Final touches

Its hard to think that people have this easy concept of theatre and in the other hand the teacher thinks that were are being spoiled towards him bu the real fact is that non of those is true. We have a lot of pressure on us because all the people used to see the Newton play as the best and when they do frankly i dont know what to do apart from laugh and look around or change from topic because really in this moment i dont think it is that good.
The comedy is what we use as glue for all of the plays we have produced for the one act play and we use this as the basis of all the work because it makes us enjoy the play and the rehearsals best. Its important for us to like what we are doing because of course it depends on how we take it to do it better or worst.
 We are giving the final touches to the One act play because it needs 2 things rythm and fast entrances. It is easy to see how if these work well instead of having a dull and slow play, we have a dynamic performance easy to understand and enjoy.
The fact is that as th classes come and go we are trying to put a faster atmosphere to the play in terms of direction in which we want it to go. We need to get to a benchmark that is set for all the the newton plays which is just to have a play that is easy to understand  and fast breaking so that the audience keeps hooked to it.
The dinamism is what separate us from the other plays because well they aren't always bad or horrible to watch but they are lacking the sparkle that is this dynamism that allows the audience to engage in our play and to make it entertained for the people.

People pay for the plays to get 2 things first the actual entertainment and then the comfort that their play is the best they could possibly see but also for us the actors the fact that we are producing this play for a paying audience makes us work more towards this and not just allow them to go and have a crapy play.

Other Proffesional plays such as the ones we go to see have a different benchmark sometimes tell something or at least make us understand a point but it is not an entertainment or a reason for us to have a laugh, it depends on the type of play you are producing, the ideas that you will use and how this will relate to the audience you are expecting
One act plays cant be dense comparing it to lets say Yerma because the audience is not ready for something like that, they are not prepared for watching a play that will teach them or will talk about a social criticism but for something that will entertain and a performance that would be suitable for school audience which might not even have knowledge on theatre and are just there to have some fun. It is understandable then the difference between the topics of the One act play and lets say the School play.
Why do we always use comedy?
Well easy. It is for the sake of entertainment and simplicity, and then why are all the School plays so magical well it is the same concept, because the audience is all school pupils and so the play has to be easy to get even for the small kids. Which actually was a big mistake in this years because we had a plot that was intresting but complex and most of the feedback were that students couldnt understand the play.

As you can see it is easy to note the difference between plays that are for different audiences and how the audience you receive affects the themes and the wording and the spectacle effect that we the actors give. If you watch the one act play this wednesday the 5th then you will realize how dynamics and entrances are needed to make a play last less in the mind of the people due to it being easy to diggest.

Yerma and Andian

Yerma does it mean something? Does it create any effect? Any response?

It is supposed to be that humans can reproduce and the men who cant have or are supposed to be badly looked around the traditions in the world. Yerma is a play performed to express the feelings of the oppressed sterile women of the andian world. Why? Well it gives the context of a place were the main economical action comes from the agriculture and farming. It tells the story of a couple that cant procreate and have to live with the bad looks of the people in the town.
I think the idea of the effect it has on them is very well presented but the way in ehich they do it makes a very  lain and very slow play.
Still it had a great plot which not only developed well but was simple, concise and very easy to understand. In terms of acting the display they made was fantastic, they had good voice, response, i specially loved the technique of the conscience and the off voice that intensified the feelings and enhanced the tension in the atmosphere.
One thing i could relate to our play is that we used as well as them the idea of people representing more than one character and so it was easier for me to see this changes without loosing track of what happened.
The use of the space felt i bit much to me, the stage was big enough to use the audience corridor though it did help the dynamics but it was very difficult to see what was happening there.

We could also study a little bit more of the Andean theatre in our class lessons, we had the second test on the readings we made and we are starting to understand better how the celebration of the virgin works, not only the conventions but the concepts and what you can find inside such as the cultural background that come back with the "Taki" and the idea of uncovering their own celebration with that of the virgin.
The origins of the virgin and what the myths say about how did she appeared in the town of paucartambo.
It was impressive to know about the logistics and the preparations that people have to do to create this from practically scratch.
It is an awesome celebration and what i enjoy the most is the way in which the people involve in the performance. It is like they do it mechanically but with such energy and such convictions that it seems like it was more than 200 years ago when it was created.

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its   people."

This resumes it all. Just think about it.

The oral tradition

It is hard to believe that there is people  that think that oral language is a variation of written language while the truth is that oral language is the basis of all knowledge that we have. It is through oral language, through the use of your voice that peole have expressed during the last 2 or more centuries and the need of written language is only due to those who are trying, without a reason, to "understand what is beneath the spoken words", what do they mean and what do people want to say with what they are saying. Without knowing that what people want to say is plain, there is no more to it than what you con understand and there is no need to explain, just to feel and understand it yourself. That is the beauty of oral language, that you just understand what you can and if you cant then it is because you don't want to do it.

For this long week we got the readings for our culture test on Tuesday and i certainly thought it was a bit too much, even if we have a lot of time, we don't like to do this kind of stuff. However i started reading this manuscripts and i manage to like it just a bit but i did so i mean they are good nd they teach you interesting things and i liked them. Their depth in terms on knowledge of topics that people don't usually relate to is impressive and how they manage to distinguish between pure crap and useful information is great but above all it is the way in which they portray it that makes it so easy to understand (Oral literature was awful and i didn't understood a word of it).


The one that talked about oral tradition in cultures is the one that i related too the most and it is because it showed i part of me in it. The fact is that i really think that written literature sucks and i much prefer to listen than to read but even a book that explains the lack of importance that oral language has is also to be read and so increases the lack of importance or shall we say the super high importance that written literature has acquired over the past years. It is highly impressive and even impacting how the written literature is far more important than the oral part of language and how the disciple has overtaken the master to a point this master has almost extinguished at its pure level because we still talk through the phone or skype, video calls and even face to face but even this blog is written, Facebook is written and basically every record of life that appears to be stored is written so then what happens to the orals, they have been shrank to the idea of personal communication and mental development, no more. Words are remembered, and words are forgotten at the same time you just have to choose between writing them of saying them and then look what lasts longer in heart and in time.