4. HOW DID THE WORK OF ESTABLISHED AND RECOGNISED THEATRE PRACTITIONERS, AND/OR THE WORK OF LIVE THEATRE, INFLUENCE THE WAY IN WHICH YOUR DEVISED RESPONSE DEVELOPED?
27.10.12
When working on scenes that we spontaneously improvised to generate a comical 'farce' production we used a lot of influence from work we had done in the other units. We had previously learnt about Max Stafford Clark's rehearsal techniques. I thought it would be good to apply his use of 'transitive verbs' to our devised piece as when creating a scene we had to think about the lines carefully and what would make the audience laugh if it was a comedy and why they would be saying it, it couldn't just be random, so applying the transitive verbs to our scrip was very helpful as we were able to think carefully about what we were saying it and why we were and what effect that person was trying to have on the person/ people they were saying the line to.
In rehearsals we were also inspired by Brecht's rehearsal techniques such as stepping in and out of character in the continuous play 'robbery' idea we came up with.
However, when we started devising the farcical performance the rehearsal technique of stepping in and out of character this helped us a lot as we were having to play many different characters one after the other so stepping into the physicality of what our character was positioned as was very helpful to get into the mindset of the different character quickly.
29.10.12
We were inspired by a play called 'cant pay wont pay' that we performed last year which inspired characters from the first continuous piece we had tried to create as well as the farcical production we were devising as we had to constantly think of new characters and the play had a few interesting ones we thought we interesting to base our ones on. The whole play 'cant pay wont pay' was also based on secrets which helped with the theme that we wanted to continue with, 'secrets'.
12.11.12
Our class went to see a farce performance called 'One Man, Two Govenors' to get some inspiration for possible scenarios and characters. We enjoyed the production greatly and thought most of the lines were comical genius. The use of inudndoes we thought was something to deffinately include a lot more of in our facrcial piece.
