Devising 1

We found the most difficult part of devising was, coming up with the original inspiration, we had to look at our site (Stage Dock Door) on several occasions, and view it from different viewpoints to be able to come up with an idea for our piece. This was a really unproductive way of devising our piece, as it meant that every different idea we came up with couldn’t merge with a previous idea, for example we thought that the red paint on the wall was reminiscent of blood, however nothing else in the site complimented this initial idea. One part of devising that our group found difficult was creating a performance without a linear narrative.

A major issue with the devising process was how the group wanted to create the piece, in any group of people this would be a problem, but simply because of the lack of time we had to devise our piece, it became a huge problem, the two major opposing ideas were to do with the storyline, one idea was to create a storyline, and then fit the site into this idea, in my opinion this idea could not have worked, as the performance had to involve the site as much as possible, and if we created a story beforehand, it would have taken away from the devising process on-site.   The other idea was to pick out all of the local conditions from the environment, and use these objects and this architecture to create our performance.  We had to discover some middle ground that could incorporate both ideas.