"Revelation Spoken to everyone in a pub
Attention! Attention!
Can I have another pint please. What, what you staring at? Oh ahaha so what I can't piss my life away right. Yeah well maybe I like it. I like to. Who are any of you, yous who don't know nothing about me. Yeah you know nothing. What right do you have to judge me aye. I am sick of this world fucking me over, so I'm just going to get fucked and maybe just maybe the world might leave me alone.
For once, alright. Don't mind me mate you all have a lot to celebrate, winning the war and all that. So drink up. Cheers I'll have mine here"
This is my second improvement from direction to my script.
"PLACE - Revelation spoken to everyone in a pub
Pouring drinks in front of me whilst saying 'I'll have another' Keeping the repetition whilst pouring it into the cups.
'What are you staring at?' *Pause*
*Keep Pouring* I'll have another
'Who are any of you?' *Pause*
*Keep Pouring* I'll have another
'You know nothing' I'll have another
POUR ME ANOTHER DRINK
'Yeah you know nothing'
ANOTHER DRINK
'So what'
ANOTHER ME
'Maybe I like it'
POUR ME ANOTHER
'I like to'
DRINK ANOTHER
'Maybe'
POUR ANOTHER
'I like it'
ANOTHER ME
'I am sick'
POUR ME"
I want my performance to be staged in a dark area. Preferably around the space. This being said, I think that my underlying message is dark, and isn't at all positive. I think the space around me needs to reflect this to allow my words to give less away and in turn, have a metaphorical meaning. My piece is currently based on the stimulus to be spoken to everyone in a pub. At first I took this literally, I spoke about the pub and how it had become my home and that really I liked my self for the way I am. When read out, there was so much more that this piece has to offer. The potential to create something that allows the audience to imagine for themselves. Taking new direction I decided to actually create a piece of repetitive text, which explored and played on words. After evaluating my initial text and then the second text I created, I decided there was still more to do, there were more ways to relate my text back to Britian. So the new text I created played on the sentence 'Pour me another drink'. From this I still played on the words which I had done previously except this time ensured my subcomments related back to Britian.
My new Subcomments
"GREAT BRITIAN THE LAND OF THE GREAT
GREAT BRITIAN THE LAND OF THE COURGOUS
GREAT BRITIAN THE LAND OF INDUSTRIALISM
GREAT BRITIAN MY LAND OF SHAME"
'GREAT BRITIAN MY LAND OF SHAME'
The reason I put this there is to represent the fact that modern Britian now is nothing we can be proud of; as there is a corruption within everything that makes anything we can be proud of so minor on a scale. The use of the phrase 'Pour me another drink' represents the sense of Britian growing to be worse and as we get used to it and see nothing wrong with it. Our view is disorientated and perceptions are different.
With the drinking I feel that people summit to letting the drink take over them. The same with society people know the corruption but still summit to it. It's a continuous cycle.
EVALUATION
On the day of the performance, whilst rehearsing through the pieces, I started to engage my body into my piece. The words had meaning that were expressed through the different shapes I took my body through. I started to think of all the things that makes Britain what it is today and what we as a society have stopped doing over time. Once I had this set, I played around with voice and tone and experiemented how I could say different lines of my text. I wanted to ensure that everything about this performance was engaged experimentally. I looked at the water in my cups and started to explore moving like water - it might of seemed weird but my justification is that we have moved seeminglessly through time without acknowledging the big changes we've made as people in the 21st century. Just like water runs aimlessly I think that of time and nature and evolution. We were all only reacting snippets of life and so we had to keep the energy up throughout the pieces. I found this weird at first during the rehearsals but I got used to it after a while. We didn't get to rehearse our piece to our peers so when it was show time it was show time! For the future I would of spent more time focusing on exploring different ways to push my body and vocal skills to create a meaningful and justifiable experimental decision.
My performance I felt was engaged right from the offset, at first I was scared to fully commit to it during rehearsals but on the day I created my own living world with the piece. I hadn't use the pouring water concept until the performance so I think, I could next time incorporate props into my piece in rehearsals as this could have gone terribly wrong on the night. Lucky I was fortunate that it didn't happen and the water into the cups was a success. My vocalisation was varied and I established two set voices. One to which was rich and strong the other which was staccato and was less supported. I probably could of taken these voices further but with the limited rehearsal time we had, I had no chance to.
What worked well with the promenade pieces is that we all related back to our stimulus'. We engaged in creating an atmosphere about the place. With this atmosphere it allowed the audience to explore in ways they wouldn't imagine. We allowed them to create their own individually story lines. I think in terms of a group performance we all came with the same understanding in delivering our performance. I think we could of all pushed ourselves to relate it back to the stimulus of Britian better. But with more rehearsal time and direction we can improve this in the future. The main improvement of our piece would be just experimentally engage our voices and bodies. This was probably the one thing I can't say everyone did. Overall, it was a perfect sense of life that we all created which was more metaphorically than literally.
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