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