https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPWohyPi304&feature=youtu.be

9.Make the private public. Perform what you normally do indoors outdoors. 

I feel this instruction has been an influence to what I want to create in my performance. The fact I’m using a very personal experience and sharing it with an audience is liberation from my privacy and therefore making it public. (Larvey, 2005)

Additionally I feel my performance has been influenced by Forced Entertainment’s Nights in this City (1995) ‘who avoided facts in search of a different truth’ (ibid, 1999, 80), to discard Sheffield’s history and tell their own. I found that this linked a lot to my idea of portraying a location that people believe they know so well into something it’s not. Fact is the tunnel is just simply a tunnel, a passage way people travel through to get to and from the highstreet. but the truth? My truth is very different and although not fact, it is not false. i have a personal expeirence of this space, as explained in a previous blog.

 The concept of turning the tunnel into what I view it as instead of what others view it as is not dissimilar to Etchells exploration of relationship between adults and children, That Night Follows Day (2007) in the sense that they would never consider what the child to say as ‘truth’ just as the child may not understand and adults interpretation. It would be interesting to see if adults and children had diverse connotations of my location, the tunnel.