These two pictures were projected onto a large screen during my performance. I wanted the audience to see how the two women killed themselves, and so I thought that if I did this visually then it would have more of an effect. I feel that this choice of staging worked very well with the two monologues of which I performed, as they consisted of me in character, talking about why I was unhappy with my life and  the pictures that were projected  behind me represented their terrible fates.

This was the screen that I used for during my performance.

He is a visual (blood) artist because he uses his body as a form or art. He tends to cut himself and walk along a white canvas trailing blood as he walks, in a sense leaving a part of him on the canvas.

“I’m essentially a painter who also works in performance. I come from a visual art background and not “live art” or theatre, and this is very important to me as it informs the way my work is read. In the last 20 years or so I have developed ways of working to suit my need at that particular time, in terms of strategy and context, by using painting, installation, sculpture, photography, video and sound.” (Franco B 2011)

To me this is a type of solo performance because he works on his own and expresses himself in a way he feels comfortable.

I want to keep my performance simple, as I feel if there is too much happening on stage then it would detract the audiences attention away from the two characters I am playing. So I feel that two simple spotlights would work well in my performance, as I want them to represent the two women’s worlds. My idea is that once I step into the spotlight I enter their world, and then become them. Furthermore, I am aware that the artiest must to some extent be present within a solo performance and I think that this choice of lighting allows me to go in and out of character in a dynamic way. I also want to add elements of my own personality  within the performance  in order to create meaning. Doing simple things like sitting in the dark with a spot light  can be used within solo performance. It has to be something that is going to keep the audience wondering what is going to come next, like doing something that they will least expect. I believe a space can become anything you want.

Harry Escott’s piece, Unraveling,  is an incredibly moving piece of music. The sounds of ticking in the background reminds me of a clock. Which could be used in my performance as metaphor, in the sense that the two women’s lives are coming to an end. They are counting down. Furthermore, I think it is also such as powerful inspiration song which should emotionally move the audience. I could have it playing at the end of the performance, as the spotlight fades out on the women.