Theatre of Cruelty- Mints

Lesson: Wednesday 13th November

The mints for “Eternal Happiness”

Tictacs will be used for the final performance (decided by Juliana and Daniel: Head of set) as they look like candy, not associated with medicine and are easy to attract people. Furthermore if they are called a mint they seem more approachable. However, vials was another option suggested by Katy as they “can be thrown to the floor and may look more dramatic for the audience, it is the proof being empty that something has been taken”. 

Image of my idea of Sigils, after going home and thinking about how to approach it! - Small= small doses.However look essential and even magical by the bottles.

Talking to Katy I thought of the idea of medicine, and that the medicine should be given by Lloyd from one same bottle, to show the unity of the person, how we all need the same thing in order to be happy- there are no individual differences and one same spoon could be used.

Nonetheless, as the props head I had to take into consideration safety issues in the theatre, and vials could break leading to injuries in the case of being stepped upon. Also there are health concerns with the sharing of a spoon, so we went back to the idea of mints, decided by a group consultation. From here, I created 2 little containers made of hard plastic, with the sigils so that Jul’s and Daniel can both take them around and give them out to the members without having to through them offstage if there are any left.