Original Ideas

The ideas we collated based on each stimulus for our experimental performance:

-              The past/future

-              Memories kept and memories lost

-              Explosion

-              Overthinking

-              Claustrophobia

-              Millions of things happening at the same time

-              Imagination

-              Everlasting

-              Confusion

-              Worry/anxiety

-              Enclosed

-              Order

-              Change

-              Different perspectives

-              Strength

-              Connection

-              Flexible

-              Well structured

We started to form some basic ideas to see if we could start devising some material.

We thought about objects or materials we could incorporate into our piece; paint, building blocks/Lego, masks, a pair of glasses. However, we realised that the paint and building blocks had nothing to do with our idea of perspective – as well as it becoming messy.

We still kept with the idea of colours (just without the paint) and came up with the idea of splitting our area in half with half a coloured backdrop and half a black and white backdrop, representing two separate worlds in which we both live in. One of us could wear colour and the other black and white. We could then perform a piece of physical theatre in front of it. We then connected the colour theme to emotions; happiness, sadness, excitement, anger and fear. We thought we could show these emotions through physical theatre to show that the brain goes through many emotions. This will then show the effect that different emotions have on a person and their outlook on life as well as how other people see them.

We then decided to change the plain background to a picture printed multiple times – half of them in coloured in and half of them in black and white. This will symbolise how different people see the world in different ways. This also links to the emotions and different colours present in life.

As we started to devise, we realised we weren’t feeling anything from our idea therefore our movements had no purpose. So we paused and thought, what could we do that easily shows to the audience how we are the same yet different? And we came up with the use of simple statements about ourselves that were the same and relates to both of us but some were slightly different:

I am a woman

I am an individual

I have brown/black hair

I live in my world of colour/black and white

I have 10 fingers and toes

I don’t/do wear a watch

I wear glasses

I have a heart and soul

I see things in black and white/colour

(This is not our complete script but this is what we have come up with so far)

This will teach our audience that although we may look different, we are all human.