The Living Gallery 12/01/17

Idea development and evaluation

[To do with the painting

Red- pain and damage
White- untouched part of mind, what hasn't been affected
Black- the missing memories/ nothingness/ the bad things]

Double shock machine

If we both press the buzzer we both get a massive shock
If one of us presses the buzzer the other person gets a light shock
If neither of us press the buzzer we both get a large shock
This will show how we condition ourselves to work together to minimise the pain we feel. At first we will just receive and give the shocks randomly but we will gradually show a change as we create a rhythm to minimise our pain

Make a dialogue
Link with shock machine
Inset with physical

Physical theatre (scrap)
Short argument
Shock machine- learn to work together
Repeat

Chris’ suggestion “As the couple are arguing, the audience can be standing either side of the couple and there will be something written on their shirts/ jumpers etc. The couple would gradually strip of a piece of clothing to break down a layer of their personality. When they regain the closes it shows that the couple never really learnt anything and didn’t change to begin with.”

We have decided to change the whole idea completely. We cut out the physical theatre part of the routine due to the fact it didn’t fit in with our much more developed idea. We agreed to try and develop the idea of using one of the experiments one of the scientist from the documentary did but turn it in a way that can work the arguing couple. By using this idea it shows the couple being taught not to fight however, from discovering that the shocks only worked for a certain amount of time, they really didn't learn anything and resume back to behaving badly and arguing.