So our group has begun work on the idea of Alchemy. Alchemy was something that Newton looked into while he was alive. It is quite simply at it’s heart the search for the philosophers stone, the development of the elixir of life and the attempt to create gold from base metals.
My group was having some difficult times attempting to try and find any form of performance that would have worked in this field of information as it felt like everything we researched just took us back to the idea of making a science class in a shop. Something that would be both un-interesting for an audience, but also un-interesting for us as performers.
Myself and Sarah got together one night to take some pictures using some of the imagery from the more wiccan style of alchemy to get a better grasp on a form of aesthetic so we could continue with. This very simply took the form of fire-lit Gothic make-up with black hairspray, black clothes and a bit of Photoshop to add more Alchemy tables.
Whether or not we continue this kind of aesthetic is unknown to us, but it did help to make our group feel more comfortable with creating something theatrical out of the simple title ‘Alchemy’