Play review comparison

This thursday the 25th we had a three way unipersonales presentation in the school theater. We had first Hayde Caceres, a very renounced actress in Peru, then, a cuer2 presentation with Chiara and "lo mas resistente" and finally the third and last, a 1 hour presentation by xxxx Grosso, an invited argentinian actress.
Hypothesis: what is the most important part for the creation of a uni-personal.
I would like to start with the one I enjoyed the most, Hayde Caceres 's "la madre" which showed a very lomg production and training process to achieve such a wonderful connection between the actress and the audience and to create a link and a relationnin which the audience was totally inmersed in what was happening. The elements she used were just a briefcase and some clothing, acompanied by a dash of rum used to enhance the atmosphere of  relief and distress throughout the play. She presented a play in which a cabaret or entertainer, who has reached a certain age in which she cant get a contract, is send to do a presentation saying she was a transsexual and talks about her life and issues.
Th main instrument for this performance was the excellent use of the voice which Hayde has mastered to perfection and then the ability to mantain a certain connection with the audience that allowes her to express a  story of deception and  harshmoments followed by a life revelation and a scream of forgiveness. Another key feature fir this presentation was the high rythmical interaction and the fast response created by e reactions in the fake audience and through the actress proyected to us.
After this we saw the first propor unipersonal, cuer2 presented "lo mas resistente" which to me was the most incoherent and non related play of them all. It not only lacked precision and relation with the audience but was also very difficult to understand without giving into account the fact that it was very monotonus. Chiara showed a lot of energy and a very intense process in which she worked towards the use of the body and together with the simbolism of e ropes and book she used to performe, she was aboe to loose the connection with the audience, the only parts in which I felt somewhat intrigued by the performace was when she threw e only 3 phrases of the play, which seemed very profound, but still very difficult to process and to get a grasp of the whole idea of the play, you had to inmerse yourself in a lot of analysis because once agaij it was not a self explanatory idea of performance. The basic idea was of a women that has a certain connection with her old house and she gets into a kind of  frenesi in which she feels trapped by the memories of the past and the people, because she seems to represent more than one person, that dont allow her to loose free of all perjudicm and link.
Finally xxxxx Grosso presented a very unusual type of play which showed the great difference between the Peruian conventions and those from the Argentinians. She was a woman that explained her life through a series of situations that involved 3 different stages of life, first the one in which she feels love for the first time, then a imaginary son situation followed with the ending of her first marriage, then she falls again, this time for a me kind of guy that was able to comply with all what she needed, in terms of desires i mean, and finally there is a trip to Greece which i really couldnt understand very well.
She presented herself with 5 portions of clothing or elements that were related to each of the stages of life. And in a performance separated in 5 scenes she was able to atract our attention, even after we had seen the first 2 plays and we very mentally tired, she was able to produce mixed opinions and apreciation in between us whcih some appreciated more than others.
Overall i think that there were very clear preferences towards the most conventionsl and word spoken one of the plays which was the one called "La madre" and then the other fall by there own into certain position to which in my opinion was followed by the one by the argentinian actress and finally came "Lo mas resistente" , that even if showed a very good level of energy and body expression through intense preparation, was the most difficult to understand and process and for those reasons, together with the monotonus issue, was the one i enjoyed the most.
As we can see from the presentations, it is not only the process that takes in place for this kind of presentations to be good but also, it is in some ways, the actor or actress, the story and the direction that takes place for it to occur.

PPP Andean Theater

Description:
The PPP for the Andean theater presentation is a fundamental part of the course in the IB because at the end of the 2 year course, we will have to present a final PPP from a stimuli given by the IBO and so we have to develop all sorts of analysis and interpretation skills as well as the necessary ability to develop this piece of art which has to have all the investigation and development process of the stimuli.

Analysis:
The whole idea of the PPP seems a little bit to much because well we are used to be judged by our results, but in this opportunity what the IB wants is to see the process of our work and how we develop our ideas other than just looking at our results which means that we have to take into account all the mistakes and all the different ideas we have into the PPP. We have to discuss over and over again so that we can go deep inside the best ideas. Ideas only develop well if you work on them, you have to spin them around your head so that you can see through the vague but shiny ideas to those which are really possible but maybe no that well looking.
It is a process that you have to pass through if you want to actually create a play because not all good ideas can really be done, most of the people think that their ideas can be achieved but experience and actual practice performance can tell you the real difference between a probable and a possible idea.

Connections:
When someone tries to get concrete ideas, those that can be used, he has first to try them as much as he can. It is only through mistakes that you get to the final answer and that's why i compare this PPP with a recipe. As you can see, recipes arent always there to work, there are some that dont or just some that you cant understand and so you cant complete them as they should, that's how ideas work, you just have to try until you get somewhere.

Evaluation:
In the beginning i thought that PPP had no real meaning because it was based on judging the process which is nonsense but now i can see that it prepares us to have a much deeper view on the analysis measures that we can work on.

Idem 2

Description:

This week we continued with the Andean performance and we discussed certain in-conformities that we had with respect to the central idea that was, to some extend, copied from another performance from years before. As I said last week, some members were missing the other week and so they, who came with fresh ideas, decided to help us with the performance and the new idea developed was the Kiosk and the rise in prices from year to year, which again suited the desired type of topics and the audience would easily relate to that.

Analysis:

The New analysis for the stimuli based in the idea of the prices in the Kiosk and how they rise each year in food and drinks like Coke which is 2.5 soles or like chicken which is 4.5 soles which to all is too much. We thought of this idea because people in the past years, or students at least have always discussed this rises in prices that to us have no sense. The idea of the whole performance is to present something that relates directly to the issues that the school students, our audience, are aware of.

We want to include in our performance the conventions of the Entrada, the syncretism and the Guerrila ( rapto de la Imilla -> Salim) that to us were the most important and impressive to see and to perform.

In terms of the places we are going to use I think that the Entrada should be through the main rock path in the football courts and then directly to a dance and protest in front of the Kiosk. Then we should continue with the kidnap of Salim and run towards the Churchill patio because of the space (big spaces more actions) and then the Bosque should be as we wanted in the top of the main door to the theater. We chose this locations because we want to give the dynamics that the actual performance has and then we need space so that the whole school can approach and see. We need some fabrics to put in the patio so that the space is reduced to a more intimate diameter so that we wont be lost in the crowd.

Connections: 

The prices in the Kiosk -> Syncretism

The school problems -> Audience

Big spaces and fast pace -> The Kiosk, the Patio and the dancing

Evaluation:

In my opinion our main problem is to see if the people are going to attend to the celebration and how to get their attention. We have proposed many options like warakasos in the corridors and live music which seems the best option to me because as well as it is a convention, it is a good way to make the people notice us.