ABSENT
Tristan Sharps and dreamthinkspeak today announce the opening of their new piece ABSENT which will be staged at Shoreditch Town Hall from 24th August to the 25th October.
An intimate promenade installation inspired by The Duchess of Argyll's residence at a central London hotel in the 1970's.
A young woman enters a hotel. She is magnetic and compelling, yet strangely detached, as if in a dream. She books for one night and remains for a lifetime; she's happy and optimistic, yet unfathomably sad; she is wealthy and ostentatious, but bankrupt and survives on credit; she is beautiful, yet ugly; she has many lovers but loves no one; she is 18 years old - or is she 80?
The Duchess of Argyll booked into a central London hotel in 1978 and was ejected several years later, having finally run out of friends and credit. In ABSENT, she is surreally re-imagined entering a hotel as an optimistic 18 year-old in the 1950's and being evicted in the present day, into a modernised and radically changed world.
ABSENT will create an intimate journey for audiences through the maze-like basement of Shoreditch Town Hall, mixing film and architectural installation with a haunting soundtrack. As you thread your way through the labyrinthine passageways, you become enmeshed in a constantly shifting dreamscape in which the past, present and future of both the protagonist and the hotel become inextricably linked.
Margaret of Argyll, born Ethel Margaret Whigham was a well-known socialite, whose colourful public image made her a tabloid target in the middle of the last century.
All above information is directly from: http://shoreditchtownhall.com/unique-venue/news/article/shoreditchtownhallabsent
The piece itself was immersive however, there was only one actress throughout the entire production and stationed marshals incase anyone wanted to leave the scenes. There was one scene in which there was any form of performance watching, the other rooms and corridors contained film on repeat or ripped letter and torn up piece of paper.
Research
As a part of our independent research, we were required to look at sources that would help us think of storyline ideas and character roles. Watching The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 5 gave us an insight of what we could create within our store to infer and explain a 'hide out - safe haven'.
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