Scriptwriting
Recently I aimed to focus on writing my script for my performance, which I have now completed, though I feel as though some aspects may change during my rehearsal process. I have stuck with my recent ideas of putting a new spin on an old folktale, especially looking at the ownership of stories and how tales are affected by the narrator, which I explore in my performance. This is also explored by the critic Breece D.J. Pancake, in his "oral narrative / folklore essay", which looks at how similar story structures, archetypal characters and themes are found within folktales globally. He argues that it is the storys narrator that alters it, which is why I am narrating my performance from the perspective of the sea, rather than the tale's original narrator. This modification of tales to fit different societies with different current affairs is explained in Emily Lyle's "Narrative Form and the Structure of Myth", in which she also discusses the impacts of narration upon a story.
I have also been considering my technical requirements. I intend to use many small props in unusual ways, as though to symbolise something else. For example, fairy-lights I will use for the lights of a kingdom and a bowl of water for waves. I have also been reading Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The City In The Sea" which explores many of the same themes as my performance.
- Pancake, B. D. "Oral Narrative / Folklore Essay." Appalachian Heritage, vol. 40 no. 3, 2012, pp. 52-56. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/aph.2012.0084
- Lyle, Emily. "Narrative Form and the Structure of Myth", https://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol33/lyle.pdf
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The City In The Sea", https://www.poemhunter.com/poems/sea/
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