Group meeting 23rd/24th Feb (cum TSD lesson)

Location: Blackbox
Agenda: Get the 'world of the play' for Hungry + Draft set for it

1. Main themes: Regret, Greed, Life / Meaning of life, Death
   
   • Regret: Love, Pain, Temptation/want, Waiting, Dissatisfaction, Unwillingness to move on, Is ignorance bliss?, Mother/child relationship (family), Sin, Suicide, Realization, Greed, Death
     
     
   • Greed: Disillusionment, Knowledge vs Wisdom, Survival of the fittest
     
     
   • Life / Meaning of life: Repression of society, Regret
     
     
   • Death: Dying religions
     
     
2. Key words for our perception of purgatory:
   
   • No where; universal space
   • Confusing
   • Smokey
   • Cold
   • White
   • Empty
   • Spooky
   • Dark
   • Dusty
   • Bright
   • Vacuum
   • Surrounded; claustrophobic
   • Industrial
   • Deserted; bare
   • Quiet
     
     
3. 1st Idea of RESTAURANT:-
   
   • Like a terminal where we are dropped off to have our break and we WAIT to get to somewhere.
   • Clocks. Everyone wears it. Death fixes our clocks at times. It represents our regret and that it is weighing us down.
   • OR All of us having our 'disability' look. Eg: Sarah in ropes.
   • Extra set ideas: Extended kitchen used for puppetry. Elevator cloth.
     
     
4. 2nd Idea of HOSPITAL WARD:-
   
   • Each of us has our own physical disability and we all have our own beds with our personal items that represents our character. That physical disability weighs us down.
   • Curtains. It allows characters to 'leave' the scene so they don't feel awkward :)
   • Death serves as a nurse that checks on us, cleans for us etc.
   • Sleep. We all do fall asleep in this purgatory and when we do, death scenes are replayed.
     
     
5. 24th Feb's decision: HOSPITAL WARD:-
   
   • Scenes:
     - 1: Adam & Eve
     - 2: Death drags Sarah in
     - 3: Guak & Sarah
     - 4: Mug's intro (Death needs to wind Mug up)
     - 5: Muichoo + Baby (Muichoo is playing cooking games w Baby)
     - 6: Lesson btwn Sarah & Baby
     - 7: (+) Muichoo + Sarah heart-to-heart talk (Baby plays w Mug)
     - 8: (+) Baby + Mug story
     - 9: Sarah + Guak
     - 10: Mug + Muichoo + Baby
     (and we got interrupted...)
     (p/s: (+) means additional scenes that weren't included in original script)
     
     
   • Character's disability:
     - Sarah: Neck casted
     - Guak: Spasms; twitches at times
     - Baby: Deformed hands & cannot walk properly
     - Muichoo: Wheelchair bounded
     - Mug: Has to be winded up to be alive
     
   
   
6. 23rd Feb TSD lesson:
   
   • Miss Norzian's words of enlightenment:
     - CONCEPT: We need to know how it LOOKS (set, light, sound, costume, etc.)
     - What's our personal angle to this play?
     - Purgatory = waiting. So, check out different waiting places! Examples: Bus interchange, restaurants, airport, etc.
     
     
7. WE NEED TO WATCH "DEAD LIKE ME" AND OTHER RELATED MOVIES.
   

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee we all can do it! Gambate!


XOXO
MUICHOO