set design
devising drama: <cleansed>
——Adapted from Sarah Kane's play Cleansed 1998
introduction
Sarah Kane's original novel consisted of multiple characters' explorations and choices about love, and the violence, cruelty, blood, and madness that flowed through the text all showed the contradictions of love. In this adaptation, which is a one-man show, all the other characters are implicitly revealed through the main character, Tinker, in the process of cleaning the photographs. Once again, the creator puts his own spin on this brutal drama, that is, underneath the monstrous love, the excesses, flows the protagonist's quest for pure emotion. The process of developing the photograph and the co-existence of the fragments of the image are used as a form of interaction and cross-narrative throughout the course of the play.
Design Concept
The performance takes place in a small factory building that has not been formally used, and the design draws on the original qualities of the space, such as the abandoned iron railings in the space and the protruding dormer windows.A central part of the design of the performance space is the plastic film that wraps the entire space and even the objects from the inside, giving a sense of suffocation while responding to an extreme of love and an act of violence. This contradiction between extreme and cruelty is also reflected in the plastic film, which is always full of wrinkles.
devising drama: i want a country
——Adapted from
Andreas Flourakis
's play i want a country
introduction
In the adapted version, what was originally a lot of verbal text is transformed into body language and fight scenes, and ultimately the vision for the creation of a new nation becomes what it means to be safe, an exploration of man's most fundamental need, which ultimately all comes down to love.
Design Concept
This is an environmental theatre, the venue is chosen to be an outdoor lake island and the corridor and platform leading to it, so the performance space can be divided into three parts to echo the plot changes and the psychological changes of the characters in the play.
The front platform is made up of large and small stones and broken wood to create the decadence of the old country's demise, the long corridor is still extended with small broken stones to make the escape road narrow and crowded, and finally the platform in the centre of the lake uses painted wooden strips and thick ropes to create the feeling of being on a boat.