Butterfly Stimulus (PMD1)

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”

Patterns of the butterfly – look like a pathway – showing the pathway of the butterfly, representing its purpose

Beckett- The meaning of life - Using Beckett’s views by using the idea of shadows and the shadow represents there being no meaning to life as this is what Beckett believed and portrayed within his work.

-          Using the patterns to show that there is a meaning to life, so the audience are being shown two different view-points to the meaning of life. 

Shadow of the butterfly – hidden identity – the shadow is different to the butterfly itself.

Shadow underneath the butterfly represents being torn between two different pathways - Jekyll & Hyde

-          The angle and the devil

-          The good and the bad - The mind & the heart

-          Your mind telling you one thing but your heart telling you something different. 

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Human life – born a blank slate – the changes we go through develop us into beauty

Stanislavski – naturalism – emotional memory – the audience feel what we feel/ know how we feel because they can relate to it.  - Caterpillar – ugly – turns into a butterfly – beauty.

I believe that Beckett and Stanislavski are the best practitioners to work in the style of because with Beckett we can use his views and his beliefs to offer alternative view points within our performance which will become thought provoking to the audience and will enable them to understand the moral to the story. Stanislavski is also a good practitioner to use because we can use his techniques that are mentioned above to entice the audience and this will also make the performance more relatable which means that it will be easier for audience to understand the message that we are trying to communicate.

For this stimulus I think the age range that we would focus on is 17-25. This is because the topic focuses heavily on the meaning of life and if we live for a purpose. This may be hard for younger people such as primary school children to fully understand. Not only this at the age of 17 + you are at a mature age so therefore would take it seriously where as young teenagers may not be mature enough to fully understand and comprehend the meaning/moral. 

We decided that this performance idea is not appropriate because to show the ideas effectively it would require a lot of resources and possibly a projection in the background for the audience to fully understand the moral to the story as well as to make the performance effective and given that we have limited resources due to the fact we are not a company, it would be hard to portray this to a high enough standard.