Working with the character of the white rabbit from Alice in wonderland I propose to make an interactive outdoor performance making use of urban devises such as public telephones, posters with bar code scanning for mobile phones, shop windows/residential windows and flyering to create a landscape to frame and create an element of suspense around the white rabbit performers. I envisage about 4 performers, all dressed identically as the white rabbit. Each performer highlighting different parts of the caricature of the white rabbit and his obsession of time-keeping and being “late for a very important date.” The live performer/s role would compliment and provide a holding form for all the disparate elements to come together. The performance style would be of interactive physical theatre. The performance would be structured around a trail that ends in a performative/literal falling down a rabbit hole with alarm clocks ringing. This is obviously a very rough outline. The key thing I am interested in is creating a feeling that the audience picks up on and feels through the use of performance, technology and surrounding space to see the space differently.
Last year I saw Generik Vapour’s “Bivouac” at the Out There festival in Great Yarmouth. The way that this company incited such a strong feeling and action amongst the whole crowd I found fascinating. I would love to look at how the work I would make for this project could evoke similar feelings but on a smaller scale.
