Tim Crouch’s work is based around a specific idea, he had a “self generated impulse to tell a story or explore a form.” (Timcrouchtheatre.co.uk, 2016)
As I read this about Tim Crouch’s work I automatically thought about my own research into Alzheimer’s. I alone had wanted to explore the Alzheimer’s journey, the path’s that occur in such a story of real life. Tim Crouch always uses his own scripts which I find really amiable as it shows the truth behind his ideas of the subject as well as the research which has gone in to it. It was this idea of telling a story which has helped with what I believe will be the execution of my piece. I wish to perform 4 different pieces at the four destinations. As I go along I will falter with the memories, they will become shorter, parts will be missed out, the idea of forgetting will be made apparent. Lines will be snappier. With this in mind I will also do the same to the destinations and train callings, they will get shorter until the only thing called to the last place is ‘Durham’. No timing’s, no idea of where the train is calling apart from that place and no idea of platform. I never want to mention the word, memory is fine, forgetting is fine but Alzheimer’s I do not want to mention. I believe that the performance itself should allow the audience to understand what this piece is about and why this word never needs to be mentioned.
Timcrouchtheatre.co.uk. (2016). Tim Crouch Theatre. [online] Available at: http://www.timcrouchtheatre.co.uk/ [Accessed 15 Apr. 2016].