Sometimes the hardest part of creating a performance is adapting it to the space, which is of course what Site Specific is all about. We’ve worked hard over the last few months to create a piece for our site in Grantham and I thought we had a really good understanding of this module requirement. Unfortunately, we are no longer in our “site”. It’s Site Specific; without the site. Instead we have been moved to the LPAC wherein studios 1, 2 and X have been booked out for our use. Given that there are 4 groups this posed yet another problem. Seeing as my own group had our sights set on a shop theme, we went about contacting the Zing café staff and were fortunate enough to have them allow us a part of their café for several hours of the day. Very lucky indeed.

So after looking around and spending some time in our new location, we realised that this may actually have been a stroke of luck for us. While we had always wanted to portray the idea of a professional and very real company, our original site was lacking in some fundamentals commonly associated with shops; tables, shelves, chairs, any form of television or display screens to name a few. However, the LPAC not only has these at our disposal, it also comes at no extra cost to us. Whilst we only have the café for a limited time due to a previous booking in the evening, we are very grateful to have any space at all and I feel that with the proper aesthetic preparations, we can make the most of this new site.