oz
hi, bubblers, just checking from sunny oz, new workshops sound very interesting, would love to join you guys with jools! was very sad to learn linda had died, she was very inspirational, and have fond memories...the box dance! Hi ian & mohammed justine and all, hope to catch a performance in the summer when i visit uk, keep up the great workxxx shaz
SUTRA craving
02/02/10: Would love to watch SUTRA. Looking forward to tonight. Sorry to see Ian depart - maybe he'll return for the next project. . . . Hello Sharon! How's Oz?
Egg-cellent
03/02/10: I think we're veering towards the notion of the egg being rather constricting. I suppose, inside, the sounds could be rather low-volume, as it was when we narrated stories. The tiny volume could indicate a small space. I now quite want to see the an Audience leaving their seats to move closer to watch egg-stories unfold! I suppose they don't HAVE to leave their seats - we just have to enunciate clearly from our nook. So, maybe not so low-volume.
This notion of using the whole body when enacting a picture (acting things out) is beginning to capture my imagination. It demands energy from the players. I found myself having to exert - throwing the curtain, doing Amanda's/Lee's shoal actions.
The transition from small spaces to big and vice versa may be something to look at.
Can't!
09/02/10: Can't find any text for tonight so far - but I've got a cross-word puzzle - now that's a space that needs to be filled - with WORDS! A Su Doku puzzle with NUMBERS! WE can all physically be WORDS and NUMBERS. Not too ambitious, surely!
Outdoors/Wolves
10/02/10: Hello faithful ones! Last night was another step in the right direction. The venue discussion was quite eye-opening - it should be quite original if we took our stage to outdoor places, like a shopping centre, underground rail tunnel or just outside Tate Modern. That might be a way to well entertain passers by - so a series of short sketches come to mind. Maybe an hour long chain of little stories - tales that finish after a couple of minutes. . . . The CEO presentations were instructive - I enjoyed Anne's one, and wished I could see the other group's. I propose (as ourageous CEO) that we stage our play on the Moon for all the Little Green Men to see!! . . . Quite enjoyed putting together our one-minute story - both leading the initiative plus listening to others had a meaning for me, last night. Our finished story made me THINK - and I quite relished my role as dumb but growling/howling wolf. The Tree Story was fun to watch - everyone in it looked so relaxed. Maybe both these stories should be presented in our FINAL Show.
Trip to see Random
We are running a trip to see Random by Debbie Tucker Green. Its being produced by the Royal Court to be performed in a shop in the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre. Adam saw the first production and was blown away by it.
We have got 30 tickets at 3 quid each, for 7pm on the evening of Monday March 15th.
Please contact the office to reserve a ticket.
Speech-less/Less speech
24_02_10: It was great to be back at the Bubble, after 2 weeks. Nice to see all the familiar faces - including newcomers. So . . . We're losing great chunks of speech for this latest project, eh? Come to think of it, masses of speech in a tunnel or some enclosed space like that could resonate well for the audience (+ performers.) Hmmmm . . . without big dialogues, we could be miming and silently acting (maybe shrugging!) with a lot of sound-making - grunting, groaning, yelling, screaming, laughing, crying, exclaiming, etc. Could be a bundle of fun!
I've got a Rotherhithe stage space - just opposite the Neptune Street bus-stop - a paved area (enclosed 'by walls') quite like a stage. Viva Bubble!
Who said that
02 03 10: Fell to thinking about last week's stuff last night. It was a lot of fun enacting 'the shrug' - I suppose we're headed towards doing some form of miming, action wihout too many dialogues, that sort of thing. . . . Trying to highlight an imaginary dot (I've done that exercise before) is not as easy as it sounds. It's hard to blend inconspicuously into the background . . . Punchinello is a clown or buffoon. A clown is bright in appearance, laughs, makes people laugh . . . and even cries? I wonder . . .
7 Tensions/ Places
03 03 10: All the places we looked at last night seemed to have their positive sides. Up a tree grabbed attention - we need to be acrobatic, to a certain extent, for that stage! Nudity, on a summer's day, is not to be ruled out! Bonding nude, for a kick! (It's not my very 1st preference!) Performing by the river is a nice prospect . . . We look at the imagined dots, and an audience might never think we're looking at dots - but something - something that floats, and a frightening thing (maybe a ghost.)
Quick story: A group of people enter a lift, spot dust motes floating about, suddenly get gripped by sheer fright at the sight of a ghost, feel relief when it vanishes. . . . The 7 levels of tension are all to be used liberally in depicting a piece. From the very turgid right up to sheer panic. I'm kind of dwindling away right now, no tension left in my fingers I'm afraid . . . (!)
Short Stories
09_03_10: Looking forward to tonight. . . . A train carriage, a lift or a taxi could be our stage. (Or my courtyard opposite the bus-stop!) . . . I like the idea of repeating a (short) story or, better, a collection of shorts, over and over, maybe getting different groups of audiences engaged (with what we perform.) . . . Here's another take on a known story: A group of ghost-hunters enter a room - they see dust-motes in the sunlight inside - then the windows shut abruptly, and ghostly figures emerge to their horror - but then the spooks vanish and there's relief all round . . .