Chris Goode

Our last task in lesson was to a presentation on a practitioner, as I have already looked at an  autobiographical piece and know of performance art, i thought it would be a good idea to look at a piece which uses a scripted play. I chose to look at Chris Goode and his written play The Adventures of Wound man and Shirley. The play simply tells the story of an unconventional friendship between the abnormal super hero, wound-man, and his new found friend, Shirley. When performing this piece Goode uses a box of props which he uses as and when he needs them. I like this particular idea as nothing is given away before it happens as all props are concealed an hidden. He also uses several soundtracks throughout composed by himself to help the story progress or avoid awkward moments and silences. The use of props i particularly like and would consider manipulating in my own way to use a similar idea in my piece.