“The word ‘text’, before referring to a written or spoken, printed or manuscripted text, meant ‘a weaving together” ((Barba, Eugenio (2006[1991] ‘Actions at work’ in B. Eugenio (2nd ed.) A dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The secret Art of the Performer, London and New York: Routledge. p. 66))
Our performance weaves together many different elements in order to show the connectivity of our journey including audience and performance. It begins in a betting shop where someone: maybe someone with an addiction or a first time better, picks up a betting slip and places their bet. Some of the slips will have been winners however the majority will lose because that is the way the games are designed. We have acquired some of these betting slips as they have already been taken on this journey and been held by many different people. This interconnectivity weaves into our performance as we took the betting slips and wrote the future ideas for the Grand Stand on them. These ideas had been on a journey of their own as they were given to us by members of the public and then taken to the Grand Stand. Remaining betting slips were kept for our performances so the audience could make an informed choice as to what they felt it should or could become. One audience member I spoke to felt that it should become a
“Drive-in cinema. This is because I thought the site was nice and open plan and in a good place (in terms of being just outside central town) for the noise of a drive-in cinema.” ((Watson, Cassandra. 2013. Reaction to ‘Safe Bet’. Interviewed by Charlotte Restall. [written] University of Lincoln Library, 12 May 2013.))
So some of the audience were informed by our performance choosing things like:
Some of these suggestions were interlinked with the site on a different level whereas others wanted to adapt the site so that it would become something new.
Lone Twin created a response to a recent freak tornado where “the performers carried a pole as the crow flies between two buildings which took them through Colchester town centre” ((Govan, Emma, Nicholson, H. and Normington, K., (2007) Making a Performance Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices, London and New York: Routledge. P. 123)). We want to recreate the idea that Lone Twin had with this performance: Totem (2005). We took twine through the city, after the performance, to interact with members of the public and collect ideas for what they think the grandstand should or could become in the future. We were able to discuss our project with them to collect more ideas in a post-show discussion. Many members of the public interacted with us as they wondered what we were doing. We were able to explain how we recreated the demolished stands, brought back the voice of the remaining stand and that this, currently, was us bringing the future of the Grand Stand back to the public. “Events that project themselves on the city… are part of the experience of the city”. ((Wodiczko, Krzysztof quoted in Kaye, Nick (2003[2001]) Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation, London and New York: Routledge. p. 37)) Some people added suggestions to add to our growing list whilst other simply browsed what was already proposed. The performance is an on-going process as we will be presenting our findings to the Lincolnshire Archives.
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