You're in a box, the box will always be a box and you will always be in the box

Category Theoretical Readings and Performance Inspiration

Who is performing?

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance states ” by most definitions, the audience and/or the spectator fundamentally constitute theatre and performance by witnessing it and at least partially producing its meaning (Allain,2006 p.132). With reference to our performance the question… Continue Reading →

This is the record of a Box Man…

Kobo Abe’s novel The Box Man tells the story of a nameless protagonist who wears a cardboard box over his head and describes the world outside that he cannot see, with his imagination. This links to our concept of narrating various… Continue Reading →

Have you experienced reality…what is the real thing?

Colin Counsell states “We never encounter the real world, only culturally shaped formulations of it, so the reality that we experience is ‘textual’ even as we perceive it” (1996, p.207). This questions the way we think and view the world,… Continue Reading →

Production Values.

On the day of the performance we were discussing what we wanted the audience to see when they entered the room. We wanted to make the participant feel that they were not in control of what was to happen.  We… Continue Reading →

Reckless Sleeper

Once the audience member is inside the box they are entering a world of theatrical performance; ‘Theatre is something which engages both the eye and the ear. The two public senses are seeing and hearing..’ (Sandford, 1995, p.51). While inside… Continue Reading →

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