MISSING LIVE THEATRE: RATTRAY HEAD LIGHTHOUSE
Third Year, First Semester (2020)
Missing Live Theatre was a brief created to inspire a re-imagination of outdoor spaces for performance purposes during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Rattray Head Lighthouse, off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland, stood out to me as a wonderful starting point due to the structure's isolated nature.
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By exploring the emotional consequences of lockdown and drawing on themes of isolation, loneliness and communication, I created a narrative and six characters, along with their costume designs, based on the lighthouse.
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Inspiration ranged from 20th century fishermen, semaphore flags, 1920s bathing suits and the colours of rust.
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The final outcome was a transformative costume designed for the character of "The Sea", with the intention of showing the changing tides and thus symbolising the ever-changing nature of life.
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