5/5/11 to 13/5/11
we have now got in two lovely first years to do our sound and tech which is great because when we are not running in and out to control the sound and lights it makes us able to have a really smooth run. we showed kevin our potentially complete performance.
Kevin notes! 5/5/2011
Taking shape, nice shape
Main issue -> making connections across us all
Crampness of space
Feels like a group of individuals not a group working as a whole
Look and acknowledge each other
Whys and therefores?
Every object has a journey like us.
Piano stoll maybe come from outside.
Rufaro kicking gary WHY…with our journeys need to be aware?
Beginning works well better when natural – working as part of image.
Something staggered and busy… TOO BUSY AT ONCE… PERHAPS MAKE A POINT OF IT? – maybe stand as foursome R & G move (thinking time)
New line ‘small things’
Donna choking funny it works and connects later.
Rufaro uncle tom.
Have images in head when doing stuff.
Anna and lisa silent film lovely – let last longer
NOT HAVING TO GO TO BACK TO DO NOTHING!
Nice moments of just sitting.
PIANO (GLENN/GARY STOOL) MAKE THESE CONNECTIONS!!!
Find function of signs
Anna line… ‘love makes you useless at everyday tasks’, weave in more ‘bask in warmth’.
WATCH EACH OTHER AND LISTEN
Text is littered with things that people could make connections with and relate
Do a run where we are so conscious of everyone else (Record This)
Piano stool is out of place (Consider the objects on stage) Could bring the stool into the space.
Ruffaro kicking Gary, know why your doing it. Needs a reason, know your journeys.
Beginning works really well, don’t force the text.
Exiting from the beginning is to staggered and to busy all at once, could change this or make a reference to this.
Donna Choking and laughing good and important.
Ruffaro choking points towards vaudeville! (Nice little touches, think more about these touches)
Laughing on stools nice moment and breaks it!
The doo wop songs works well but change the song (Chesnuts roasting song)
Lisa and Anna running (silent movie) works really well, however it ends abruptly!
Likes Greenie doing nothing for a long time.
Be careful of text, sometimes falling into an improvise mode works and sometimes doesn’t, the jack jones bit I an example of not working, makes audience read into something that is not important.
Glenn Danny boy works well.
Feels really fluid now.
Map our journeys, always be aware of yourself and others.
Its nice not having the piano there, and having the stool where the piano should be is really nice.
Lisa and Donna/Gary sleeze/girls doing hair/ Ruffaro at front all needs looking at.
Stop using ‘I’ in the text, ‘he’ or ‘we’ will do fine. This opens the text up. Or could get rid of all the reference to a person.
Plant the gary text rose seed earlier. Probably put a rose in the space.
Get rid of west side story line. “Feel like I’m in (Charlie Chaplin Film)”
The signs feel misplaced and needs a lot of time to work on.
Look at the transitions of the curtain. Why is that person moving the curtains, make this more apparent and consistent. And why does that person stay behind the curtain. Probably hold up legacy placards.
Get a fab from the table. Provides imagaes in the text.
Greenie, Jess works well.
Plackards work, signs don’t.
Glenns text is a really nice moment. Gives a lot at a point when we need a lot.
Could be a connection between 2 people in Anna’s text. Map the journey
Nuttini dance at the end good. Donna laughing could come back in the nuttin dance.
Cane’s need to come in more, hit bums and stuff a bit more bumming in general. Everyone has to have a cane at some point.
The maths section doesn’t work. The numbers are important but not in a way that is explicit. The facts could be internal to the performer. Its not interesting to know and isn’t asking any conceptual questions.
Its not a piece about Chaplin it’s a piece about Us. Don’t forget this.
Plates on floor walking over them all turned up smiling. Should end with a plaphour of plates on the floor.
BE ANAL!!!!!!!!
Gary text multiplicity should be more than just seducing gary.
Kevin quote – “If its something your doing then you should be thinking about it before hand.
Do not assume what we have is correct and right.
honestly i was nervous t show kevin what we had because although i thought we were sitting on a piece that was fun to perform i didn't know how well put together it was, or how well it would look as a whole. Yes we have a lot of notes' but at the end of the day we have a week to perfect what we have, and I'm happy to say kevin liked it over all. he thought we made something that is quite special :D!!
what i took from what we still had to do is we MUST map our journeys in the space and develop subtle relationships with each other, We all individually went through our journey in the space physically looking at who we encounter and why. because there are eight of us we don't all interact all of the time, in fact some of us don't even look at each other from beginning to end. My relationships with jess and lisa are strong... and i also have quite a comical relationship with gary. other than that i may only glance at the others but they do don't play a huge part in my personal journey and i don't have a lot of significance in theirs.
I have been working really hard to do everything with a purpose and to know what I'm doing. there is something i do a lot in the piece and thats laugh. which when you consider the performance is set in a wake is fairly significant. I think my persona is that of someone who just wants to make light of the situation, i want people to laugh with me and celebrate Chaplin and ourselves but i can never quite escape the confines of the wake.
OH AND WE HAVE CURTAINS!!! CHEERS PHIL COLLIN'S
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