RESEARCH - DEPERSONALISATION
Because the mental health condition of Depersonalisation has been an influence for me in how I'm presenting my piece, and it's not something I regularly experience as a part of my mental health, I wanted to do a bit of further research on the condition as to not misrepresent it in how I talk about my piece in different contexts.
The epidemiology of depersonalisation and derealisation: A systematic review
This definition of depersonalisation gives a good understanding of the experience and sensations that come with the condition. This idea of detachment from the self is something I want to explore in the work's staging to the audience. By creating a work in a black box theatre, I want to create the sensation of observing the duality of the self from a distance for the audience and take the audience out of reality outside of the theatre. I further want to create an atmosphere of unreality through the tech of the piece, using gobos and haze to set the stage in a dream-like state to further this.
NHS: Dissociative Disorders
As I don't personally live with depersonalisation or derealisation as a regular factor in my mental health, I don't want to make a piece directly about the experiences of the condition, as I wouldn't be able to do that accurately. I have experienced the sensation momentarily before as the NHS describes above, similar to how someone may experience deja vu, but not enough to claim any derivative of personal experience. Instead, I was inspired by the idea of observing the self as an entity from the outside as a vehicle for depicting the theme of duality.
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