Solo Revelations Piece

For this we had to do the continuous writing exercise, letting our train of thought flow onto paper for three minuets. We had lots of stimulus for this and they all had to be a revelation of some sort. We could chose from something being nailed to a tree, shouted in a cave, written in blood, whispered through a wall in a prison cell, spoken to everyone, said in a supermarket, tattooed in a hidden place, shouted from a high tower and spoken at an old persona fire place. I chose whispered through the walls of a prison cell for my stimulus. 

hands, hands, I need hands, spiders, I see spiders,

spiders crawling twisting biting squeezing plotting,

help, I need help, eyes use your eyes,

spies, I hear spies, spies watching mapping, breaking

heaving, grieving, you. I need 

you. 

This doesn't obviously fit with the theme of Britain, but when you look deeper, the spies are the media and how they have distorted and confused so many of us. I used both the theme of Britain and the stimulus as inspiration to write this short, continuous text. 

This piece is a piece depicting someones breakdown. I envision it would lots of coughing and wheezing, a desperate tone to it. At first, I pictured myself being locked in a cage and whispering it to the audience, but after a discussion with the group, Izzie came up with an interesting idea which I would like to carry through. She suggested that I be tied up in a corridor somewhere, like one giant spider myself. I started to think about where I could perform this and what tech requirements I would need. These short solo pieces are going to open the show in a promenade setting, so my place needed to be somewhere accessible. I chose the small out-grove by the toilets. As far as tech requirements, I don't need much. I need string to tie myself up in, a dark area and a small space and luckily I have all of those. 

In my mind, I am in a prison cell which has been over grown with cob webs and eyes. My emotional location is in the middle of a spiders web which I can't escape from. Dark surrounds me and I want to escape. 

I think this will be a strong image as the audience walk down the corridor, and I'm hoping my performance will be as strong.