Discussions today continued to stay on track, very much focussed on the idea of the conversation between a director and an actress. Dimitris started talking about the audience being on a kind of wagonette, which I suppose conjured up the idea of a train, which run on rails, somehow this lead onto to the idea of a camera on a dolly making a tracking shot. We all felt that this was a very strong conceptual idea. A show that was called Tracking shot, and in which the audience moved slowly on a travelling platform or truck along the trajectory of a tracking shot.
April 2, 2010. Pete Brooks' diary
While the cinema was undoubtedly a major factor in determining the direction the project is going, now we have set upon the idea of the audience being placed in a moving auditorium, the architecture of the space has become a major problem. Both the auditorium and the stage are raked. The rake is not steep but as we estimate the loaded auditorium truck will weigh around 1000k any rake is going to be a severe problem. We have decided to look at the possibility of using the Teatro della Luna, which while not as resonant architecturally with the content of the intended piece is physically pretty much ideal, being a large empty circular space about 25 metres in diameter. We performed Carrier Frequency here in 1985. Forced Entertainment were here a few years later with 200% and Bloody Thirsty, itself a kind of urban deconstruction of Carrier Frequency (While Force Ents are undoubtedly post modern to the core, Impact and its members would have styled themselves as late modernists.) an extraordinary number of seminal works have been shown here over the years, so not the worst context in which to make a new show.
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