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.