theatre

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Performance and evaluation

Today we had our performance, which I had mixed feelings about. As our group went to our site we saw an initial problem- there was a show on in the Obie so people were constantly walking through our space and there was a lot of noise. It was also lunch time for the rest of the school so our site was also filled with people eating their lunches, which was a bit annoying at the time, but was fine as lunch didn't end too soon after. When trying to do a full run through it was often disrupted by things and people coming through our space so we were unable to do a full run through which I think effected the links of our final piece.

When doing the piece Ruby and my individual piece went quite badly wrong as we missed quite a large part out, which made it very short. However, I think the noises we recreated were good and they added something more than just words to our piece, which made it more interesting to watch. Yet, I am aware that it was very short and that for some of it we had our back to the audience which would of made it confusing to watch. I know that Ruby and I's individual piece did not fully get there which is disappointing, but I believe it is because we both struggled finding inspiration from where our site was. As Ruby and I leave the site at the end of our piece I was unable to see how the rest of the performance went but I am aware that we should of met up more as a group to make the piece more concrete as I felt like we were all a bit unsure on what we were doing at times.

Lesson five

Today Ruby and I were the only members of our group who were in so we took the opportunity to talk about our individual piece and work on it. We decided to explore being blind and finding love with each other, but then loosing each other. We decided on blindness as the disability we would focus on as   we thought the sounds we had heard around our site during rehearsal periods where similar to those made by a 'white tipped cane'  when touching the ground and other surrounding objects. Therefore we decided to include these sounds at the beginning of our piece, which results in us finding each other. Though we did not get the piece moving much this lesson it was really useful to see where we were with it and to finalise what we were going to do in our piece as the show is next week and I wasn't feeling confident about it at all.

Lesson four

Today we got to our site to find that the majority of the found objects in our site had gone. Though we had not relied on the smaller things, some of the bigger things that had been there for a while had been added into our piece so this was a bit annoying. Luckily for us all the work we had done so far was effected too badly from the change of scenery, and in some places added more inspiration. It also gave us more space as before the corridor was a lot thinner due to the amount of stuff that was there. There was one new object that was significant for Nicolas's piece- which was the one of The BRIT awards statues. We discussed this new addition to our site and from it got that it represented a virtual figure or celebrity, and from this Nicolas could explore the idea of someone being so infatuated with a celebrity or a virtual figure and what this brings with it. I thought this was a very interesting topic as recently I have seen television programmes advertised about this topic.

Over the week Ruby and I were talking about the difficulties that disabled people must face when they are in love or looking for love and so decided that we were going to explore this as our main topic.

Lesson three

Today was the first lesson where I felt we started making progress with our piece as Charlie had started to create his individual piece and I really liked the idea behind it, of being personal to one of the audience members. From this we got the idea to each take an audience member and make it personal to them- by finding out who was coming to the performance as soon as we could. As we knew for certain our teacher Will would be coming, Charlie decided to make his individual scene personal to him. At our site there were a few round tables with red table clothes on them and Charlie had incorporated them into his piece as if he would be on a date with one of the audience members, which I thought was a good idea from the found objects. Nicolas also talked about and showed his idea which focused on coming out and same sex relationships as there was also a large closet on our site which was quite eye drawing, which made us think we should use it as the audience would be drawn to it. Personally, I was still struggling to think of a strong idea with my individual scene, but was trying to draw inspiration from a particular locker which was filled with rubbish. From this I thought about the streets and from this I thought about love for homeless people, yet I still couldn't think of how I would use the site to my advantage.

Lesson two

Today we realised that the area contained a lot of messages about safety and a lot of safety paraphernalia- such as fire extinguishers. From this we started to think about what kind of safety and security love brings with it, and how we could express this in a story. Ideas to do with financial security and the safety of always having someone there came up, but none of us felt like these stories would be very engaging for the audience and could be performed in a conventional theatre space very easily. This week we also started to notice that most of the found objects in our site were moved and replaced with something different, as the site is right next to technical theatre. Through this we came up with the idea of all of us doing our own little individual scenes (all with the theme of love) as it represented the change of the site.

Location pictures

Lesson one

Today we began by exploring our site and seeing the different properties and found objects which we could use as inspiration for the piece. When choosing the site the thing that drew me to it was the lockers, with all the different types of locks on them, and it instantly made me think of the love lock bridges. These bridges are a place where couples attach a padlock and throw away the key as a sign of their love for each other, and so when the lockers reminded us of this we agreed on the theme of love.

The love lock bridge in Paris.

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