In this event, again making use of the same direction and actor, but a different scene being played out, the red cushions were used but not separated by space from the action.
The audience were invited into the room where the cushions were placed in a circle on the floor. Not only did they provide the audience with the unspoken message of where to sit, but they acted as a design element within the way the scene was played out by the actor. Invited to attend the group counseling session, the border between spectator and actor was merged. What the cushions did here was, on one hand, provide a seat for the spectator, but then also forced the spectator to become involved with the action through keeping a level of proximity and intimacy.
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"The third and final of this round of performance tests. This time indoors at Wimbledon College of Art in the ground floor lift lobby behind the theatre foyer."
To me the cushion seemed at there strongest in this last experiment. They helped creating the setting of a group therapy session smoothly without the performer needing to act 'out of character' to inform the audience of how to sit. The performance would simply had been radically different if they had not been there.
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