This clip shows two (of three) separate pieces of performance using the same rough site near the main Caer Llan house
Site 3/Wasteland
Ideas behind the work:
First piece
The site elicited responses about a landscape of spirits and hidden mysteries.
This was then related to the legend of a girl from neighbouring village, Penalt,
who used to escape via her window to play with fairies (Palmer, 1998: 58).
The ideas were consciously influenced by the recent murder of two young girls in
the landscape of Soham, Cambridgeshire. The group played with the site, intent on
a woodland/playground aesthetic.
(CL1: the Caer Llan Sestina)
Second piece
This extract demonstrates an MA group’s engagement with the site; they had seen
it as a forgotten, lost site, its steps leading nowhere now, the original purpose
barely remembered. Discovery of the wasted land (they named it wasteland) and issues
of ownership and blood/battlegrounds also affected their reading of the site. There
were other matters here also; they wished to focus on Aristotle’s six dimensions of
space (above/below, before/behind and right/left (Aristotle, 1993: 208)), that had
been introduced to them, to ‘avoid the traditional notion of performance space’.
(MA student, Thornton.)
(CL3: performing place)
Third piece
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