
-Inscription section will start with Nigel. They will write on each other and themselves as they deliver the text, then move amongst the audience offering them the chance to inscribe on their bodies (tell us what they did to her).
-Nikki plays a game of Musical Share but instead of chairs it is based on musical statues…..if you move then you have to tell us a secret about her.
-Nigel interrupts the game, gets on the block and announces “we know a story about her; do you want us to tell you or is there something that one of you would like to share?”
(If the audience want to share, then the first scene is skipped but if no one does the scene plays out)
-Debbie leads a game of Who Am I, (all those who want to play have to write the name of a famous woman or person on a sticker and stick it to someone else head without them seeing it). Each person gets a chance to ask 5 questions with yes/no answers to guess who they are.
-Nigel leads a game of She Has Never (he starts by saying she has never….if you have done the thing you stay stood up if you have never done it you stay sitting down. This keeps going until only one person is stood up; they then have to lead the game….which starts all over again).
-Nikki leads a game of Why is She Crying Charades? (it is the same as charades only you have to think of reasons why she is crying…mime them and the others have to guess; if you guess you take a turn).
Nigel interrupts the game, gets on the block and announces “we know a story about her; do you want us to tell you or is there something that one of you would like to share?”
(if the audience want to share, then the second scene is skipped but if no one does the scene plays out)
-Debbie leads a game of Pass Her parcel (there is a parcel that gets passed around to music, when the music stops the person holding the parcel has to unwrap a layer. In each layer is something of hers with a tag attached that asks the audience member to tell us about the object)
-Nikki interrupts and does a new ‘she’ text from cue cards (I need to write this), again as if at a wedding or funeral.
-Nigel interrupts the game, gets on the block and announces “we know a story about her; do you want us to tell you or is there something that one of you would like to share?”
(If the audience want to share, then the third scene is skipped but if no one does the scene plays out)
-Debbie leads a game of she went to the suicide shop (this is the same as I went to the supermarket…the first person says what they bought at the suicide shop…which is a way of taking your own life…then the next person has to say that and add another one to it…it moves around the room like this until there is a winner.
-Nigel gets up on the block and yells ‘stop’ at the top of his voice…..all three of them come to the front and take a bow.