Lost in Heavy Rain Performance

"Lost in Heavy Rain" was the second performance by DMU students, which focused on post-dramatic performance and its characteristics. It makes numerous references to "The Sound of Heavy Rain", having scenes that represents different emotions, whilst including new scenes created by the students. Love and betrayal are two examples of these "new scenes".

Producing the play revolved around a simple process. The idea was to split into small groups, identifying various features that represented each character (from the Sound of Heavy Rain) and extract them. Other scenes emphasised the power of "being a certain identity", for example a man, explaining the benefits of such in a humorous light. It also pointed out negatives, providing the audience characters for relation-building processes.

Another feature was the inclusion of poems, which offered another form of representing different identities. They, similar to the extracted pieces, emphasised the powers of being a certain identity; whilst making other identities appear "less valued" or unappreciated.

https://vimeo.com/195809836
Here is a video to the post-dramatic performance produced by DMU first-years. It shows the important parts of the performance, alongside notable features to post-dramatic performance.