Chris Goode is a writer, director, performer and sound designer. He has been said to be “one of the most exciting talents working in Britain today” (Chris Goode & Company, 2016). Chris Goode is an ‘alternative theatre’ maker. ‘Alternative theatre’ is a term which was found between the late 1960’s and 70’s describing the loose movement of individuals as well as groups and partners within the opposition of ‘mainstream theatre’. Performances were created around a set of theatrical ideas which opposed this predominantly seen theatrical experience.
Chris Goode is well know for “… make[ing] theatre by creating welcoming spaces and interesting structures for something unexpected to happen in.” (Chris Goode & Company, 2016) Goode’s work allows the audience to think more about the words and movements and the set rather than simply what they are shown straight in front of them, their comfort and security of a theatrical predominance is taken away and instead audience members are allowed to use their own imaginations and react in the necessary form for themselves.
Goode’s main ” … principle aim is to make space for unheard voices.” (Chris Goode & Company, 2016) I wish to do this with the disease Alzheimer’s. I hope to use the ideas of memories and imagination to play on the idea of Alzheimer’s and the instances that are remembered and ones which become broken. I will take this from experience from my Granda. Goode uses conversations he has with ‘ordinary people’ to inform the words he creates for his show, I feel this would be a clever way to show how Alzheimer’s affects the individual as well as their families.
Chris Goode & Company. (2016). Chris Goode – Chris Goode & Company. [online] Available at: http://www.chrisgoodeandcompany.co.uk/team-profile/chris-goode-lead-artist/ [Accessed 12 Apr. 2016].