Pirate Ship!

Regard the Pirate Ship/Memory Loci!

As created by The Strange Names Collective's - Master Ship Builder - Les.

Finishing touches are being added, we need a name...

Costume

I have two divergent directions to consider:

Or...

Hmmm...

What do you do with a completed/redundant text?

At the end of the the 12 hours the text produced by the performers over will be completed as a result of time running out. Question: what should we do with a text which, at the moment of completion has already achieved its performance, has become redundant as a script?

Recent gift/Mascot/Pirate Ship near completion

I received this gift on Sunday from our ship builder Les, I believe that this fellow should become our mascot:




The ship is very near completion, just a few decisions regarding crossbeams on the masts and the bowsprit.

We will need a name for the ship...

Some thoughts relevant to this performance:

Open a context.
Gather the entire world in the work.
Make work without guarantee of return.
Exhaust the possibilities of a single note.

What is this show about?

Some initial thoughts:

Practically: Invention, memory, and forgetting.
Conceptually: Oral history and the written word.
Thematically: Amnesia, dementia, decay, and aging.

A Ship...

During the creation of a performance, some former students of mine would joke that they had not yet completed the scene in which a Pirate Ship would arrive on stage. This scene would have no bearing on the performance they were actually making.

However, a Pirate ship is actually being constructed for the performance, to act as a Mnemonic Loci.

Phil.