A Yellow Memoir
Battersea Arts Centre
Speculative design concept art
A yellow memoir is a speculative design inspired by the story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper is a powerful and visual story about a woman who suffers a mental breakdown being confined to one room in a house. This show that takes threads from the story and presents to the viewer a sequence of performances that subtly hint at the narrative.
Lead into the house under the pretence of viewing it for rent, the audience is taken through each room that houses a certain memory that the owner has with it, which they see come to life in front of them. Primarily a physical theatre experience, they are guided through these different rooms to see glimpses of a story that lives on through time.