Evaluation

This picture shows how realistic we tried to make our performance such as having the audience on a list and ticking them off as they entered 'The Nerve Meter' we made the club feel exclusive as people where only allowed in one by one and was placed in certain seats. I feel it made the audience wonder whats going on a physically involve them in our piece.


 I loved the idea of having the name of each play or for the audience each groups fear in a balloon as it gave this type of atmosphere in the room as none of the actors or audience knew who was performing next therefore the reactions to when the balloon was being pop was more honest. I also liked the fact we had an audience member pop the balloon as it had them physically involving themselves in our piece making them feel like they had a sense of control in what is happening inside the club.

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With the music playing and everyone getting into their position on the block I felt drew the audience in as it had some type of story through still images there was not a part of the block that you would not be able to get some type of story out of it. The different levels used and facial expression really linked well to the type of clubbing atmosphere we wanted to create for the audience.


Giving the audience shots of lemon juice links well with the theory Artaud has that everyone has a deep darker desire meaning there is more to what meets the eye.



The different types of reactions to the characters reaction to finally facing their fears some people screamed while others laughed this all gave a vocal insight to the type of people they are this was very interesting to watch.

 I have loved experimental term so much I find it very sad that it has to come to and end I feel this term has really pushed me as an actor as well as a person since I have had to remove myself from comfortable situations and live in the moment.

Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud(1896–1948)

Was a french playwright poet actor and theatre director he was born in Marseille France to Euphraise Nalpas and Antoine Roi Artaud both his parents were natives of Smyrna which was a native Greek city he was also greatly affected by his Greek ancestors. When he was 4 years old he suffered from severe case of meningitis which gave Artaud a nervous, irritable temperament throughout his teen years. He also suffered from neuralgia(a pain in ones nerves), stammering and severe moments of clinical depression which was treated with opium which lead to a lifelong addiction. 

He is commonly known for his book ' Theatre of cruelty' in which he stated that by cruelty he meant not extreme sadism or causing pain but just as often a violent physical determination to break the false reality he believed that text has too much value for what it is worth and that theatre should be made up of a unique language a halfway mark between thought and gesture. Artaud described it as spiritual in physical terms and believed that all theatre is physical expression in space.

The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.

Masks

A group picture of my workshop group playing around with mask

This is such a fun exercise you really get to leave your comfort zone and do crazy things which really links well with the whole idea behind experimental where you experience new and strange things.

 

Hanging torches

 

Torches should be used in our play as the actors will be controlling the lighting of our piece we will be able to spotlight certain moments and since it is going to be darker it will give off the club like affect.

Questions?

Everyone connected like puppets

An idea was to have everyone connected like puppets on a string to the nerve meter or make the nerve meter a person who has loads of strings coming out of them. It will look very abstract but also eye pleasing for an audience member to have a person standing in the middle of the room with loads of strings coming out of them and connecting all around the room will make it look like teh audience is in a spiders web and the nerve meter is the spider.

The idea for our piece