BOOKTONES My Site Specific Performance aims to provide a rare platform for a select audience to perceive ‘The Library’ in a unique and interesting style. It will be accomplished through the use of auditory media and a visual performance working in tangent with the setting, atmosphere and visuals to create a sensory experience unlike … Continue reading “Callum Alexandré Izzard “BOOKTONES” – Final Blog Submission”
Framing Statement We were set the task of producing a site specific performance within the University of Lincoln Library. As Mike Pearson states, “site specific gives the audience a reason to pause and to stop and appreciate the space we have taken” (2010, 15). Lend a Hand will take place on the 5th May 2016 … Continue reading “Lend a Hand – Final Blog Submission: Kimberley Bowe”
‘Lend a Hand’ What We Did Our performance wanted to explore the past of the library, whilst paying particular attention to when it was a Grain and Goods Warehouse from July 1907 to 1967. We wanted to use the elements of postmodern theatre where “drama is emptied of most of the features that have traditionally … Continue reading “‘Lend a Hand’- Final Blog Post”
A Framing Statement We want to show the audience spaces in the library that individuals could not have noticed before, in a different light. Using the old painted over words on the side of the building, which once belonged to the Goods and Grains Warehouse as an example. We want to base our performance on … Continue reading “Final Blog Submission – DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE? – Benjamin Rowan”
Framing Statement What is Site-Specific? Site-Specific performance is creating and performing a piece of work that is not in the conventional theatre space. ‘A large part of the work has to do with researching a place, often an unusual one that is imbued with history or permeated with atmosphere’ (Pavis, 1998, 337-8). Pearson leads on … Continue reading “DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE? – Final Blog Post: Kerrie Crockford”