After the introductory speech, all aircrew (audience members) must be given a debrief by me . Originally this was going to be delivered outside , along the wall next to the Penny For Your Thoughts display and original landing pad. However, this wasn’t very realistic judging the scenario so the debrief will be held inside. I next pondered for a while of where I could find a template speech . I scoured the RAF archives website , but finding only speeches delivered in ceremonies or as after dinner modern speeches , decided to look elsewhere. I , next, dipped into films of that era , including Battle of Britain, Dambusters and An Appointment In London.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAPOpPqA7M8 (You tube Video Of An Appiontment In London Movie)
These were all concerned with the air missions of this period. An Appointment In London, in particular, includes a briefing scene which could connect well to this promenade performance The audience will be able to visualise , in my piece, “What media are employed?” and How might different orders of material be attributed to different voices or media?” ((Pearson, 2011)).
During the introduction we informed the audience that they would be testing aircraft.I therefore researched books based on the RAF . This drew me to my then participation in Dambusters 70 : After Me The Flood , a piece commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Dambusters raids and to Max Arthur’s Damubsters. Wing Commander Guy Gibson, who assembled 617 squadron to blow up the dams , trained them on aircraft at Scampton in Lincolnshire Dambusters reveals exactly what he said to the crew before they began their training, this is consequently what I will replicate. This speech begins “your’e here to do a special job” and ends on “Discipline is absolutely essential” ((Arthur, 2009, p25)).
I didn’t want to imitate the speech so broke this down to the topics discussed. I then recorded my views and compiled my script from these. I will debrief the audience after the introduction .
Research Into Models Of Royal Air Force Aircraft In World War II, Lincolnshire Aircraft Manufacturers Of RAF Aircraft And Royal Air Force History
A final decision I have come to make is to leave the planes blank. Without any design they appear lifeless , akin to the fact that those that flew the planes died. As my ideas developed I have also decided to hand out paper for the audience to make their own aeroplanes during the debrief . Firstly I will demonstrate this and they will copy. The audience therefore feel that the plane is more personal to them also they are participating in the activities rather than just watching. They appear “‘to consciously look at continuities or continuities that are being made’,again evoking the notion of dramaturgy as always in process, always emerging in relation to its context” ((Turner, 2010, p151)).
Works Cited
Arthur, Max (2009) Dambusters, Virgin, London
Pearson, Mike (2011) Some Exercises In Perfomrance Composition , Online: http://blackboard.lincoln.ac.uk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?
(accessed 26th April 2013).
Tunrner, Cathy (2010) ” Dramatrugy and Architecture” on Mis-Guidance and Spatial Planning: Dramaturgies of Public Space’ Contemporary Theatre Review
, Vol. 20(2), 149–161.