Acid Tests | Surrealism | Developing Artaud

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Acid Test Response To Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

 An acid tests show scorched moments of a performance. I decided to have my acid test in the shape of a circle to represent the face which was always projected onto the back of the stage to show how Christopher was feeling.
  • Train track- I decided to draw a traintrack with a train going round as this was key in the performance. Christopher was continuously trying to build the traintrack which then represented him travelling to London to find his mum.
  • Paddington sign- this makes me remember the scene where Christopher overcame his anxiety in the train station and overcame his fear. It also reminds me of when the wall moved forward to show how Christopher felt he was going to fall into the tracks.
  • Animals- the use of live animals on stage created a happy emotion. Christopher felt like his rat Toby was his only friend and took him everywhere. At the end he is given a puppy which he finds an attachment to too.
  • Letters- this shows the turning point in the performance when he finds the letters from his mum and realises she is not dead. To show the amount of letters he found they fell onto him and other actors held letters all around him.
  • Hand signal- this shows something very precious to Christopher. This hand signal made him feel at ease and showed his trust. It is also his his parents told him everything was going to be okay.
I was given this painting produced by Magritte and I had to write down absolutely everything that popped into my head no matter how stupid it sounded. The things I thought of were;
  • calm before the storm
  • nature
  • mysterious
  • endless thinking 
  • sweet but sour
This painting is a clear example of Surrealism. There are two types of Surrealism;
  1. Automatism/Free Association 
  1. Oneiric/Dream Like
We allowed our new found knowledge of surrealism to develop our Artaud inspired work.
  • words should be used in different ways due to their sound qualities
  • you shouldn't just see things for how it is"ceci n'est pas une pipe"
  • words can be supercharged and exaggurated to have more than just one meaning
  • we physically trap the audience in cloth to show they're trapped in their dreams when they're asleep
  • doors opening and closing relate to the many choices we can make in life
  • the significance of the blindfold is related to the fact people are blind to their future
We then went on to talk about Brecht;
  • his pieces were not for entertainment but to provoke political change through thought
  • he tried to make the familiar unfamiliar by seeing past the obvious 

Working With Dreams to Develop Our Work Everyone in the group had a task of telling their nightmare to another person while that other person scribed down everything they said. We then got back together and shared everyone's nightmares.
  1. Meera; Being chased down a long corridor with lots of doors and then finally falling down a black hole.
  1. Mine; With lots of friends watching a football match and then deciding to go into the pool. Suddenly everything goes black and you can only see the red colour of paramedics going into a house. Everything falls silent and then lots of dead bodies are wheeled out.
  1. Harry; Having a flying lesson when suddenly the lights of the city go off and then the plane fails. There are then flashes of the ground getting closer and closer. 
  1. Emma; In an aeroplane with her family when it crashes. She swims to shore and sees her brother and mum but her mum doesn't remember her.
We decided that we would create a train and bring an audience member onto the train with us to experience each persons nightmare when they fall asleep on the train. We created a train using soundscape.

Meeras Nightmare;We blindfold the audience member to rob them of a sense which makes them feel vulnerable. We then surround them while whispering uncomfortable words into their ear. This whispering gradually builds up into a shout of the word "run". This makes the audience member disorientated and scared. We then fall into a silence which will make the audience member confused and onedge. The actors then wrap up the audience member in a big cloth to give them a sense of being trapped in this dream. I then run up to the audience member and push them back while the other three actors catch them. This shows the falling in the nightmare. We then remove the blindfold and allow the audience member to return to the audience.

Harrys Nightmare;The audience members will sit together in rows of two like in an airplane. The actors then create a sense of the plane taking off by live soundscape. Recordings of the pilot speaking to the control centre then come on while the actors build a plane around the audience with sugar paper and fairy lights.











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