Georgia and I read through the script together aloud the other night and had a few ideas for how we can adapt this and cut it down to something we can perform in May.
The characters are pretty out there, but once we read it through to Act two we could see how this could take shape which was really exciting.
As there are only 8 characters we discussed how we thought we could create characters. As most of the characters speech is presented in short monologes and Georgia suggested we could all work together to pick this apart and create new characters from some of the text we cut or adapt.
I really liked the idea of creating a few 'mole' like characters who could, in character, take part in the evening as a spect-actor, pretending not to be part of the play but trying to influence the audiences perception of who the murderer is, if we decide to not reveal the muderer to even ourselves before performance then the people trying to influence the audience could be doing so from their own interpretation of who they think the murderer is, whih could bring some interesting perspectives to the story.
Im really looking forward to playing with this!!!
Excellent well done. I have copy of the script so will read it over the weekend so we can discuss on monday after film makers. Great keep ideas coming about how to accommodate all cast. And we will have to try out not knowing like you suggested but i wonder if at least the person playing the murderer will need to know. If the audience ask you questions then maybe you all need to know? Let's see, exciting.
ReplyDeleteThe person playing the murderer would need to know, I think we could work it that the others dont? if the audience were going to ask questions we could rehearse question and answeres in characters during hot seating excersizes?
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