puppetry of the?
these workshops have been very interesting. I hope we get to explore the different emotional states of being: shards(Peth speak). The idea of different aspects commenting on each other and having an independent existence was exciting and the precision aspect of the masks invigorating in that I tense emotional expression was intensified by reducing the dramatics, not sure the gallop worked, but the dance like wave and slowness some how helped. Justine are you up for some of this ? The work shops have been very different. Don't know how choir will do only a few of us at he sharing which is hard as som e of us scarcely know the songs.
good stuff
So much to get our teeth into, the show is ambitious and could be one of the best. Looking forward to it but also feeling challenged by the scale & depth of it.
Apologies to rest of choir
I cannot whistle. Or at least in tune. Martina we were very depleted today and I certainly felt I could've done better. Still time to practise!!
blue print
06/07/08: A blue-print for the play, at long last! Hope Jennifer's computer's stopped messing around! Eager to see the story on script. So . . . six clusters - six characters and their cluster-mates. Bath-water leading to a giant duvet. Something that indicates to the audience the level of sleep - stage 1, stage 2, etc. Interesting. Plus . . . liked the Aya/Pip/choir/band material. Keep up the good work!
chant
08/07/08: aa-lee-bee . . . aa-lee-bee . . . aa-lee-bee . . . aa-lee-bee . . . aa-lee-bee . . . aa-lee-bee . . . ad infinitum?!
Newbie
hello - i'm a newbie on here! Will tell the other ex-members of Karen's Thursday night group to log on. I missed Sunday's fitting but will be there wednesday, so not sure about all chanting yet! Hope I didn't miss Splat on Sunday... i've been training for the next round!
alibi
08/07/08: Er . . . we heard the chorus and band, and the chorus had us join in a sort of chanting - 'alibi' or 'aa-lee-bee.' The band gave us a snatch of atmospheric music. Jennifer Farmer, the playwright, gave us a plot - of the forthcoming script. There are six clusters around six main characters. At the outset, bathwater becomes a giant duvet. There's a character called DEATH and Mr Bean is also in the play! Hi, Newbie. Welcome to the message-board. You can say, that I actually live here!
Get a life two
I am glad that you are getting out regularly for the workshops. You and I spend to much time on here. Still maybe newbie's call to arms will generate some new blood?
A New Life - the Dream One
09/07/08: Greetings to all in the Bubble tribe! Developing confidence - still self-conscious! The script . . . smooths out some wrinkles. I went over it again, by my lonesome - and things are clearer. I like Malcolm - he's very kind, effacing and poetic. A little like me actually! (I AM kind and effacing y'know!) I love the fact that he makes friends by the end of unit 5. A happy ending. And . . . he/others kill the evil ones at the finis. All units have a connecting thread, seems like. All characters sleep, dream various dreams, then . . . awake. At the point of waking . . . they might indicate precisely that they indeed are now AWAKE. Good night, tribe!
Shakespeare innit!
11/07/08: Urban Dreams has wakened me from a sleep! How little I knew . . . Hamlet chides me: There are more things in heaven and earth, Muhammad, than are dreamt of in your philosophy . . . I quite likely do not HAVE a philosophy, let alone dream in one! I have to filch Malcolm's viewpoint - offer help to folk - even if they don't give a monkey's back! . . . Unit 1 and it is bed-time . . . Time . . . to sleep, perchance to dream . . . for in that sleep of death what dreams may come . . . Quite a few forthcoming, it is crystal. Voices say . . . I can't go to sleep/ Talking in your sleep . . . Macbeth chimes in: There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried, 'Murther!' Cycle 1 and Sara Jane, not murderous but passionate, does her piece . . . Later . . . George muses . . . He could, like Hamlet, . . . count himself a king of infinite space - were it not that he has bad dreams . . . oo dear . . . Rosie comes to his aid. I'm feeling sleepy. Over to Prospero: We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. Time for a napzzzzzzzzz ...