When I read the articles and watched the news, I felt suffocated and trapped and really wanted to physically translate this sense of being held captive, restricted, controlled and pressurised by the government and society as a young adult. Being trapped always conjures up a picture of a spider’s web and how insects get stuck in the webbing with usually no chance of escape. This totally symbolises my concerns that many young adults are caught up in a web of debt from which there is little chance of escape for many years so I took this idea for my performance.
From this light bulb moment, I have written my performance; I will be in the middle, surrounded by rope that will entangle me in a mess. I don’t talk but there is an over voice speaking a random and abstract monologue of thoughts about what a young person in 2016 feels about the current issues as well as some facts/figures of the news on the lost generation. Pieces of paper are attached to the rope and on them are written old school reports and comments on me such as ‘failure’ etc. The audience can come and help snip me out of this entanglement of a confused, stressed mind and help me step out into a ‘bright future’.
The ideas written on the paper are:
- Audio
- Thoughts
- Fragmented
- Faint thoughts
- ‘Life issues on a rope’
- When an audience
- As the performer you get anxious because they are being too slow about it; you just panic and freak out by trying to get out and move everywhere possible.
- Then the audio goes onto a darker tone on the pressure of life. (climax)
- Then calms done and goes to neutral but with tiny bits that are panicked.
My idea will be demonstrated using a bungee cord on each side of me; this will help me move easily and give me height and a strong image when the rope moves with me, as I panic in the climatic section.
I feel that this is still a very rough idea and isn’t clear enough for an audience to comprehend; the set will also be quite difficult to construct.