Project Type
Theatre Performance
Date
2023
Location
Dundee & Angus College
Role
Director
Video Games was another directed and devised piece. However this time I was exploring a Research Question. "Exploring Video Games as a Stimulus for Devising a Theatre Experience".
This performance overall had 29 sound cues, all to which I programmed myself for the 'tech guy' - Paul Gammie at Dundee & Angus College. If you read my biography, you'll know that before my acting studies began I gained a qualification in Computing Science. I've been very familiar with technology and can pick up editing software, sound software etc... very quickly when necessary. I worked alongside a software called QLab to which I programmed all the sound cues beforehand so that all Paul had to do was simply take my usb stick and use it.
The devised experience itself with my actors ran very smoothly. I gave them more wiggle room than what I did previously with my other devised experience, dissociation. Actors would simply be asked to bring in a character related to the world in which this Video Game would take place. After that we would just rearrange a few things and make it make sense.
If you would like to watch the performance, you can below:
Video Games.mp4