Second Post

So I haven’t been on here in a while, but I’ve been very busy and lots has changed. First of all, I have a group- win! I’m with the delightful Kat, Casey, Frankie and Gary. Second of all, we have an idea!  I’ll outline it quickly for you.

We plan to go around popular venues in Lincoln with postcard sized pieces of card, and invite anyone to draw or write something that relates to either their view of Lincoln, or an experience they’ve had of Lincoln. We’ll then take a photo of the person holding their postcard and put that photo on a massive piece of canvas that will be be displayed somewhere like town or the Engine Shed. We’ll be filming the whole experience, and plan to show that aswell as some form of physical theatre along side it, probably in the Shed.

And that’s that. I do like this idea, it certainly sticks to what we were told to stick to- “In Lincoln, about Lincoln,”, I just can’t help but feel we need to develop it. It reminds me a little of postsecret (http://www.postsecret.com/) but tamer. We have agood idea, it just needs to expand.

The reason I haven’t posted in a while is cause I went to London for a few days. I’m not going to lie and say this was for research for site specific and that was the only reason, cause nothing could be further from the truth but London’s such a miassively cultured and inspirational place that it was easy to come back with a freshly motivated perspective towards this performance.

I want our performance to do more than have people say what they already know. I’m not saying we need to inspire people, or teach them, or surprise them. My only goal is to change their day. I’m reading a book at the moment that says “The future you have today isn’t the same as the future you had yesterday,” which quite succinctly says something I want to get across. Emily Dickinson also puts it across well “Forever is composed of nows,”> I want our performance to kick start the audience’s consciousness, to make them wake up if only for a few moments, and try and achieve something.

All speeches are trite now, it seems. You can read inspirational phrases on every cup, coaster and teacloth. Performance will always be a method of accessing people and taking them unaware, which is certainly what I want to achieve.

This being said, I haven’t spoken to the group yet, so bear with me. For the record, I do love our idea. I just think we’ve got a lot of potential both in a group and our limiatations to do something extraordinary.

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