A-LONE

The performance expresses a sense of solitude from as small as self-awareness to something more complicated as the society of theatre industry, in a creative and abstractly concrete way.

The song which supported the whole practice was directly taken from the live recording of my previous participation in the adaptation of The Secret in the Wings. The mix of noises from the live performance along with the singing with my co-actors from the play bring out the sense of crowdedness and an illusion of the presence of other performers, as a contrast to me being the solo performer on stage. The lines weaving in in the beginning and the middle were from People, Places, and Things, which perfectly touch the gloomy facts and the uncertainty/instability of working in the theatre industry. Last but not least is my own diary of a sense of solitude, describing the doubts for oneself of being away from home and the close ones, being unconfident, which overlapped with the diary I created for Snake Princess to add another layer of different sense and aspect of loneliness in life and to confuse the reality and the fiction, the self and the bigger surroundings.

​

The props and some symbols are given meanings, though there is room for the audience's critical identification for each item:

+ hairstyle/ the change of hairstyle represents different periods of the mindset of the Snake Princess.

+ white fabric/ intangible. but the interesting contrast, perhaps most obviously, is the use of it as a wedding veil, the symbol of unity and joy, and that as a tomb cover, death.
+ chairs/ as in fictional people from Snake Princess's kingdom, including her pursuers, as in the general strangers we encounter every day, as in the fears and limits in life.

​

Messiness in this practice is seen as a representation of thoughts in the human brain and emotions in the human mind, which are uncontrollable.