#sredni

For the performance project we are doing a play called “sredni vashtar”, which is a play about a boy who has a overprotective cousin that he loathes, but finds solace with a ferret in a hutch that he keeps in the shed of the house, who he treats like a god. he prays for this ferret implicitly to kill his cousin,and he does so. This was a whole year project, and we allocated roles to ourselves to all play a part in the plays production. I initially started off in costume and set design, but then moved to visuals, after me and yassmine decided to collab on projections and shadow puppets for the show. we re read the script and tried to imagine which sections would require visual projections, such as voodoo dolls for the ritual scenes and a hurting tooth for mrs duropps toothache scene. We looked at animations and short films of the story shown below,for inspiration and to understand the mood of the story better. As everyone was trying to make content at the same time it was difficult to keep track of everyones ideas and sync them up, but after a few meetings me and yass decided to focus on doing the toothache visuals as well as the shadow puppet of shredni vashtar the ferret.

Links to video inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S1Pwra7r2g