Promenade Bit

To start off our piece, the audience are picked up in the foyer by Harrison aka Alfred Prufrock and they walk into the other building, through the corridor, past the lockers, up the stairs through that upstairs corridor, walk back down those stairs on the other side and into the space where they are met by Amaya and Phoebe for the speed dating bit.

Anyway, the promenade bit. Like I said, the audience do a bit of walking around before they go into the space but the first corridor has windows all down one side of the wall and the ceiling, it reminds me of a greenhouse. On the other side of those windows are me, Tiff, Tian, Phoebe, Gavin and Alex and we are trying to tell the audience that we love them. The problem is that the windows create a physical and auditory barrier so we have to tell them we love them in a different way whether that be signing it or breathing on the window and writing it with our fingers or mouthing it. Anything we want, just get the message across to them.
I think this is useful for our piece because we are exploring the inability to say your feelings for someone, but it's more verbal than literal. In they outside bit we literally can't say "I love you" because they would be like "what? " and then we'd say it again and they'd be like "yeah I still can't hear you..." and it would continue. I haven't seen what our bit looks like from inside but I'm guessing it's interesting and slightly funny because when it was just us outside, people would walk past and do a double take when they saw us because nobody goes on the other side of those windows. Plus our bodies are hidden. We are literally heads and necks. Like Paul the  Head Waiter (literally) from Corpse Bride.

We did have a few problems with this bit though. When we tried to get to the windows, we were faced with the plants which ranged from holly leaves to big leaves that dripped water down your neck to little stumps that hurt. Also, these plants were blocking us from getting to windows. There are six windows but some are harder to get to that others. So we might have snapped off a few massive leaves for our own convenience. As for those spiky holly leaves, we learnt how to dodge them. Also, the windows have webs on them and the texture of webs drives me insane so I need to avoid touching them because if I do touch them, my emotions go straight to my face. I can't be loving the audience one second and disgusted the next.

When the audience can no longer see us, we run into the building but slow down near the lockers or we'll attract attention.