Zoë A draft assemblage of components gathered so far.
Assuming the costumes are being worn throughout
| Assemblage Name Scene | Scene description | SOUND | PROJECTION | TABLE position |
| Preshow Assemblage of Hard Hats trail And Board Projected image on back curtain and on board | Hard Hats across front of stage suggest a queue of workers heading to the mine, the factory . . . The Table suggests a door, a board, a notice board? A sounding board? Sound lighting projection begin the show | Yes | yes | Table as wall or door is standing stage L upright |
| The world resigns 3 women represent the world Defeated? Listening to the non- human | Text, spoken live? And or pre-recorded Nest, Cloud and Mushroom tightly together standing on top of a hard hat each | Disembodied text Layered I’m resigning text Sound underneath continues from pre-show? | Something like Deb’s green screen experiment What if each of us does this in solo in front of a green screen? Wear a green neck piece become bodyless? Experiments in process | “ |
| Solistalgia | Nest Cloud Mushroom stand holding a hard hat a stillness Acronym Text spoken live? | Dropping hard hats Prerecord hard hats hitting the floor | Acronyms projected? Snail and acronyms? | |
| Flocking | Nest Cloud and Mushroom move around the space looking for…? looking at…? Sensing the atmosphere pattern may respond to audience affect | Acronyms spoken | Shadows of humans flocking? |
The above scenes potentially merge more than they each have beg. middle and end.
| “We are not the same” Each symbiont introduced in relationship with the board / table new materialism? Is this about finding territory? Surfaces? | Mushroom rolls/ animates table Mushroom beneath table, connects beneath it Nest sits in angular configurations between floor and on table, Cloud stands on table, | Rhubarb Peace Lily | Coloured Water drops | Table moves across the space rolling over It is manipulated by Mushroom from beneath |
| Broiling Storm | Rolling walk Cloud and mushroom Nest perched on hard hat? | Beaut – Intense | White lines (hint) | On the table as a table |
The above 2 scenes merge /morph
| ROAR A rupture A burst of emotion | Spenser’s movement sequence and or? | Alex’s RoaR poem? | ||
| Unstable Terrain | Walking on Hats | Bottle sorting | ||
| Mollusc & text | Mushroom with hard hats and text ethical fungi / | Text ethical fungi Or race call fungi | White lines | Table as backdrop |
The above 3 scenes merge / morph
| Corporate intervention This is a hard change of style / disruption intervention Disregard | Clearing the space of hats | Live sound of hard hats being collected dropped Meeting text introduced? t.b.c. | ||
| Storming the Nest | Nest and Cloud in whirlwind, at sea, | Wind Turbine | Watery surfaces | |
| We are all in this together (But we are not the same) | Nest mushroom Cloud tumble floor-based weaving and crossing other | ‘Rhubarb Peace Lily’ | Watery surfaces |
| Corporate intervention This is a hard change of style / disruption intervention Disregard | Clearing the space of hats | Real sound of hard hats being collected dropped Meeting text introduced? | ||
| Storming the Nest | Nest and Cloud in whirlwind, at sea, | Wind Turbine | Watery surfaces | |
| We are all in this together (But we are not the same) | Nest mushroom Cloud tumble floor-based weaving and crossing other | ‘Rhubarb Peace Lily’ | Watery surfaces |
The above 2 scenes merge /morph
| AGM The meeting | Mushroom nest and cloud try the human method of not solving a problem | Wind turbine with pigeons flapping | Table is centre perpendicular to audience | |
| Scratch Seeking comfort but building in tension and suspense | Nest begins scratching, Is supported by Cloud and Mushroom Table is rolled and climbed and . . . | Winnowing tea | ||
| Roar | Gina’s roar | |||
| Reterritorialise the table | Nest and Mushroom take the table | Spenser’s gasp text recorded | Table is a placed parallel to audience maybe diagonal | |
| Fungi Race | Mushroom balanced on head in Clouds hands | Spoken or recorded text Sharon’s race call of species at risk | ||
| Cloud breathing | Acro with table Cloud surfs up Nest over to mushroom and down | Coyote Devices | Table is vertical | |
| Pressure systems | Double surf up | Possibly on the table | ||
| Dog | Dog Games | Table is moved around the space in relationship to Sharon Mushroom as Dog | ||
| Roar | Gina’s roar | |||
| Slow urgency The future is intergenerational solidarity | Table tumble | |||
| Final Roar |
In the Middle of Zoë 