COSTUMES - IMPORTANT!

Hey guys, had a bit of a disaster tryin to find balaclavas, the stall by broadmarsh were out of stock, the army surplus store by notts county fc were out of stock and wouldn't be getting any in for a while due to weather conditions. I did however track some down in viccy centre market at £5 each. i spoke to Dan and made the decision to buy them. I haggled them down to £4.50 cos they'd only jst dropped the price from £6. Wud it be possible to bring another £2 for me on monday, i understand its more money than we planned but i had to make a decision and it was either these or wearin tights on our heads?!?

Also i manged to get black plimsole/canvas shoes which have WHITE rubber soles and trim from primark for £5, Dan agree's they will be suitable for the dance floor so i'm assuming this means we may be sticking to the original plan of black footwear. i'll bring them in monday for people to look and if we're happy with them we could send one of the tecchies or shika into town with money and shoe sizes whilst we rehearse (people still have option of borrowing jazz shoes off dance students)

I understand this all means investing a lot of money from our own personal funds for the show but on the other hand we've been given a pathetic budget for the show which unfortunately isn't covering costs for costume. Moaning about this hasn't got anywhere so I'm prepared to invest my own money into making this show look professional at the cost of a small chip in my loan thats come through - I hope you all feel the same :)

Our group, scene 5 rape scene

We wanted this scene to reflect what is happening in the girls sub-conscious, a conflict between lust and fear, pleasure and pain. We have played with power levels, sexual tension and violence.

Needs some more work and will run for approx 3.30mins.

Any comments welcome :)

Todays session? Wed 25th Nov

What did I miss today? Ben indicates that some progress was made!

Latest Task and Groups

All this week you will be working on a particular story which may involve only two or ALL members of the company. This will probably come from something previously discussed, but may be an entirely original story that the group has decided upon. If memory serves me well the groups are: -

Ben, Kelly, Chris, Angela
Lisa, Leah, Kayleigh, Shika
Amber, Lindsey, Andrea, Camille

You should break your story down into scenes in a particular order. Then look at how you might stage this. Finally start writing a script and acting it out (performing). We will share on Friday then give notes for further work with an aim to having something polished for the following Friday.

I suggest a moment or two to reflect on Friday afternoon followed up by off-site group research if anyone is available

Circle of Ideas 10/11/09

Hey Bloggers

This is for anyone who would like an update on today's session

• Flashbacks-re-tracing steps
• Uncovering layers of wallpaper (Angela's home)
• Sixth sense, what doesn't exist
• Pages turned-telling stories.uncovering layers
• voices-different tones and styles
• using words on different parts of the body for the audience to piece together a sentence
• Mental state taking a physical state
• Isaac and Abraham. Battle of conscience.
• Families and hidden states of secrets
• Resurrected death. Higher power
• Closets and skeletons
• Organ transplant. Taking over another persons traits
• Retracing steps of remembrance-a lot like Memento
• Physicality crap but mentally brilliant (Kelly's story)
• Good vs Evil. Heaven and Hell
• Mental illness
• Justification, gates of heaven. Asking the question. Where am i?
• Looking at higher powers, eg: government officials
• Green/red cards for audience member's, Judge and Jury (Linzy's idea)
• How we are programmed
• Story from Northern Light, 'Amber Spyglass'
• Research Alzheimer's
• Memory stick in at beginning out at the end
• Pass on memory stick in space
• Robots, Frankenstein's monster
• Cabinet of the cast waiting for their character to enter the stage area and perform
• Scientist making an experiment
• Advert 'we could sort out your life'
• Bodies as memory sticks. we are all data
• Time limit for stories. Time limit for human life expectancy
• Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Timer, Time limits
• Box, another box. Layers
• Trying to find memory
• Confessions using memory stick (another persons story)

MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER.. PLS WATCH

THE 3 FACES OF EVE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpJxZaaFv9U&feature=related

Someone mentioned this in the dicussions we had today and I thought i'd post this footage, it's rather intriguing. A lady who has 3 different personalities is being questioned/explored. There's a section 04:45 where each personality is asked to dress in what they would normaly wear. It's amazing just how these personalities are so diffrent I found it hard to believe at first!

POEM - THEY'LL NEVER FORGET

Poem is based on the task.. thoughts/imprints we believe people would have of us if we died.

She’ll never forget my Mickey Mouse pyjama suit
She’ll never forget my homemade soup
She’ll never forget, she’ll never forget
my warm hands upon her breasts
She’ll never forget my annoying laugh
That made her smile when she was sad
She’ll never forget the fun days out
She said that’s what life is all about

She’ll never forget my silence
That frustrated her for days
She’ll never forget my island
I talked about always

She’ll never forget me ever
Her only baby girl
She’ll love me till forever
She brought me in this world
She’ll never forget my runny nose
Or walking me to school
She’ll never forget my “Minnie” clothes
That made me look real cool.

He’ll never forget our movie nights
I’d hide behind the couch
The ones that gave that awful fright
He’d always laugh out loud

They’ll never forget our hide and seek
I was the best at that
They’d look for ours on that street
I always got there last