Today we started work on our performance of ‘Alice in
Wonderland’, we did a warm up with Toby leading it and he made us do a tiring
warm up that he learnt from his brother in the army. It was very painful and
exhausting, but got us active and warmed up. We then arranged what characters
will be in our performance and any initial thoughts about them or the play
itself, I felt this got everyone to contribute their ideas and I got a feel of
how people wanted this to go. We worked out who got what part, through a system
which turned out wasn’t full proof as there were problems but we ended up with
everyone having a part that they weren’t sad about, I ended up as The Red
Queen.
We then started ideas on how we can start our performance
and how we get the audience from the main hall to the gallery theatre. We had
this idea that we kidnap the audience, blindfold them and bring them to the
gallery theatre. I had the idea that we sit them down with us sitting with them
and we start screaming so the blindfolded audience think that some of the
audience members are in trouble and panic. I felt this will definitely get a
reaction from the audience in an Artaud style so I feel we should use something
like this in our performance. However we decided to go down a different route
and freak the audience out with loud noises and sudden silence, which I also
think works well as while we are asking the audience the time it gets them
involved with the show and have an Artaud experience of performers yelling at
them. I like this opening as it starts our show with a bang and sets a tense
atmosphere.
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