THE ONE SHOW, 2016
KEY QUOTES FROM INTERVIEW:
"She was opposite the bay window where I worked so I saw everything that went on"
-what curious activities could Miss S be getting on with? How might Alan be inspired by Miss S? How does Miss S distract Alan?
"She was very strong willed, she knew she was going to stay and she did stay"
- sense of stubborn character, how might the audience know something about Miss S that Alan doesn't?
"I would write it down, anything funny that happened"
-How could I exaggerate the mischief of Miss S?
"She used to irritate me to a great degree, she was a real pain"
-Sense of resentment and satire around the relationship?
"Observations of the quirks and strangenesses of people"
-How eccentric was Miss S? What quirks can be illustrated to reveal the whole?
NATIONAL THEATRE, 2015
"I was keeping an eye on her. It was interfering with my work"
-Sense of voyeurism, prying, pre-occupation
"I found out I was watching out for the blackbirds in the same was I was watching out for Miss Shepherd"
-Is Miss S part of the furniture? Does Alan become a carer figure? Pleasantly intrigued by her?
The main observations I have drawn from these two interviews is the role of Miss Shepherd as a sort of nuisance and distraction in Alan's life, yet one that it full of interest and intrigue, forcing Alan and Miss S to enter in a relationship of mutual wondering and voyeurism. I may look to explore this sense of observation and wondering within my initial sketches, considering how the relationship is informed by observations about one another's ways of being.
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