Had some time in Room 1 this morning which allowed me to go through the script and make changes. So I have decided to spend this afternoon with the script, adding all text in, learning lines and making sense of the throughline of the piece.
Problems problems, the only space in the Drama school on thursday is V2 for a couple of hours...I feel like this whole tutorial thing has been botched and despite the fact that I really want to show to Robert, its marred by not having the set, the right size of space. I really need to do a walkround of T4 and get used to the length...how do people who tour their performances get away with this?
Having felt hideously lethargic and guilty over the weekend, and getting up late this morning I feel a lot better for beginning again. Looking at the script makes me realise there is something to work with, to rehearse, to improve. Now I know that I have to be working or at least thinking on it full time until tech time.
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Within the course, I have learned to be site specific even within theatre sites. My preoccupation with using the features available and making the most of the theatre space is admirable in terms of contemporary performance but is this a false reality? Can you really know a space unless you are working within it? My memory of Tramway 4 is different to the reality of it so I am making decisions based on falsehoods.
In some respects, this aim to engage with space is useful because it means I negotiate between my imagined site and the actual site when I get to perform in the space.
We have been lucky to have dedicated performance spaces to create work for. I think the reality of the working world is that this site specific practice can still happen, but it will have to be speeded up considerably, and incorporated into the technical time of setting up performance
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