Acting: Antonin Artaud/Universal language of Theatre Lesson 10

Acting 5/5/15

This week we worked on our own scenes which was helpful as we weren't sure about what we're doing because we were talking about what we wanted to do but we felt we didn’t understand the play enough to create a piece of theatre. We worked on making our idea solid and developing the ideas we had from last week and the new ones we thought of.

We came up with using "putting on a t-shirt" to symbolize giving birth. We found that we would use our sound scraping to show the steps toward having a baby, we wanted to make the audience uncomfortable with hearing sexual noises. We then looked at what we could do with a baby grow, our first thoughts were that we could use fishing wire to make it like a puppet. We start by making it move around then dropping it suddenly to show that the baby has died. We wanted to Chance the buzzing to not just us saying buzz all the time so we decided to use chalk and drawing on the floor so we would look like we are mad because we hear this buzz.

We had a rehearsal this week and we developed some of our ideas, for instance we chance the part with the baby grow and we find that find that we improved the section because we started to reach in to touch the baby grow that was in the middle of the circle, and reacted like we have been burnt and found that doing this works better for the feel we wanted.

The theme we wanted for our piece was a ritual because we start in circle that has a pile of stuff in the middle. We know a ritual feel would work as artuad was influenced by ritual, like the Balinese dancers he once saw.

The strength of our work this week would be that we work together really well. We feed off each other ideas and listen to each other when we have ideas. I feel this group is strong in the way that we can say a really crazy idea and the group would just develop it, making it better.