Tunnel Picture Stimulus (PMD1)

- Having a literal tunnel vision - acting like we only see what's in our direct view

- Hidden meaning - hiding behind/away from something

- Closing in on one character - Tormenting

Being trapped - only seeing your own view, having to make a decision, choosing the right tunnel, having something stop you or get it your way that influences your decision

- use of body percussion and instrumentation within the performance that represents slamming against the walls for example.

I think Artaud would be a good practitioner to use for this performance idea as you could focus on the idea of being 'trapped' and you could implement the idea of using uncomfortable movement to make the audience feel trapped. We could take the idea of closing in on one character and we could have the audience participating by being in the centre of the performance, this would enhance on the idea of them being trapped as they will feel compressed and enclosed in the space.

For this performance idea I think the age range should be for secondary school children, because it isn't a serious, conflict topic that requires a older audience to understand. Not only this we could add an educational aspect to the performance if we decided to go down the being trapped idea because we can use elements of the types of pressure you face when making a tough decision and we'd be able to make the performance effective because the audience would be able to relate to what we are communicating to the audience.

I don't think this stimulus or performance idea would be suitable for our performance because for an idea such as closing in on one character, it would be hard to come up with performance ideas because the focus would be on one character so therefore it would be hard to come up with performance ideas for the rest of the cast.