Prop ideas and links

I think the lamps that you can turn on and off with your foot would work well, also there are 6 different colours available. So could purchase the same lamp, but a different colour for each pair.

I tried to find cheaper umbrellas we could use and came across a star designed one on Amazon. Although it states they are children's umbrellas.. But this is the link http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fulton-Funbrella-Stars-Childrens-Umbrella/dp/B0040X45YU. 

They're also a lot more affordable than the ones on Argos. 

I also found a pack of 6 large dice we could possibly use. This is the link for those. http://www.newitts.com/product/IT040965/PLAYM8_Mini_Foam_Dice.htm?gclid=Cj0KEQiAneujBRDcvL6f5uybhdABEiQA_ojMgk2LfZuKHA7wT206HIhDiOO_GJjH5Uc3TPnBEXyY8sYaAr9h8P8HAQ

cheesy?

Lullaby with constellations baby projector pre set with photos video?

Props

Here is a start at list of props that we would ideally want, budget and time allowing. Actors, please add, change, comment etc. The sooner we can get these in rehearsals the better and we are happy to assist with sourcing and buying if that helps.

6 varied or the same floor lamps. need to be easy for actors to switch on and off.

http://www.tesco.com/direct/adjustable-floor-standing-lamp-in-black/168-3713.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=168-3713

this has foot switch which might be easier
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9055740.htm

Umbrellas x 6-8
something like this would be great but it's expensive
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1848632.htm


Variety of chairs/ stools. some nicer kitchen bar type stools, at least 2, would be great.


Overhead camera or drone for bird's eye view perspective of stage.

Dice

star lights

something like this?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/JnDee-Battery-Powered-Shaped-Lights/dp/B00J2AZZ0Y/ref=sr_1_8?s=lighting&ie=UTF8&qid=1417123558&sr=1-8&keywords=star+shaped+lights

torches x 12

small led's or star shaped projections?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Glowstars-Company-Astro-Projector/dp/B003DZ0T3C

will add more tomorrow….

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Rehearsal thursday 27th November

begin with vocal warm up

Run scene with dance, notes and new surprises. We have stage manager Ben with us today too.

Let's also add some viewpoints in the composition. Duration, tempo, repetition

Notes:

some lovely work at the very beginning.
do we add constellations motif over laban jamie or play film in background?
NEED to establish all same in the very beginning. something with names?

Chris' beekeeper? should all Rolands come up with motif?

Chris how does the telco dirty honey make you feel?
Paige and chris lovely interaction first scene but vary the pace.
Chris and Paige scene quite long. Maybe a light in another universe can come up for a moment of silent story-telling

Great play with duration Paige.

Well done harry, nice accent choice.

EVERYONE VOLUME

Can we try, Laura start from Zoe to take over before your second scene with Jamie.

Jonathan good energy but careful of the smiling.

Sam and Gonzalo; very truthful and detailed. Try next time with no pauses and all overlapping. Also, more chemistry between you?

Lovely cross over with tea making Paige and Chris. YOur lights should come on just before Sam and Gonzalo scene ends.

Paige lovely play with language in cosmology.

Lovely motif Dan; maybe over all the Rolands at points?

WHAT DO WE SHOW FOR QUANTUM PHYSICS etc in Zoe's speech? String theory.
WITH ALL LAMPS!????

Zoe, strong delivery of the physics speech.

Laura, very engaging particles speech.

Yvette, another choice for i am so tired? Good listening to each other Dan and Yvette.

Great journey Sam and G, adds dynamics to movement. Can you visit all universes in the right spots for either jamie or Roland?

Brilliant puppet and interaction.

Great mimicking idea when you all came into it with Alison Oconner. Let's make rule that Jamies' only mimic jambes etc. Then you can address another mimicking Jamie or Roland other than your partner at times. This will also help establish only 2 characters?

Really powerful moments of when the motifs come in.

Lovely work Jonathan and Greg.

Great movement Sam and G in portuguese scene. Should we have you not have a universe until the proposal? you can just travel around space? Generals or other universes can light you.

Lovely choice james to cuddle greg. are you a roland and a jamie?

Great moment of harry and zoe, your own wedding? let's have everyone dance. the jamies' that are getting married let go, others don't.

laura, interesting in his face choices with distance.

Yes lovely beginning of ballroom practice little by little then it can build up. to all. with music fading in?

let's build up to whole dancing before laughter. Then G & Sam can shout over the music.
Then paige' s joke will not go down well.

Nicely played dan and yvette but will audience get the meaning of what jamie is considering?

Lovely idea G. Shall we put over Jonathan's bee sign speech?

I love the return of motifs. jamie needs a little other one to do with science?

Lovely proposal G. can you come in with a hanging harmonium instead of piano?

Over Chris bee speech, all jamies with all rolands. Rolands do the bee motif.


lovely proposal crhis. can we keep it you get to the floor without someone pushing you?
Lovely jamie and laura proposal? maybe a little less but lovely play between reality and subtext. laura more with the seduction so that barbecue line more of an anticlimax.

Would men propose on one knee to another man? I don't know.  Lovely hug sam.

Gorgeous dance. can we have a mash up of music though to show different universes and possibilities?

James and paige you dance always too well for roland and jamie. Do we show that you are quite proud of what you have learnt?


Second half after the break:

G & Sam, do the scene across space again?
Good or bad idea for Jamie to have a bag that all jamies' share?
During Sam speech. Light up all Jamies.
Great choice with repetition sam. how to pronounce palliative?
Lovely choice with repetition of ok G.

We need overlapping scenes more.

Then we Zoe's benign, Light up again on healthy Jamies?

Love the happy dance harry and zoe.

Dan reallylovely walking silently over laura speech looking at the stars. Let's keep just that image.

During Yvette and Dan long scene? What do we do?

Can we overlap g&sam scenes and chris and paige? try it and see what it sounds like. And over it harry and zoe?

But harry and zoe were begin couple. will that confuse universes? Should we cut that scene? they can stay happy and healthy instead? otherwise all possibilities are sad?

Is taxi from the hospital? should we signify that? we hospital robe or something?

like the clock sounds.

The pace in the second half really slow. we need to up it. somehow.

yes lovely. harry and chris alone without jamie. but we need to make clearer sense for audience?

Chris yes alone then dance with Paige.

But harry and zoe happier ending.

Final scene idea.

I had an idea for the final scene which I got from trying to replicate the effect from the music video G showed us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BN2PuIsfeY&

I thought we could have a recording of all the different groups doing the scene in different places in the studio and doing different things, (e.g. Dancing, sitting, standing, etc.) then have them fade in and out at different times like windows into different universes.
I also thought it might be nice if at the end of the video all of them fade in and at the same time the lights in the theatre come up and all the Rolland's say their final lines at the same time as they happen on the video but some of them are talking to a Jamie and some aren't.

Could I also ask that people can get me some photos for the other video idea. Preferably: one baby photo, one primary school photo, one high school photo and one modern photo all in a digital format please.

Wednesday Jamie work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4vNI2E554&

Jamie's speech issues

http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/dysarthria-and-dysphasia
Here's a link to a medical page speaking about what I believe is the problem that is causing Jamie to become unable to speak.

24/11/2014

Deaf awareness

Yesterday I taught the group the  family signs, mum , dad ,sister and brother We then  did the days of the week .I then split the group into two to practise the signs . I told them use BSL They asked me questions in BSL not in English . We will do more signing next week .

Laban Constellations

Hello all, looking forward to your application of Laban exercises to the show.
The track Dan was using in the session was
Lovetto by Rachel Grimmes.

EIGHT BASIC EFFORT ACTIONS:

LABAN’S MOVEMENT THEORY

Terms:

1.  Kinesphere:  space within our reach, or our personal space.  It moves with you as you travel.

2.  Dimensions:

1. Up-down (high, middle, deep)
2. Left-right
3. Forward-backward
4. Diagonal

3.  Flow of Movement:

1. Bound flow – can be stopped at any time (pause).
2. Free Flow – difficult to stop suddenly.

4.  Space:  Movement can be linear (direct) or curved (flexible).

5.  Time:  Time can be very personal or cultural.  Modern transport allows us to travel faster and further than in the past.  Time zones can be crossed.  Life used to be governed by the seasons.  Spring was the awakening and planting time, summer was the ripening time.   With autumn came the harvesting time, and winter was the resting time.  Today we have an inbuilt clock and a 24 hour clock.  Speed is still a flexible term, depending upon the influences and circumstances.

6.  Weight:  Our ability to stand upright depends on the tension between the upward force of our bodies and the downward pull of gravity.  Weight must be distributed or we may “lose balance”.  Moving the body anywhere in space requires energy along a light to strong continuum.  A small bounce requires only light force, whereas a pole-vaulter needs a stronger force to leave the ground.  

#	EFFORT	TIME	SPACE	FORCE
1	PRESS	Sustained	Direct	Strong
2	FLICK	Sudden	Indirect (flexible)	Light
3	WRING	Sustained	Indirect	Light
4	DAB	Sudden	Direct	Light
5	SLASH	Sudden	Indirect	Strong
6	GLIDE	Sudden – Sustained	Direct	Light
7	Thrust (punch)	Sudden	Direct	Strong – Light
8	Float	Sustained	Direct – Indirect	Light

1.  Pressing: Sustained, direct, strong.

1. Feel it first with palms of hands.  
2. Press forward and downward, and diagonally across the body.
3. Extend your pressing activity into all spatial directions, and into high, medium, and low zones.
4. Let the other parts of body lead in pressing, for example, the back, the knees, top of head, and elbows or feet.
5. Let two parts of body press simultaneously in two different directions, such as:  right palm up, left hip down.

f.    Press simultaneously in three different directions, for example:  head backward, hips forward,

      elbows outward, away from their sides.

g.   Press down with feet as they walk, taking the body in different directions.

h. Try pressing in kneeling, sitting and lying positions as well as standing.

         i. Try pressing as a transition from one position to another.

         j. Combine (e) and( f) with( g),( h), and (i).

2.  Flicking:  Sudden, Flexible, Light

1. Imagine a fly alighting on food or dust on your jacket.  Flick it away with your hands by quickly twisting the wrists and fingers.
2. Move on to flicking in every part of your kinesphere , near to the body, far away, use high, medium and low zones, directions should include backward and forward and sideways.
3. Try flicking with your shoulders, head and feet.  The most important zone for flicking hands is high, outwards and backwards.  But it is essential to try in all directions, with the hands working simultaneously or alternatively, in the same time, or in different, directions.
4. Continue the explorations with flicking by involving the elbows, hips and knees.
5. Try jumping, flicking the feet in the air.  Flicking the feet rhythmically on the floor gives rise to a light tap dance effect or a “soft shoe shuffle”.
6. As in pressing, flicking can be performed in kneeling, sitting, or lying positions and be used as a transition from one position to another.
7. Repeated flicking produces a fluttering movement.  When the whole body is involved, there is a sense of intense lightness and buoyancy.  In pressing there is a battle with outside resistance, in flicking we can yield to the feeling of lightness, thereby indulging in the weight.
8. Flicking is flexible in the use of space and may be multi-directional.  It is crisp and light.
9. The lightness and speed of flicking is sometimes referred to as “fine touch”.  Other fine touch actions include light stirring, floating, gliding, dabbing, wafting, and tapping.

3.  Wringing:  Sustained, Flexible, Strong

1. Try wringing out clothes movement first.
2. Imagine you are, literally, a wet blanket and try wringing yourself out!  For exercise purposes, practice wringing in a deep, forward and outward zone.  Move to both sides – right and left.
3. Try wringing in all zones and in all directions of the kinesphere.
4. Remember to try simultaneous and alternate movements of different parts of the body into different directions or into the same direction.
5. Stand, lie, sit or kneel to perform the action and use it as a transitional movement.
6. Examples of wringing where concrete resistance by an object is offered are:  washing, knotting, twisting or untangling ropes.  Where no concrete resistance exists, strong counter-tension is necessary and can be felt throughout the body.

4.  Dabbing:  Sudden, Direct, Light.   The basic effort of dabbing is usually performed with free flow but can, when necessary also be performed with bound flow.  

1. This action is clearly felt in the hands as in a painter dabbing at a canvas or in typing.  Try dabbing with the right side leading across the body, diagonally backwards, over the opposite shoulder.  Repeat with the left side leading.
2. Dab with the feet.   It is easy to quickly point the heels or toes.  Try in all directions and in all zones.
3. Try with the knees, hips, shoulders, head, elbows, chin, back, and chest.  Take plenty of time to experience dabbing in all these parts of the body.  Try simultaneous and alternate movements.
4. Try the action with steps.  Knees can dab upwards and toes or heels downwards.
5. When dabbing at a concrete object 9canvas, typewriter), we experience resistance.  However, dabbing in the air requires our muscles to produce the necessary counter-tension which can be felt throughout the body even if only one finger is involved in the action.

5.  Slashing:  Sudden, Flexible, Strong.  Slashing is usually performed with free flow which tends to fade out into floating.

1. A good pathway in which to experience the feeling of slashing is from high forward, across the body to downwards, outwards, and backwards.  One arm should lead the effort.  Then change to the other.
2. Try the arms slashing separately in all directions.
3. Now try each leg separately.
4. Continue with all the possibilities mentioned for the other actions, i.e. limbs separately or together, kneeling, sitting, lying or standing; all directions, including inwards and outwards and moving in different zones.
5. Use slashing as a transition from one position to another.
6. Large jumps give good opportunities for slashing movements of the legs, arms or trunk.  Slashing aimed at a concrete object encounters resistance.  

6.  Gliding:  Sustained, Direct, Light.  Gliding is usually performed with bound flow.

1. Imagine you are smoothing something horizontally, the palms of the hands parallel with the floor or vertically, with the palms facing forward.  Or again, let the palms face inwards as one removes imaginary cobwebs in front of the body.  The most important zone is across the body diagonally forward high but, as with other efforts, you must take the exercise into all zones, all directions, using different parts of the body, some simultaneously, some alternately.
2. Alternate legs can glide over the floor as steps or gestures through space.
3. Gliding with the trunk results in a smooth swaying movement.
4. Remember it can also be used as a transition from one position to another.  In gliding along a concrete object we meet with resistance.  Gliding in the air brings about a counter-tension felt throughout the whole body, giving the feeling of controlled boundness.  As a result, the movement can be stopped at any given moment.  Bound movements in the air rely on the antagonistic muscles to control the action.  Other actions tending to be bound are those of wringing and pressing and their derivatives.  Thrusting can be performed with bound or free flow.  The action of gliding “fights against” Space but “indulges in” Weight and Time.

7.  Thrusting or Punching:  Sudden, Direct, Strong.  Can be performed with bound or free flow.

1. Try to make a fist of the hands and punch forcibly at some imaginary object.   The main zone for this exercise is punching with one arm and fist across the body attacking a target deep (low) backward
2. Thrusting or punching with the legs becomes stamping.
3. Try with other parts of the body, head-butting, elbows, shoulders, knees, hips.
4. Explore your kinesphere in all directions and zones, using the parts of your body simultaneously or alternately.  One doesn’t need to remain standing.  It is possible to punch in a kneeling, lying or sitting position.  In a lying position, the feet can punch into the air.
5. With a reel target, one encounters a natural resistance; the most obvious examples are a punching bag used by boxers or two fighters in the ring.  Where there is no concrete object to resist our punch, we need the counter-tension of the antagonistic muscles which should be felt throughout the body, no matter what part of it is leading the action.  
6. The essential characteristics in punching involve “fighting against” Weight, Space and Time.  Therefore, there is no “indulgence” in this action, no yielding either to lightness or flexibility and no yielding to sustainment of the movement.
7. An abrupt or sudden muscular reaction prevails in quick movements, including such actions as flicking, slashing, dabbing and, of course, thrusting.

8.  Floating:  Sustained, Flexible, Light.  Floating can be with bound or free flow.

1. The action of floating is felt momentarily in a leap when the energy for take-off has subsided and before descent occurs.  On waking, one can also experience it as a slight “stirring” of the resting body during respirations.
2. The most important zone for floating is high, forwards and outwards.
3. Now try floating in all directions and zones as in previous effort exercises.
4. Try floating downwards as well as upwards, with different parts of the body leading alternately or simultaneously.
5. Float or fly with the legs or touch the floor very lightly on tiptoe.
6. Attempt the effort sitting, lying and kneeling as well as standing.
7. Use floating as a transition from one of these positions to another.  If one needs to use floating as in very lightly stirring a liquid, then the liquid is an object offering resistance, however slight.  Without any external resistance, as in a leap through the air, the body employs sets of muscles in a counter-tension, thereby helping to overcome the weight of the body momentarily.  The tensions must be kept to a minimum to achieve a floating movement.
8. In this action there is no “fighting against”.  Here all is “indulgence”, i.e. the essence of floating is one of “indulging in” or yielding to Time, Weight and Space.  We indulge in our lightness, sustain our movement and wander around “smelling our flowers” in Space.  Counter-tensions are very slight and multi-lateral in floating but nonetheless sustain the muscular function of the effort.  Pressing, gliding, wringing and their derivatives are all examples of sustained actions.

Laban calls these dynamic qualities “secondary tendencies”.

The six fundamental directions of the Dimensional Scale also contain their own dynamic qualities, giving rise to such feelings as:

1. Lightness, associated with upward or High direction.
2. Strength, associated with downward of Deep direction.
3. Restriction.  A movement across the body, producing a straight or Direct movement.
4. Freedom of movement associated with the body’s open side, leading to Flexibility.
5. Suddenness as in fear, resulting in the body’s contraction Backward.
6. Sustainment, as tension is slowly released, leading the body in the opposite directions, i.e. Forwards.

G's Grotowski work shop. I though this was really postive G's used Grotowski  theroies to help us focus on emotions, exercising until I felt exhausted meant I was more connected with the emotoin I was trying to show. I was able to switch to a feeling of anger very quickly once I had practised this way of creating this emotion using this technique. I will use this method again.

Sarah asked us to think about Roland and his gestures. As a group we thought about his character and how he may react when he first meets Jamie. We thought he may be awkward and nervous . We tried to show this by his gesture of rubbing his palms on his clothes and by shifting his weight and twitching his leg. I liked this and thought it was believable.

Vanessa

The group did a run thought of the whole play. As we have all mostly learnt our lines i felt this week the story seemed more truthful. We used things we had learnt during the week. Greg and I are signing some of our scenes which will be powerful. I feel we need to continue to try new ideas during our rehearsal and this will develop the characters i would like to try the idea of the whole group dancing together at the end of the show, maybe with different styles such as disco or ballroom.

i feel that having two director is positive for us as this mean we can be challenged with different ideas. from both Sarah and Vanesa.

 

Unit 3 analysis

Please begin analysing rehearsal processes.
Does my way of working with improvisation on the whole play move the process along?
Why are we doing that and when does it work?

What are the two different directing approaches between Sarah and myself?
How can we best marry the two?

FHFDR1 Unit 2A Question 10

Here's a good source explaining symbolism in theatre:
http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/viewpdf/default.aspx?article-title=The_Symbolism_of_Theatre_by_Rene_Guenon.pdf

Video clip that can inspire ideas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03O2yKUgrKw
I was listening to some music and I came across this song. I watched at the video clip and it brought a sense of parallel universes.

Rehearsal thurs 20th November

Ideas

light on wine glasses only in chris and paige scene

show funeral? possibilities x 2 one she dies, one she doesn't….

DICE & Umbrellas

Move the universes around to a different pattern; Move people around universes

DIfferent marriage PROPOSALS.


As Jamie loses words, pick up sign language. Who can learn some?

Dance James & Paige that then dominos to other couples. It makes the lights come on too; some flicker...

Deaf awareness

Deaf awareness

18/11/14

Yesterday I gave out papers with words on to be signed. People worked in pairs. One person signed  and the other person wrote down on paper what they thought  then other person signed and the  other person wrote the word down. Good to see the group enjoy this .I know they felt it was  hard without voice   but it was a good challenge . Next lip reading  activity.  They felt it was  really really hard but good fun. They really enjoyed this. We will carry on next week .

Voice work and constellation

Please read reread and reread the script to be familiar with lines.

voice work with Lisa to establish connections between all Jamies and all Rolands

We're looking for moments of uncannily similar speech and movement.

Lewis' Project volunteers. Please let us know if you are able and willing to work on this project this Thursday evening at Durrington after our session.

Please document and comment on today's (Tuesday) session especially for those that were absent.

Remember to wear purple tops or check shirts tomorrow but still able to do free movement. Please take pictures and make sure you are documenting different rehearsals with different directors on the blog.

Lisa's session

Videos that explain the scientific theories behind the play - esp. for those playing Jaime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev9zrt__lec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30KfPtHec4s

- These two videos are easy steps into Einstein's theory of relativity and are essential to the character of Jaime, the voices on the videos are a little annoying but the information is very interesting

And this one explains quantum mechanics and the idea of the 'Multiverse theory'. It is about an hour long but the idea is essential to the play, especially if you are playing Jaime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STF0moww_zQ

Here's three random youtube clips of beekeeping:

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Zh03bNU1Q
2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wHIGeP17Eo
3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNkKb2pwuek

See if you can find a physicality the bee keepers seem to adapt to or if they speak or behave differently or if you could find what would this job change our physicality in anyway over time. You'll also learn more about bee's by watching these videos.

Constellations literally

This is an app for your mobile, if you hold it up to the sky at night it shows you the constellations and planets above you etc, theres a video on the link that explains it better than i do.
 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.stardroid&hl=en_GB

String Theory image inspiration

Found this image for string theory could we use this somehow maybe as a back drop, or could is be a stimulus for some movement/dance that could happen throughout?


I found this on this site, which explains string theory and quantum mechanics for kids, so its easy to read. Take a look! http://stringtheory4kids.wordpress.com/

Mainly for those playing Roland.

There is a film that could be useful to those playing Roland. It might give you a peek at what it could be like to be with Jamie and her condition.
 The film is called "The Vow".
Summary-
Leo and Paige are a couple who just got married. After an accident, Paige is left unconscious, and when she awakes she doesn't remember Leo. Her parents, whom she hasn't seen since she and Leo got together, come and visit her. She can't believe that she hasn't seen them for such a long time. Leo wants to bring her home with him but her parents want her to go with them. She goes with Leo but when she doesn't recognize anything, she goes to her parents. And she wonders why did she cut off contact with her family. She also runs into her ex and wonders why they broke up. Leo tries to win her back by courting her again.

Impro run of constellations thursday pm

• great change of dynamics when paige run into a scene
• chris and paige lovely mirroring 
• lovely moment of harry and zoe stillness; others mirroring, others just watching while y&d continuing their scene is silence with umbrella
• lovel ytaking umbrella to other couple
• Do we need beginning where you all do the same to establish same characters? Or do we open with a film on string theory?
• the mirroring needs to sometimes be exactly uncannily precise
• LAMPS NEED TO BE MOVABLE? POSSIBLE?
• lovely moment when zoe moved to other stillness and harry stayed the same
• Chris half way through the longer scene, move to another partner. Paige remain reacting to him just as if he was there
• We need to be careful not to confuse audience; the convention of mirroring with difference can mean you are playing the subtext. we mean it to be another universe possibility
• again, lovely stillness between zoe and harry where only zoe moves
• the first line of 'james and i had sex', do we need all lamps coming on? or too much?
• chris lovely delivery of i was at the pub
• jonathan lovely mirroring;
• WE NEED SOME UNIFORM GESTURES: what can they be? a tired gesture, a greeting? a laugh.
• some lovely motifs: Yvette lying down on Dan, laura and James looking at the start.
• Maybe some couples drink before we get to drunk scene?
• Paige great image lying on chair looking at the stars? see photo.

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• NEED A drunk acting exercise workshop
• WE really need another actor to learn to sign a scene. It's written in the script too.
• some very engaging truthful acting. How do we sustain that but up the volume for the theatre?
• lovely fight/tender scene G & Sam
• What props might we need to signify locations? Sieve, pillow, umbrella, tv control???
• Lovely move to non naturalism chris.
• MAIN REVELATIONS; KEY MOMENTS; i have a wife , I slept with Jamie, The Tumour, I got engaged………
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• yvette and paige lovely trouser front scene
• sam lovely picking up of joke of inferno and changing atmosphere
• lovely moment towards end, harry rushes 'hello jamie' and lots of boys flock with
• dance from yvette and dan gave me an idea: should one couple be dancing different kind of dances throughout? one of you? or we could even have another say 2nd years couple on stage dancing throughout?
• lovely other hands comedy G. ok to have that kind of comedy? it changes pace and is funny….
• Can it rain on one couple but not another? could that be a catalyst in different choices made and make sense of umbrellas?
• Idea for ending. Same opening as beginning. All couples in their lights/lamps but without some Jamies…
• Another idea: if one of the revelations happens on phone. That also a reason why the choice changes. EG he didn't see her face to see what she meant so same words but different reactions to other couple that did it face to face.
• lovely concentration of typing up paper Paige
• Chris excellent changing of pace again. WE need to make sure we do that or the repetition becomes tiring.
• WHAT IS THE POINT of the bee speech?

• Lovely queen Bee Dan
• Great idea to make rain sounds on umbrella chris
• lovely scene laura and jamie on tumour; underplayed and truthful. Poignant that you played uno throughout.

• what is uno, is it significant? good metaphor?
• great throwing the cards at laura jamie
• Sam & G yes that much anger about handbag great to change mood so dynamically
• What do we want from the ending? What does the ENDING MEAN?????
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physicists

hey guys
this one is for the actors who are playing Jamie.
its about a new theory on paralle worlds. this was published about 4 years ago so roughly about the same time when constellations was performed.

http://www.newswise.com/articles/new-theory-by-texas-tech-scientist-suggests-all-quantum-weirdness-caused-by-interacting-parallel-worlds?ret=/articles/list&category=science&page=1&search%5Bstatus%5D=3&search%5Bsort%5D=date+desc&search%5Bsection%5D=20&search%5Bhas_multimedia%5D=

bee keeper

hey guys
this is a website to some basic beekeeping tips. I thought that this could help with the boys who are playing roland.


http://scientificbeekeeping.com/first-year-care-for-your-nuc/

Constellations

Hey guys

I was going through YouTube and I was trying to look for some scenes from the national court theatre of the two actors that performed constellation. Unfortunately I couldn't find any. what I did find was a Spanish version but instead of it being spoken in Spanish and having scene from their show. It looked like they have taken some important scenes from the show and had Sally Hawkins (Marianne) voicing it over. It's pretty good and I hope you guys get the chance to have a look. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?=q5M0_CpB2vU

Free taster session from International Improvisation teacher in Worthing!

SPECIAL TICKET OFFER FROM WORTHING THEATRES!!!

? We can offer tickets on these dates only to students for £5: only on Friday 14 (7.30pm) and Saturday 15 (2pm, 7.30pm) November at the Connaught Theatre.

 

Just quote: FRINGE and either book online or in person.

 

http://www.worthingtheatres.co.uk/events-by-type/theatre/name,124023,en.asp

 

The Trench

 

Les Enfants Terribles tour the UK with their award-winning show, The Trench.

 

From the team behind The Terrible Infants, Ernest and the Pale Moon and The Vaudevillains, comes a new play inspired by the true story of a miner who became entombed in a tunnel during World War One.

 

As the horror threatens to engulf him, he finds that not everything in the darkness is what it seems as he starts to discover a new, strange world beneath the mud and death. Setting off on an epic journey of salvation, the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur as he questions what’s real, what’s not and whether it even matters?

 

Blending live music, puppetry and physical performance, The Trench is the critically acclaimed new show from “razor sharp theatre company” Les Enfants Terribles (The Telegraph). The company has performed productions to thousands of people all over the world including theatres in Poland, Czech Republic, Dubai, Norway, Singapore, Australia, and has toured extensively all over the UK winning vast critical acclaim. 

 

Written by Oliver Lansley (BBC2’s Whites, ITV2’s FM and SKY’S Little Crackers) with music by acclaimed artist Alexander Wolfe. Alexander has performed with many artists including Jamie Cullen and Paul Weller before embarking on a solo career with his debut album Morning Brings a Flood winning huge acclaim from the New York Post to The Sunday Times to name a few.

 

Directed by James Seager and Oliver Lansley.

 

"A TOTAL THEATRE EXPERIENCE OF ENGROSSING INTENSITY, THE TRENCH EMPLOYS ACTING, MIME, MUSIC, PUPPETRY, FILM AND EVEN FLYING TO ENRICH HISTORY WITH THE QUALITY OF MYTH AND REINVEST AN OLD STORY WITH THE POWER IT HAS LOST THROUGH OVER FAMILIARITY…MUST SEE SHOW"

The Stage

 

"A PITCH PERFECT DEMONSTRATION OF ATMOSPHERIC THEATRE. LET’S EXPERIENCE IN CREATING SINISTER WORLDS WORKS PERFECTLY WITH THE SUBJECT MATTER TO CREATE A DEVASTATINGLY EMOTIVE GLIMPSE INTO HELL ON EARTH"

The List

 

"THE OVERALL VISION STAYS WITH YOU LIKE A STRANGE, SIGNIFICANT DREAM"

The Times

 

"TOTAL TRIUMPH...THIS PRODUCTION USES THEATRE TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE ANY OTHER ART FORM ACHIEVING THE SAME"

Edinburgh Evening News

 

lesenfantsterribles.co.uk

Deaf Awareness

deaf awareness

11/11/14


Yesterday I taught  my class mates  signs about feelings like sad, happy , fed up and I asked  my class mates questions about how they feel. Then we played a  game.One person signed one word. Other person looked and thought  what the sign mean,t and write down the answer This was really  challenging as the person signed with no voice . It was also hard for them to sign using no voice.

jonathan

THANKS!!!

A BIG thank you to all of you for completing the first impressions survey - you made our course  look surpassingly cool with 100% completion!

Sources for anyone interested in naturalism

http://www.tsd.ac.uk/en/media/uniweb/content/documents/departments/lrc/thestudentresearcher/vol1no1/Alexander%20Johnson,%20Naturalism%20and%20Realism%20Stanislavskys%20Verisimilitude.pdf
- This is an article from the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David and it discusses and reviews the effect of that naturalism and Stanislavski had on theatre and how it continues to do so. It also looks at how the changes in society and views contributed to the movements success.

http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/genres/naturalistic-realistic-drama-iid-2495
- This gives an overview of the naturalism movement in theatre and it briefly mentions some of the leading pioneers of it inc. Stanislavski, Ibsen and Chekhov.

FHFDR1 unite 2a 10 questions

Hi guys 

This is for the people who are doing naturalism. It's the difference between realism and naturalism. Hope this helps. 

http://www.thedramateacher.com

FHFDR1- 10 questions useful source

For anyone basing their essay on Symbolism I found this link very useful.

http://www.thedramateacher.com/symbolism/

inspiring play useful for this project

Hi guys,

 I have already mentioned it to a few of you but watch Lovesong on digital theatre. It's Frantic Assembly who have been mentioned this week and the movement in the piece is similar to the work we did on thursday. Also it is based on a couple that is played by 2 different couples, in the past and in present so its also relates to us playing the same characters in pairs.

Let me know what you think :)

Yvette

Show

Please try watch this show; i think Friday sold out but tickets available for Saturday shows.
Tickets only £6
http://theoldmarket.com/shows/golem/

Constellations - Unit 3

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-features/9666090/Nick-Payne-from-one-bereavement-to-endless-universes.html

I found the above newspaper article from the telegraph online. I thought I would share the link with you all, as it's an autobiographical piece written by the playwright of Constellations. Nick Payne, shares his personal life events and how they had influences on writing the play. 

Should take a look, only takes a few minutes to read and is quite interesting! 

Zoe :) 

FIRST IMPRESSIONS SURVEY

Hi There!
 A BIG thanks to half of the group who have completed the FIRST IMPRESSIONS SURVEY.
For the rest of you, the closing date is this Friday, so PLEASE, get your skates on and do the survey - it's really quick and you can do it on or off campus.
you will need to define yourself as HE ( University level) and to input your course code, which is FHFDR1. See my post earlier on the blog ( 27th October) for the clickable link.
Thanks,
Lisa & Vanessa

Deaf Awareness

Deaf Awareness session for my group

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Tuesday 30th September

 I talked about Deaf rules for example how to talk face to face and how important lighting is.I told the group  they we would be learning  sign language .I talked about how to attract my attention by stamping the floor ,waving or tapping my shoulder. Don't ever shout and don't cover you mouth and don't get into my personal space.Stand still when talking to me. I felt the group were really interested.
..


7th october

We did the alphabet finger spelling . We talked about sign names .We discussed what people's hobbies were what they liked doing and made their sign names from this .Lara likes eating so she has the sign for eating food. We signed Hello My name is .....



21st october

We did good morning who? We did sentences like you live where ? We talked about signing with no voice which they found very hard.


4th November  

We did teaching sign about animals cow, dog, chicken We also talked about countries UK, USA , china . We will carry on next week!!!!!!!

What Deaf people experienced in World War 1

Hey all,

I just saw this article on the BBC website, and thought it had interesting dramatic possibilities, as well as being informative in its own right - check out the link!

A reminder: if you haven't already posted your useful source for Unit 2a, please do so, and a big THANKS to those of you who already have!

Unit 2a source.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/27533312

New Projects

Very exciting discussions and ideas today well done all. Who remembers Sam's three bits of advice?

Please start blogging for this next project as it is now an assessed component.
Great journeys ahead, get in that suitcase!

Task-Useful link - Symbolism

http://www.theatrelinks.com/symbolism/

Unit 2a Contextual Studies - Useful Source

I have decided to do my essay on symblolism, so I have been researching for sources.

I came across this book 'Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism Surrealism and the Absurd' by John Louis Styan.

I am going to check if this book is in the library tomorrow, if not I will order it online of Amazon. 

But at the moment I have been reading snippets of it online.

Just think this is a really useful source for the essays, especially if you're doing symbolism! 

Zoe :)