This week we carried on looking at text and improvisation of performers, including one of Proto-type theatre’s pieces where a script is written and a certain amount of performers are chosen. The performers have no idea what has been written for them and anyone can say any line if they feel the time is right. We decided to emanate the original piece with three unsuspecting performers of our own. I will place below the last two minutes of the performance.

The piece proved to reveal more about the performers themselves, rather than the text which to an extent became irrelevant. Anything could have been written, but what was more interesting to focus on became the performers and how they both reacted to what they were saying and how they presented it. There were so many possibilities, and sometimes the most interesting moments were when it became silence. The anticipation of who would next say a line somehow became more intriguing than when confidence grew and the speech was quick-paced. As an experiment this put the performers as the art, which is what we are currently looking into doing with our feeding piece.