Time

Time became an extremely important aspect of our piece. After all the piece took place over the space of exactly thirty minutes. Throughout the rehearsal process we began thinking of ways that we could represent time passing. The first indication of time was demonstrated was through the use of the cups. They demonstrated to us as performers that the time was elapsing, as one had to be drunk every twenty seconds. We knew that the piece was drawing to an end by the decreasing amount of water. It was interesting that we finally decided to place the cups on a circular table, this provided connotations of a clock face.

Not only did we choose to use water to demonstrate time passing, but we also placed two projections on the wall behind us, one with a digital clock, and another with an anologue clock. The digital clock remained the same throughout, however the analogue had extra clips inserted into it to demonstrate the passing of time. We asked a friend: “What can you do in thirty minutes” and his reply was as follows: “You can cook ten eggs.” This was the inspiration behind the egg boiling. It was done in order to indicate time passing.

Time governed our piece, it had to be specific. We wanted the piece to start at exactly 7pm, to provide the illusion that this was happening in real time.  Whilst we were implying that all of the statistics are happening all of the time around us, we also wanted to demonstrate that we were magnifying those which happened in the thirty minutes that we performed.