In the re-working of this scene there is intentionally little to do with what makes up the script of Act Three of Top Girls because I am producing a new type of theatre, “In-Your-Face-and-Space”, rather than a performative interpretation. The premise of this type of theatre I have created imagines audience, performer and producer completely equal in the creative process and thus in a democratic space. In a democratic space the audience and performers exercise just as much productive freedom in the discourse as the producer’s script. Imagining Act Three of Top Girls in this way, the role of the script becomes quite peculiar. How might this flashmob theatrical performance be any different than improvisational theatre? To address this concern I would choose to situate the performers as reality-actors that can perform on their own as they wish and even in direct response to audience. Therefore, similar to early Shakespearian theatre, each reality-actor has their role from the script and can choose to employ, expand or deviate from the script. However, “In-Your-Face-and-Space” theatrical performance places the “performers” in the same space as “observers” who can blur the boundaries of audience and perform amongst the reality-actors. Performing amongst the reality-actors, the audience members have not, however, totally transgressed from audience to performer, as they are merely acting in the sense that (again) “all the world is a stage”. The actual place this space might be constructed in would be, like flash mobs, in a public space in which the performers and audience act among each other. While the script supposes the act takes place within a home in such a way that actors come and go both in and out of the home as well as in and out of the home as a whole. I would therefore choose to create a public parallel to the home in a tube station. The tube station would provide the type of space that allows audience and performer a public space in which they might leave the immediate space of the underground station or remove themselves completely by taking the tube to another station and thus another space.

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