Fringe Ideas!
Paige:
She showed us a youtube video of the poem "look up" about technology. We should put our phones down and appreciate the people around us. How smartphones, tablets etc are creating a dis-engaged, unsocial, co-existing bunch of humans without community. at the end of the video i guy misses the opportunity to meet the woman of his dreams because he used his google maps...if he had asked her for directions things would have been different. After we discussed this we said we could show also the counter ideas of how well online dating works and how technology has enhanced life for us too.
Chris, Harry and James:
Invisible theatre filmed as CCTV footage shown in a performance. Crime theme. Audience are like the jury and watch us being interviewed. Audience participation cross examining and voting on who they think is guilty.
Gregg, Jon and G:
Battle Royale/Hungergames; play based on those films/stories. students on an island, involving the audience like a murder mystery or 'choose your own adventure' so there are two endings to the play and the audience decide.
plays based on the books:
misprinted bright disease, which is about a detective who knows he is a fictional character.
Gone, everyone over 15 years of age goes missing and they have to rebuild society and a way of living.
The name of the wind, a man retires and convinces everyone he was dead.
Sam/Yvette:
Famous outlaw criminals through history. A narrator telling the legends and then you see the 'man the behind the mask' how they really were as people. Using collab with music to create an atmosphere for example billy the kid with a western style guitar etc.
A play based on real and fictional characters on death row, using interviews and documentary to create the back stories and crimes committed. performed in the round (square) like a prison cell. flashing from past to present, with scenes of memories, monologues, the crimes being committed, family life, court room drama etc. music collab for atmosphere. multimedia images projected and an opportunity for physical theatre. at the end audience decide which character really deserves the death penalty...no one? one them? all of them? final scene if someone is chosen; spotlight on the chair lethal injection?
Another book I'd like to throw into the mix:
ReplyDelete'I Am Not A Serial Killer'
The first book in a darkly comic new series from a debut author
John works in his family's mortuary and has an obsession with serial killers. He wants to be a good person, but fears he is a sociopath, and for years he has suppressed his dark side through a strict system of rules designed to mimic 'normal' behavior.
Then a demon begins stalking his small town and killing people one by one, and John is forced to give in to his darker nature in order to save them. As he struggles to understand the demon and find a way to kill it, his own mind begins to unravel until he fears he may never regain control. Faced with the reality that he is, perhaps, more monstrous than the monster he is fighting, John must make a final stand against the horrors of both the demon and himself.