Overview of the week - 20th - 23rd

Monday - Lecture

• Grotowski, Towards a Poor Theatre, 1938 – “What takes place between spectator and actor”.
• Peter Brook, An Empty Space, 1968 - "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone is watching him and that is all we need for an actor of theatre to be engaged".
• Peter Handke, Offending the audience, 1966 – “You are the topic…you are the centre. You are the reason why".
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Triangle
• Thrust seating - Ancient Greek Theatre
• Proscenium Arch Theatre (with wings) - What we call a "normal theatre set"
• Apron Stage - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
• In The Round - Colosseum
• Transverse Theatre
• Antonin Artaud, Theatre of Cruelty, 1938 - "The audience will believe in the illusion of theatre on condition they really take it for a dream, not for a servile version of reality".
• Blast Theory (Rider spoke - audience/people ride around London, listening and recording themselves and others as went along on their own personal journey)
• Punchdrunk/Dream Think Speak (The Drowned Man)
• Tim Crouch (The Author) - Storyteller

What is an audience?

• Spectator?
• Performer?
• Participant?
• Immersive?
• Passive?
• Interactive?
• Installation?

sTuesday - Body & Breath

• Keep stretching
• Try and do the splits up the wall 3 times a week to get a better result and to get your legs/muscles get used to it

Wednesday/Thursday

• Hop/Hep Song (Beat)
• Dances
• Group Work with Jakko & Ami creating movement for the Mead Hall
• 4 sets of 8 - unison
• 4 sets of 8 - cannon (build somehow)
• 4 sets of 8 - slow
• 4 sets of 8 - rhythm (sound)
• Drunken Dancing
• Learning dances/movement from other groups
• King & Queen inprovisation
• My head connected to Victors body for King & Queen
• Victor lifting me up
• Victor lying down with his legs up and I sat on him, so it looked like Victor's legs were mine, with me telling a story and Victor reacting with his legs
• Cody & I sitting on Victor's and Jakko's back (on all fours) - pretending to be our slaves/dogs/entertainers
• Jakko & Victor on Cody and I's back on all fours pretending to be their horses

Tasks:

• Find some jokes about Beowulf that we could incorporate into the show
• Try and write a song/s for the show