Thoughts From UK Team

Aims

-To tell our stories (ours and the Malaysian groups)
-To tell universal stories
-To engage our audience
-To share
-To represent us; who we are, who the Malaysian group are and both our societies
-To be political and argue
-To challenge tradition in terms of both form and content
-To shock

Themes

-Nostalgia, memories
-Ceremony, ritual, festivals
-Family, inheritance, convention, tradition
-Commercialism
-Sharing, confessing
-Concealment, hidden lives, strangers
-Communication (the way we create meaning and how easily misinterpretations are formed)
-Community
-Religion
-Defiance
-Contained rebellion
-Riots, war
-Identity, individuality
-Choices, responsibilities
-Change, progress
-Nature

Form

-Montage
-Improvisation
-Passing on, inheriting information
-Sharing
-Interactive
-Storytelling
-Promenade
-Installation
-Absurdist
-Abstract
-Conceptual
-The piece itself takes the form of the box
-Experiential
-Repetition (scenes played out numerous times but slightly altered each time)
-Take one audience member at a time on an individual journey
-Do not be limited to the studio
-Image based, physical, non-narrative
-Utilize smell, sound, taste to a greater degree than traditionally used
-Fast paced; bombardment
-Including different languages