Synopsis- We are all hungry for certain things in life. However, the moment we are unsatisfied with what we are alreday granted, we hunger for more, and thus thuis hunger turns into greed. This is the case for 4 characters in hungry- Gwakawakawena, Mui Choo, Sarah and Mug. Greed has caused theuir pre-mature deaths and in the course of re-looking lack anbd living in purgatory, with the guidance of Death and Baby, the characters learn what they had been missing in life.
NEW DV!!!!- Hunger is healthy until it turns to greed.
Characters-
Mui Choo: Greedy for love. Had too much of it and was too fast. Too much love is unhealthy.
: Box- broken heart
Mug: Knowledge without understanding. HE is the result of the greed that students feel.
: Box- Transparent box
Gwak: Greedy for fame and acknowledgement.
: Box- crushed paper, paint brushes, paintings that are too big....
Sarah: Greedy for knowledge and getting it quick.
: Box- Disfigured box. Too many books.
Baby: Not greedy, SHe is the example of a person with a hunger but no greed.
: Box- White pure box.
Key Ideas-
1) Puppetry-Shadow Puppetry
2) Boxes for Set
3) LIghts- Hard+Soft+Colours
Problem Areas-
1) Script: Too episodic. We need to try and make it revolve around the main theme.
The New Death:
- He will be more nosy, curious, feeding us with too much information at one time. (JOJ examiner style)
- Sometimes reads the characters mind.
-Questions the audience about issues were dealing with.
Costume:
Baby- All white
Mui Choo- Bar waitress
Death- Suit
Mug- White Singlet+ short pants+walking stick
Gwak- Artsy
Sarah- Any uniform
Monday, January 11, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
7th Jan Meeting
Location: Mc D (City Hall)
Time: 2-4
Attendance: Full (On time)
Agenda: Discuss Directrial Style, Vision and other technical aspects.
DV (needs to be rephrased)- Be grateful for what you have.
Set- Four frames for shadow puppetry (located downstage)
Before each characters scene with death, both death and the character will be behind the cloth. When they die, the character leaves life and comes into purgatory (centre stage infront of cloth). But the shadow of how they die (Sarah hanging, Mui Chew drowning, etc) will remain as a shadow, 'haunting them'. The frames have to be located above the ground so that the shadows seem to be looming above the characters at all times.
- Boxes (Which will act as everything- table, chair, toliet bowl)
The boxes represent life. Life may not contain what you want like success or fame or knowledge.
It is simple, but even so, great thungs can be made out of it.
With only one box each, an individual seems useless, but when combined together with other boxes, it forms something entierly new and worth it.
The boxes contain things from their past lives, things that they didnt achieve, things that they were ungrateful for. Slowly, they took these items out of the boxes and laid them aside, deciding instead to focus on the present, their life in Purgatory and the 'family' they had there. They learnt to be grateful for what they had.
Remember it not so much about what were trying to get at because everything seems so cliche, but its how we get to that message and how well we present it to the audience.
For the next meeting-
1) Look at your character and see what needs to me removed and added to them so that the DV can be more clearly made known to the audience.
2) Look into Practisioners and Theatre Genres. Study their styles, issues they deal with, how they portray it on stage, what effects they are looking for, etc
3) Continue brain storming for ideas and differnet approaches to the play. We havent finalized anythign yet....
-Priscilla Jamir
Time: 2-4
Attendance: Full (On time)
Agenda: Discuss Directrial Style, Vision and other technical aspects.
DV (needs to be rephrased)- Be grateful for what you have.
Set- Four frames for shadow puppetry (located downstage)
Before each characters scene with death, both death and the character will be behind the cloth. When they die, the character leaves life and comes into purgatory (centre stage infront of cloth). But the shadow of how they die (Sarah hanging, Mui Chew drowning, etc) will remain as a shadow, 'haunting them'. The frames have to be located above the ground so that the shadows seem to be looming above the characters at all times.
- Boxes (Which will act as everything- table, chair, toliet bowl)
The boxes represent life. Life may not contain what you want like success or fame or knowledge.
It is simple, but even so, great thungs can be made out of it.
With only one box each, an individual seems useless, but when combined together with other boxes, it forms something entierly new and worth it.
The boxes contain things from their past lives, things that they didnt achieve, things that they were ungrateful for. Slowly, they took these items out of the boxes and laid them aside, deciding instead to focus on the present, their life in Purgatory and the 'family' they had there. They learnt to be grateful for what they had.
Remember it not so much about what were trying to get at because everything seems so cliche, but its how we get to that message and how well we present it to the audience.
For the next meeting-
1) Look at your character and see what needs to me removed and added to them so that the DV can be more clearly made known to the audience.
2) Look into Practisioners and Theatre Genres. Study their styles, issues they deal with, how they portray it on stage, what effects they are looking for, etc
3) Continue brain storming for ideas and differnet approaches to the play. We havent finalized anythign yet....
-Priscilla Jamir
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Week 4 -Priscilla
WEEK 4
I am going to use Epic theatre as a basis for this write up.
One of the needs of that genre was for the audience to empathize with the characters on stage. Thus I would play my character as realistically as possible.
My aim- will be to get the audience to sympathize with a confused young girl who is trying to find the answers her heart tells her she needs.
Costume- I don’t think there is a dire need to put her up in a girls school uniform, anything will do really. I don’t see a huge diff.
Ending- I’m not too sure (so ill verify when I am) whether Epic theatre requires us to provide a sort of solution for the problems that we present.
Modification- I still just can’t grasp why she started eating shit. Was it because she thought it would help her go back to the way she was? I don’t see the link. It doesn’t seem like her to resort to such a thing and to so easily believe in the fact that eating shit would be a solution to whatever the problem seems to be.
Sarah- I’m very emotional and very short tempered too and did I mention I was easily annoyed by people who aren’t as sensible as me. I usually do things relatively slowly because I have to analyze and think about them first, so action comes only after thought. However when I’m angry, there is no stopping me from doing anything. When I have made a decision there is no stopping me. When I hate I do it wholeheartedly and the same goes for love, pity as well as anything else I set my mind to.
Gek speaks fast and in that annoying theatrical bullshit kind of voice that annoys the hell out of me! So excited and cherry all the time!
Baby is adorable at times. One can see from the pace that she speaks in that she thinks through everything, maybe even more than I do!
Mug is incomprehensible some of the times. He has this fixed rhythm to the way he speaks which is broken only when he starts a new sentence or when there is a punctuation that links two words that don’t make sense when put side by side. So not human!
Mui Choo- Kind, gentle and maybe too fragile. She would make a great mum, only problem is that she would not be able to care for its need for information. She has that uneducated peace about her. Unlike me she is somehow at peace with everything that is around her, and she seems to accept things as they are.
Characters according to pace of speech-
1) Gek
2) Mug
3) Sarah/ Death
4) Mui Choo
5) Baby
I am going to use Epic theatre as a basis for this write up.
One of the needs of that genre was for the audience to empathize with the characters on stage. Thus I would play my character as realistically as possible.
My aim- will be to get the audience to sympathize with a confused young girl who is trying to find the answers her heart tells her she needs.
Costume- I don’t think there is a dire need to put her up in a girls school uniform, anything will do really. I don’t see a huge diff.
Ending- I’m not too sure (so ill verify when I am) whether Epic theatre requires us to provide a sort of solution for the problems that we present.
Modification- I still just can’t grasp why she started eating shit. Was it because she thought it would help her go back to the way she was? I don’t see the link. It doesn’t seem like her to resort to such a thing and to so easily believe in the fact that eating shit would be a solution to whatever the problem seems to be.
Sarah- I’m very emotional and very short tempered too and did I mention I was easily annoyed by people who aren’t as sensible as me. I usually do things relatively slowly because I have to analyze and think about them first, so action comes only after thought. However when I’m angry, there is no stopping me from doing anything. When I have made a decision there is no stopping me. When I hate I do it wholeheartedly and the same goes for love, pity as well as anything else I set my mind to.
Gek speaks fast and in that annoying theatrical bullshit kind of voice that annoys the hell out of me! So excited and cherry all the time!
Baby is adorable at times. One can see from the pace that she speaks in that she thinks through everything, maybe even more than I do!
Mug is incomprehensible some of the times. He has this fixed rhythm to the way he speaks which is broken only when he starts a new sentence or when there is a punctuation that links two words that don’t make sense when put side by side. So not human!
Mui Choo- Kind, gentle and maybe too fragile. She would make a great mum, only problem is that she would not be able to care for its need for information. She has that uneducated peace about her. Unlike me she is somehow at peace with everything that is around her, and she seems to accept things as they are.
Characters according to pace of speech-
1) Gek
2) Mug
3) Sarah/ Death
4) Mui Choo
5) Baby
Week 3 -Priscilla
Of all the Theatre genres that i researched on, Epic Theatre stood out from all the rest. Here is what i found and some suggestions on how to use it.
(Im sorry its coming up so late.. couldnt access the net the past weeks, so here it is)
What we cant really relate to for our piece-
-Capitalism caused all the problems in the world. Communism and Socialism are the solutions.
-Brecht wanted the audience to do something about the issues that he presented on stage. To change the economic situation.
Elements that can work for us-
-He wanted the audience to evaluate the socioeconomic implications of what was going wrong in the world.
-Brecht saw the theatre not as a pace to escape one’s problems but rather as a place to recognize problems that are then to be solved outside the theatre.
-Alienation was achieved by distancing the audience from time or/and place.
-His alienation worked by the process of engaging the audience empathetically and then, through some device (such as a song or as in Greek drama; a chorus), creates the distance needed to evaluate what has been experienced during the empathetic moments.
-Brecht called it ‘Epic theatre’ because it showed similarities with Epic poetry where in dialogue and narration alternated and time and place were quickly transformed.
Each character has an issue related to them-
Gwak-Art scene and issues with an artist
Sarah- Knowledge/Information/Reason/Justification
Mui- Lack of love/Escape
Baby- Abortion
Mug- Self worth/Knowledge vs Wisdom.
When each character has a scene with death (Or wherever it seems appropriate), a ‘chorus’ can appear and give a 3rd person perspective to the issue the character is dealing with. It could be information about the social problem or the cause of it and how no one has been going anything about it. Just like the Steph’s DS, the issue of abortion could be raised.
Basically what the ‘chorus’ will be doing is to alienate the audience and present the issue to them as it is in the world today. If you want, contrasts of the situation can be drawn from the past.
Additional Info-
Lights- Were mostly raw, since he wanted to alienate the audience. However I think we can use the lights POOP used since we have similar intentions of alienation.
Costume- Need not be like poor theatre. In some cases it was quite grand and was made according to the need of the character. So we can still use the half puppet half human idea here.
Sound- There usually is a lot of song in his pieces since he used it as a device to alienate the audience however I don’t think its necessary. No mood music per se was used.
Space- No mention of space and the usage of the stage. (Will get down to more research)
(Im sorry its coming up so late.. couldnt access the net the past weeks, so here it is)
What we cant really relate to for our piece-
-Capitalism caused all the problems in the world. Communism and Socialism are the solutions.
-Brecht wanted the audience to do something about the issues that he presented on stage. To change the economic situation.
Elements that can work for us-
-He wanted the audience to evaluate the socioeconomic implications of what was going wrong in the world.
-Brecht saw the theatre not as a pace to escape one’s problems but rather as a place to recognize problems that are then to be solved outside the theatre.
-Alienation was achieved by distancing the audience from time or/and place.
-His alienation worked by the process of engaging the audience empathetically and then, through some device (such as a song or as in Greek drama; a chorus), creates the distance needed to evaluate what has been experienced during the empathetic moments.
-Brecht called it ‘Epic theatre’ because it showed similarities with Epic poetry where in dialogue and narration alternated and time and place were quickly transformed.
Each character has an issue related to them-
Gwak-Art scene and issues with an artist
Sarah- Knowledge/Information/Reason/Justification
Mui- Lack of love/Escape
Baby- Abortion
Mug- Self worth/Knowledge vs Wisdom.
When each character has a scene with death (Or wherever it seems appropriate), a ‘chorus’ can appear and give a 3rd person perspective to the issue the character is dealing with. It could be information about the social problem or the cause of it and how no one has been going anything about it. Just like the Steph’s DS, the issue of abortion could be raised.
Basically what the ‘chorus’ will be doing is to alienate the audience and present the issue to them as it is in the world today. If you want, contrasts of the situation can be drawn from the past.
Additional Info-
Lights- Were mostly raw, since he wanted to alienate the audience. However I think we can use the lights POOP used since we have similar intentions of alienation.
Costume- Need not be like poor theatre. In some cases it was quite grand and was made according to the need of the character. So we can still use the half puppet half human idea here.
Sound- There usually is a lot of song in his pieces since he used it as a device to alienate the audience however I don’t think its necessary. No mood music per se was used.
Space- No mention of space and the usage of the stage. (Will get down to more research)
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Character Work - Death
What do I see Death doing in the play?
Well basically, Death seems to be the character that oversees everything in the course of the play. He is the character that governs the so called purgatory. So what I envision Death doing in this play would that he will be perpetually overseeing whatever is happening in the scene. (unless he is part of it.) He doesnt have to be stationary. He could be walking around, basically just acting as an observer.
Costume
Of course, there is always the conventional costume of Death as the grim reaper. But I was thinking also that Death could be dressed up as a businessman of sorts. Dressed in a suit, complete with a tophot and maybe a suitcase even. The colour will still follow the black/greyish tone.
Character Idiosyncracy
I think this actually really depends on the type of style that we're adopting. If its a realistic style of acting, then i guess speaking normally would be ok. However, if we're doing the more exagerrated style, then i guess we should also play how the character speaks to the max. In terms of gestures, I think we can include what we've discussed before, with how Death seems to be perpetually munching on an apple.
Well basically, Death seems to be the character that oversees everything in the course of the play. He is the character that governs the so called purgatory. So what I envision Death doing in this play would that he will be perpetually overseeing whatever is happening in the scene. (unless he is part of it.) He doesnt have to be stationary. He could be walking around, basically just acting as an observer.
Costume
Of course, there is always the conventional costume of Death as the grim reaper. But I was thinking also that Death could be dressed up as a businessman of sorts. Dressed in a suit, complete with a tophot and maybe a suitcase even. The colour will still follow the black/greyish tone.
Character Idiosyncracy
I think this actually really depends on the type of style that we're adopting. If its a realistic style of acting, then i guess speaking normally would be ok. However, if we're doing the more exagerrated style, then i guess we should also play how the character speaks to the max. In terms of gestures, I think we can include what we've discussed before, with how Death seems to be perpetually munching on an apple.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)