Ensemble to Solo: a struggle
WEEK 7
01.08.2022 - 05.08.2022
Ensemble to Solo:
a struggle
01.08.2022
Still riding off of the thrill from working with the ensemble once again from the Frantic Summer School, I have found it difficult to adjust getting back into working solo again. I am aware my heart lies with the ensemble, so I feel like I am going through a somewhat ensemble heartbreak at the moment and I am recovering from this ended relationship. I have been here before though and it is only temporary, hopefully...
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02.08.2022
I have been storing my observations in and around Manchester for my next 'I see' text section. I wrote it out and this was the result:
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The 'man at the site' is a follow on from the construction men in my first 'I see' section. It is also the beginning of my fictional telling of one man's journey. This text, therefore, is comprised of auto-biographical and fictional text. I did see baby shoes on top of a bin and people disgusted at a dead rat outside a flat building, and I took particular notice on how it made me feel and why it stood out to me. These things looked out of place to me and wrong to me and so I became passionate about writing it out. I've found that text comes to me easier when I have feelings of confusion or things can't be explained.
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05.08.2022
On the train home, I got a surge of inspiration and I thought 'this could be my moment of quietness' that I was looking for after Frantic. I got my notebook out and started jotting ideas down...
I then wrote out some automatic text. I thought I might be able to introduce text into my last potential chair/train motif as a variation, and also as a way of weaving my identity into the show.
