//I felt that it was important, given my development of ideas, to restructure my script. I sat in the space I will be performing in and began to shape my script around my new ideas. I started by thinking about how Tim Crouch in An Oak Tree used the background story of the man whose daughter had died. This gave me the idea to add intertextuality within my piece.
//In the first few weeks of the module, one of our group members did a presentation on Tim Crouch. We were presented with excerpts from two of his performances My Arm (2003) and An Oak Tree (2003). Both performances play around with the conventions of performance.
//Brecht’s theatre is described by Martin Esslin:
“We are so used to the concept of the stage as a faithful representation of the world that we tend to forget how recent a growth the naturalistic theatre is” (Esslin, 1993, 111).
//After being interested in Amy Taubin’s manipulation of the audience’s view, I began to think more about what I wanted my performance to be about. I sketched a rough idea for the set.
//In groups of three we were given the task to take three different forms of text and use one sentence from each to build a short piece of script. These were: