today we each performed a small piece of theatre that we had created based on different research topics on memory... once we had seen the performances we had a group discussion on what we thought were good ideas and what may work within our show... some of the ideas that came out of it included:
> lecture
> voiceover
> audience role?
> brain in a jar image
> one man show?
> montages
> poems/poetry
> tricking the eyes/senses = tricking the memory
> flashbacks linking to the past... can they be remembered correctly?
> Amnesia
> memories seen in third person
> coma's waking up and not having memories of the new world..
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> after this we took turns to recall memories and try to give as much detail to the
> group explaining the memory like telling a story... then used various senses to see if they added to improving the memory of worked against them, also from the audiences' point of view whether listening to the memories increased the experience having other senses stimulated at the same time.
Sharing our memories
Why did we choose those ones?
How did the chocolate help or interfere with the retrieval of memory?
Which bits did we make up to describe it linearly?
How did the smells conjure memory or emotion?
What do we use smells in show for?
Why do we want audience memories? What is in it for them and how do we use them?
Why are memories so filmic?
How did our memory changed once we had shared it?
How did we see it? Were we in it, or our point of view?
How do others remember that same memory?
Were we sharing just a memory or something more of ourselves?
How Do We Turn this INTO THEATRE?
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