Notes.

 4.03.2014

Unit 13- Contemporary theatre performance

Unit 19- Principles of acting

Unit 1- Performance workshop

Key rehearsal tasks:

 *Learn lines (more flexible, rehearsals can start properly, etc.)

 *Blocking (organizing performance space)

 *Props and costume (character comes to life)

 *Characterisation (back story, not realism)

 *Tech stuff (creepy, slow music)

 *Research (on your character, what people think about the play, etc.)

6.04.2014

Verfremdungseffekt= creating emotions.

   *epic theatre

   *alienation

e.g. actress character has been raped, audience feel what she feels but then a clown behind her is making fun and you laugh, but you are then conflicted and you question it/ have questions/ are confused = wanted to leave thinking, wanted to make a point.

  *Didactic= intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.
*Was in the 1940s.

  This could help our play by us incorporating this idea. We could use the moral of changing the audiences feelings so dramatically that they are confused in their own feelings and thoughts. This would leave a dramatic feeling in the audiences minds and they would think about what was going on a lot more. This would help us to easily make our audience more interested in what is going on and make them actually think instead of just view.

13.03.2014

Brecht

Placards= A narration of what is going on (e.g. what the actor is thinking/actually wanting to say.) They are blunt and straight to the point because Brecht preferred it like that, however when playing around with this idea in class we thought overall that it was actually better to subtle.

  In our play, we also have narration of the 'Chorous', it is story telling for the audience of what is going on in the scene without bluntly telling them, we are still making them think and be interested.

  Brecht watched a lot of Greek Theatre, he didn't like the plays but loved the chorus'.

Types of narration:

*1st person- "I did this"

*3rd person- objects that don't usually speak (e.g. the wind whistled)

*In character

*Stepping out of character

  Caricature= a joke of themselves (e.g. Miss Slighcarp, Mr Grimshaw are both great examples of this, their personalities are very over the top and almost not human, like animals.)

 Stereotypes= sexuality, what you wear, chavs, teen mums.

*Based on ignorance, speak from others. Easy to say, automatically thought if you were brought up with it. Quite useful because if showing a character with a stereotype it is easier because everybody in the audience will know what type of person is being portrayed.