this is how its done

This week we had lots of amazing adventures we started with a great play which was performed by a group of pros in Peruano Britanico theatre. This play resembled a kitchen in which actually food was cooked though professional chefs weren’t required. All the actions were done in this kitchen were social offense, fights, discussion and of course love problems were issues of every day. This play transports us into a world in which orders are taken at every minute but the product is send in half an hour or were the chaotic action work to create an atmosphere of tension which is released through a character that seems gay or through the discussion of certain characters over the region of the world they’re from.

We also had a very busy week in terms of The Play which basically takes the whole of our strength, physical and mental, and which you might think is useless but i really love it. This week we continued with the games and usual impros which are design to see the ability of each of the actor which then helps as feedback for the people in charge of the characters to place each actor into their best suited character. Other games that we used were those in which you may develop your skills such as controlled scenes that are basically done because of the need to know if you are able to follow instructions and develop from basic ideas.

In terms of in class jobs we are now doing a new research project. In this time we were able to pic any theatre practice and for this i picked Celts tradition which originates from the irish and gives origin to the Halloween celebration that in that time was more of a celebration to dismiss bad spirits in that day. As the theatre tradition of the Celts is very old i actually had to base my research in myths, legends present in the history that we know about the Celts and using books such as Ancient cultures are the ones that i need to make a deeper research.

Finally this week ended in a 3 hour derby in schools theatre to decide production tasks and outline of the play In this time i will be in charge of the props to be used and my compromise is to do a cost schedule to have an organised play at my possibilities.

We were able to discuss the vision Kenzo had  for the various scenes and we were able to discuss what are we suppose to look for in each scene. I will be opening this idea very soon but for now I’ll live you with the suspense. 

ARE WE DONE YET? HELL NO THIS IS JUST THE BEGINING

How are plays made? Are they supposed to just appear by themselves? or are they supposed to be meticulously sketched?

I do believe plays are to be made and not just to appear but i don’t think the best way to create them is to have a real perfect sketch. This year in IB theatre course i am learning how a play is produced and made.

The perfect play recipe:

Step 1: Have stimuli and develop from that point and on (brain storm)

Step 2: The vision of the play which basically tells you, how you want the play to look like.

Step 3: You’ve got to create a concept which is now the sum of all the ideas that you have collected in between the vision and the stimuli.

Step 4: For everything you do in live you have to be able to control such thing so then the rules are essential for this thing to work. The game is that, is works as the rules that you’ve got to work on.

This is how, step by step, a play is created. After this steps have been completed, and after you have developed at its maximum potential this ideas then, and only then, you can proceed with the creation of your outline (It is a kind of book which tells you what will happen in each scene.

All these will lead you to the perfect play, the only thing you need, to complete the perfect play recipe, is a lot of hard work, some drops of sweat, a spoon full of optimism and finally you have to invest most, if not all of your Saturday mornings to slowly stir our mix.

Of course this is not a recipe that you can do alone, this is a group work and so that would be, to me, the basis of the work.

Have you ever been to a play that has made you be so furious that you were about to just stand up and leave? Well that happened to me on Tuesday the 13^th when a school theatre trip took me all the way to the centre of Lima to watch......... Vedova in Lumine. Seriously it was so horrible that I was in my nerves the whole of the play, and it was not because of the slow music or for the fact that it seemed to be a dance more than a performance but indeed, it was the style of that play that was really what i didn’t liked.

In terms of acting and the actual performer, I do think she made a good job because it was a heel of a difficult acting piece but the fact for which i really respect her the most is because even when she knew that the play was a piece of crap, because believe me i am 100% sure she knew it was crap, she continued with the herculean task of performing THAT in front of and audience which might then could have given her their opinions about how stupid she was to appear in that play.

I want to emphasise that it was not the scenes in which she danced with a black puppet or the part in which she was raped by a recyclable puppet but it was the whole idea that i despised.

This is basically how, to me, a bad play is made.

First week of Theatre

This Year Im starting my first year Theatre IB course, and since im not dead yet I believe im doing rather well by now.
It has been just 2 clases and although it seems not muh, we already have started working on the school play and on the Project for "How to pitch well infront of a class.
I guess i cant take into an account all thge work that is just nearby(2 Play reviews next week) to say that thats certainly too much work for this little time but I guess thats how it is done so........

I am really looking forward to this experience and I hope this experience is looking forward on me.