Image from Jos Houben: The Neutral MaskA new year begins. We say farewell to Beatrice and welcome into IB1 Caitlin, Andrew, Aisha and Olivia.
Here is a weblink to set you off on some research into theatre styles and practice:
http://www.arts-archives.org/
Bangkok is off and running. Watch this space for more information.
You all have an article on Sponteneity to read: it's taken from Keith Johnstone's book Impro which I highly recommend. Even Kevin said it was an enjoyable extract to read.
Don't forget to read A Midsummer Night's Dream and get designing!
Everyone in IB2 is looking for their chosen tradition or style to focus on for their final Research Investigation.
IB1 just created their first devised piece: "Caught Red Handed". It was performed in the toilets at lunchtime and created the stir everyone hoped for. Thought for the day is this: If you create theatre with the goal of having your audience interact with it, can you then complain that individuals 'spoilt' it?Image taken from BBC News
2 comments:
Olivia says: My comment...By olivia.
I have been doing some extra research on the subject of horror on the stage. since our first Guerilla production was based after horror, i have gotten very interested in it. From my research i found that it is actually very difficult to provoke fear or horror in an audience. At least on stage, Horror is usually created from not knowing that much or striking fear in the audience. When on a stage the audience can see everything. Creating a scary set would be quite a task and then after that you'd need to master the lighting of the stage and work out the monster. Fear is an emotion that is resulted from the unknown and by never seeing the monster or creature of the horror story. It might be difficult to recreate that unknown.
The site that i found most of my information is:http://everything2.com/e2node/the%2520problem%2520of%2520horror%2520in%2520theatre
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