What are we waiting for?

Due to my performance developing at speed over the past couple of days, I felt anxious that many things about my performance had changed so drastically that my script needed major alterations. Although the basis of my performance is the same, I now want the focus of the text to revolve around time, life, and how much of our lives we spend waiting. I will address what it is to wait and how time restricts and regulates our everyday lives. Time is crucial to us but is something I feel we take forgranted on a daily basis. It is something that we have to live with and often live by so we therefore accept it – even at times when we could possibly have more control over it than we think.

At the beginning of my performance I will sit, in position, in silence while my audience wait for me to begin. I have not put a time restraint on how long I will sit and wait as I want to experience the awkwardness that I hope my audience will feel in the moment. In doing this, I hope that the audience will later question what it is to wait and feel the essence of time within this.

I will play with repetition in my performance to create the effect of going back in time. I will do this with both movements and text but will approach this in a way that I hope will not irritate the audience but make them realise that time is being played with.

I believe that in many situations, both good and bad, that the worst time is having to wait and this is something I hope to play with through my performance.