VISUAL
Costumes
We wanted to transform ourselves from quotidian 'business people' at the opening of the performance into three witty, comic and quite bouffony creatures existing in a scifi world that takes place in 2256, quite detached from human reality. Therefore we wanted to have a futuristic and genderless look.
One of our inspirations was Red Bastard’s red catsuit that deforms his whole body and changes his movement and the way people relate to him. That gave us the idea that our costumes should also affect our movement and help to find our creatures personality. After experimenting with different colours chose silver all-in-one suits, with silver lipstick.
Red Bastard, an inspiration
Set
In the narrative we created two different worlds - that of a 'time-management training session' and the futuristic world of the Timestealers. We had to find a solution for how we can transform one into another with limited time and resources for the changeover.
We decided we were able to enact this change largely through aural scenography, and so gave dominance to the headspace and sound to take the audience to different spaces. Therefore we kept the set simple with few objects on the table and so our costume and an LED wire signalled the transformation into the future. We were lucky enough to find an underground venue equipped with a large table and lava lamps.
This time we decided to use the female binaural head we made during the development of One Moment. Thea head wore the binaural microphones that transmitted the our live sound to the audience's headphones.
Objects
We filtered our objects in rehearsals according to their sound and function in societies. We wanted to find objects that are representing productivity and ones representing procrastination or 'non-productive' ways of using time, such as play. We experimented with the following toolbox: balloons, crisps, nuts, coke, popping candy, strows, brush, cream, biscuits, mobile phones, magazines, bubble wrap, pens and paper.