Based loosely on an interpretation of the painting by Kevin Sinnott

Based loosely on an interpretation of the painting by Kevin Sinnott

called “Running Away with the Hairdresser”. The performance was based

on the idea of running towards, and reaching,

Earthfall Drama Essay

During the week spent in the Earthfall residency, we produced a

performance based loosely on an interpretation of the painting by

Kevin Sinnott called “Running Away with the Hairdresser”. The

performance was based on the idea of running towards, and reaching,

your dreams and ideas for a perfect life.

Kevin Sinnott’s work is largely based on emotions and human

relationships; he deals with personal experiences and expresses them

through his artwork. Each of his paintings has an individual theme

which enables viewers of his piece to come up with their own

understanding of how it relates to their personal emotions. The

painting, “Running Away with the Hairdresser”, has two themes both

running away with the hairdresser and leaving the past behind. We

incorporated both these themes into our performance through two

different physical portrayals, firstly the hairdressing motif and

running away scene. These are the scenes which reveal and visualise

the true understanding of the themes and morals of the performances.

This performance was centred around the art of dance and physical

movement. These techniques were linked into our performance by

Earthfall from different artists. We used skills from the company DV8

who base themselves on physical theatre portraying a particular

emotion. These provided the stimulation for the main running away

section, adding a lively and contemporary twist, which the audience

could take in and develop individual interpretations for the reasons

behind running away. Thus proving, like DV8, the idea that there is no

official meaning of the performance. The use of physical movement and

gestures also reflected more meaning on the audience, and not only

that, allowed them the ability to experience others personal outlooks

on their reasons behind running away and what they would like to

achieve from doing so. The ideas also inspired the dream sequence

within are performance, as like DV8, this piece of theatre was formed

on radical and eccentric personal ideas. However it was worked within

our routine so that it fitted comfortably in with the themes and

morals.

Earthfall’s work is concerned with seeking a personal honesty, passion

and economy in physical performance to produce quality work of depth,

they used this idea to motivate us and encourage us to come up with

our own ideas from personal experiences and dreams. They then used

these to create a performance relevant to us pupils, through the use

of monologues which allowed us a chance to express ourselves and also