Song Lyrics Stimulus (PMD1)

We press play, don't press pause

Progress, march on

With the veil over our eyes

We turn our back on the cause

'Til the day that my uncles can be united by law

When kids are walking 'round the hallway plagued by pain in their heart

A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are

And a certificate on paper isn't gonna solve it all

But it's a damn good place to start

No law is gonna change us

We have to change us.

“March on”

-          Nothing goes on hold

-          No matter what happens you have to keep going

-          You can “press pause”

Showing everyday lives

 Split screen – one person who struggles and has a tough life that can’t look after their family the way that they want to

-          Another family who are wealthy, have the perfect family and not have any worries

Both ‘stories’ end the same and both families have similar struggles that they have to deal with and it shows that no matter what situation you are in, the end results are the same.

Beckett – use his views that there is no meaning to life and that it doesn’t matter where you come from because everyone’s end result is the same.

Stanislavski – using naturalism within the actual performance and bringing in elements of emotional memory to entice the audience in the performance and involve them. 

“A word so hateful” – Like you’re living a nightmare

You have all of these dreams and aspirations but the demanding aspect of society and all of the negative and hateful comments make it seem like a nightmare.

Stanislavski – Naturalism – emotional memory to make it relatable for the audience and to get them to feel involved with the piece

Tempo Rhythm – Using this to show the reactions and the feelings and how different feelings can result in different reactions and how quickly they can change.

“Veil over our eyes”

-          Grieving over something. A loss of some sort

-          Using the veil to hide away, to cover up the badness that you see

Beckett monologue – duality – the secrets that a person holds & the things that they hide away from

I think that Beckett would be a good practitioner to use for this performance idea as there is a lot of words that you can develop and you can take certain adjectives, for example and create phrases and simple sentences, once we have done this we can mash it all together to create a Beckett style monologue.

Again, the audience for this would be 17+ because again it focuses on quite serious, mature topics so you need to be the right age to understand it. The reason this doesn't stop at an age such as 25 because I believe that you need to be at an older age to fully understand the concepts because you can relate it to past experience so the audience feel more involved and the performance will become a lot more effective if the audience can relate to it more. 

I don't feel as though this stimulus and performance idea is suitable because  it would require a lot of time and planning to make it an effective performance and we are more limited for time so I don't feel as though we would be able to make it as effective as we would want it to be.