Masquerade Stimulus (PMD1)

- Identity, society pressures, putting on a façade

- Fairy-tale aspect?

- Putting on a façade, two faced

- Pretty Little Liars, stimulus? Masquerade Halloween special

-  Festival performance

-  School prom, society pressures opens up different styles to work with, the mask of the red death, script/stimulus idea, modern version

- Royalty, hierarchy, different statuses

Beckett's monologue technique would be good to use for an aspect of this performance because you could create a monologue based around the above ideas and use it within a pre show for example to make it clear what the piece is about and to make the performance as effective as possible.

This stimulus and performance idea would be aimed for 16-18 year olds because this age group is an old enough age to understand the concepts of hidden identity and with the mask of the red death being a mature story, this age range is old enough to understand the concept. Not only this they are young enough to not get bored of the story as and older age group may get bored as they could have potentially seen similar performances previously.

This is a good stimulus and performance idea to follow because it doesn't require much research so therefore we can just devise from our own ideas. Not only this we can use our own resources but even if we don't have enough resources we can use minimal staging and make the lighting dark, therefore this will link to the façade concept and the hidden identity and we will also be following the work of Artuad and he created 'uncomfortable theatre'