As previously mentioned my group have been performing material to the rest of our class and receiving feedback. After our most recent feedback session, we realised we needed to re-think some of our ideas. Although what we had been devising was engaging to the audience and involved our theme of science, we came to understand that we were acting. ‘Rarely does site-specific performance focus solely upon, or proceed at the pace of, that form of dramatic dialogue in which characters talk face-to-face, exchange information and their feelings about things, and constantly refer to events off-stage, elsewhere, in the real world.’ (Pearson, 2010, 167) The whole point of site specific performance is to perform, not act. This can be done by completing tasks, reading aloud or simply just observing. It is crucial for us to understand that performance happens all of the time in everyday life before thinking about the performance itself. I think that we got carried away with our ideas and forgot this main principle and it resulted in an over complicated piece of theatre which was not completely obeying the rules of site specific performance.

After a group discussion, we decided to go back to our original ideas of using certain materials such as prisms, microphones, projection and video in a simple way, completing science based tasks. The main focus of our piece was originally light and what Newton’s discovery was therefore inspiring us to use prisms in the performance. To layer this we then brought in the idea of sound and the science behind it into the performance. Another way of layering the performance was our use of various elements of technology. ‘In a stratigraphic model of dramaturgy, site-specific performance is envisaged and executed as distinct strata or layers.’ (Pearson, 2010, 167) When showing sound we had the basic idea of projecting sound waves onto the wall showing how sound travels. We then added a microphone to the performance which interacted with the sound waves, showing the different dynamics and frequencies to the sounds we were making. The final part to this was to add text rather than unrelated noises. This was an original Newton text which described his discoveries whilst we attempted to show these around the space with the science based tasks. The more layers there are to a performance, the more the audience have to discover. Some audience members may relate to the projection more whilst others may understand more from the text. This is giving the audience more of an understanding of the piece in an inventive way without making it too obvious.