IDEA TWO - Posters

This uses posters, life size or almost, with an actor/character representing a Shakespearian character. They would be teenagers in modern clothing, such as school uniform, and the posters could be put in the ideal locations to directly reach their audience, such as school corridors or similar hang-outs of 'the young' (as it were).

The idea is that the image on the poster will come to life through projection. An image of the poster image will be projected over the top of the poster character but then continues to come to life, move and act out a scene or monologue inspired by the original language of Shakespeare but modernised.

The projection of the actor is intended to move around the walls outside the poster perimeters because, the poster is a physical object which can't move or change so shouldn't be projected over, and also because the more animation and dynamics the actors can provide, the more it will represent the performance of the theatre and attract the interest of a more demanding younger audience.

I also imagine that there could be two posters located pretty close to each other, with different characters on, from the same play, which can then come alive, and interact with each other, such as Mercucio and Tybalt in the fight scene from Romeo & Juliet. (Mock up image uses girls when it's supposed to be boys! sorry!).

PROBLEMS

- Not sure it displays the full relevance of Shakespeare's work in terms of his human nature apart from the fact that it will be modernised so the audience might understand and relate to it more. Perhaps things like the location of the posters will play a big part, eg. school yards for fight scenes, class room for politics and bullying, 'bike shed' for love meetings.

- Doesn't give a huge feeling of the theatre in the concept and output, appart from possible addressing direct to the audience....?

- Am I over complicating an originally simple concept of just using text!?! Does targeting a teenage audience over complicate things for me???