The Journey of my Journey

Wow this is hard. Why did I think taking an audience for a walk in the park would be such a walk in the park? I am realising that creating an imersive audience experience with just an mp3 player is a tough challenge.

At first I tried to be clever. I tried to tackle big themes of life and death, love and loss. Imagine an mp3 tour which lectures you about the human condition while you saunter down a leafy path - pretentious or what.

After days of soul searching, historical research and reading I made a crucial breakthrough. This performance is not about me. It's not about my journey or ideas. It's all about you, the 'audience' or participant. So instead of telling I am asking. Guiding my traveler along their own path, with their own unique response to the place in which they find themselves. To help them to do this I will use music and simple questions interspersed with instructions, allowing each journey a different route, emotional response and outcome.

So now the practicalities of timing and clarity come into play. Each part of the journey has to be timed and each instruction must be easy to follow. The real test will be when I let my participants loose. Let's just hope no one gets lost!

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