I enjoy writing and at university i get the grand opportunity to write, here are how my lessons pan out, see "My Writing" to discover my own creations
- Would you rather activity
- Brief on upcoming year
What makes a play a play?
- space (peter brooke)
- physical expression
- audience response
- characters and relationships
- performers
- presentation for an audience (mine en scene)
- structure
- the space the audience occupies
- setting for audience and performers
- setting for the piece
- verbal expression
What is necessary?
What can you strip down and still have a play?
We Looked at Three short plays:
Play Number. 3
- Conflict between two generations
- Two different classes: Bass music vs Radio 4
- Age indication: “little boy” “young man”
- Dependent on each other: young and old dependance
Play Number 51
- Contrasting characters
- Making meaning out of the rubbish (making meaning and the understanding of meaning)
Play Number 94
- Ambiguity of the play and the understanding
- Terrorist threats because nobody knows about the bag and the current climate of life rn with the terrorist threats
- Setting of the play indicates this idea of threat because of the bag
- Times set of the play was 2009 post 2001
- A simple bag can take on a much wider idea
In bed by Claire MacDonald
- the fluxes movement: Yoko ono
- a piece for learning (Brecht)
The Group put together 3 mini performances
First group
- showing a group doing a task with concentration
- the metaphorical questions being posed to the audience
Second group
- use of space of choreography and space
- possibilities of saying no or telling a story
Third group (my group)
- how in depth do certain peoples dreams will be
- how much of the dreams or material do you show the audience
Samuel Beckett
- Seen as a modernist
- Dramatical limits pushed
- Play: Come and Go (Dramaticule)
- not names that are immediately recognisable
- a lot of silences (Harold Pinter)
- “sitting like we used to” - micro backstory
- Pattern of one leaving and the others whispering and judging the person who has left
- “i can feel the rings” - note in costume “no rings apparent”
- no specification on the ring type
- extreme precision of the movement and leaving the stage - Silent, precise, still
Work to do:
- Write a Play no longer then A4 and the play has the idea of a single shoe centre stage
- Read the whole play of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- Read Visit to a small planet some questions to ask a play by EF
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