"The Shizzle" Theatre company

As a member of "The Shizzle" Theatre company along with my colleagues, Nairac Peters, Ella Lucia Clark Cowan, Angelica Heath and Sophia Donnelly we decided to base our Site Specific performance piece around the themes of "tragedy" and the events that cause a situation to become "tragic" in society. As a group, we discussed elements of "tragedy" and the build up to a "tragic circumstance" and wanted to, through our performance piece, embody "entrapment" and "closure" for which we associated with "tragedy" and "loss". The space for which we wanted to devise from, therefore had to be small in size and claustrophobic in nature in order for our piece to work. For our original idea, we wanted to explore points in history for which we associated as "tragic" for example the holocaust and slavery to the July 7th bombings in London. However, after working with these stimuli for a number of devising sessions, we decided to change the theme of embracing "tragic" points in history through a train, to instead showing how "claustrophobia", "nausea" and "panic" could be exemplified through "small", "disturbing" and "narrow" spaces, within this context being a train. In order to successfully put forward this idea, we would have to acknowledge every "property" and "quality" of our Site in order to use the full capabilities and performance opportunities of the space.