Stages type two and what matters: Saba's standup

Description:
This week we had an encounter with a rather unusual type of theater, Santiago, a member of our IB theater group, invited us to watch his stand up comedy performance at La estacion in Barranco. We were in for a very good surprise when we arrived because there were more than 30 friends there waiting to see this impressive performance.
The idea of this presentation was to close an intensive course o stand up comedy and santiago was basically the best of the presentation with a lot of sound in the form of claps and whistling.

Analysis:
What i enjoyed the most in the performance was the dynamic and highly rhythmical performance which made me think in what i really want to see and get when i go to watch theater. I enjoy very much when i get engaged and what better than having a comic presentation to get this characteristic of theater. I loved the way in which the audience including me was very patient and had a lot of positive energy about what was going on. I think that if we can portray all of this characteristics that make a performance of that type into our own theatrical presentations, we will be able to get the audience the entertainment they want.

Connections:
I got the same feeling as when i go to watch usual One act plays and i am already prepared to laugh and that is precisely what i do, this is what i want in a school performance, the predetermination to like it and the mind prepared to understand it whatever it is.

Reflection:
It is very difficult to transmit the feelings from a regular comic presentation to a more dramatic performance when the audience has to use more imagination and engage in a deeper type of thinking to get the idea, game and special characteristics of a Play.

The importance of the unexpected

Description:

The unexpected is what might give a play a different appeal than others usually do. People like surprises and sometimes we enjoy being ready for them but without really knowing what is going to happen. The idea is that a play has to have something to engage you with and if it is not a comedy then it cannot be only the text and so usually the plays that lack in text use a lot of characterization or other characteristics to get your attention. In this case we went to watch "Desarraigos" from a Colombian theater group that had a very clear characteristic it was very monotonous, very much like "lo mas resistente", i felt almost the same feeling of knowing what is going to happen next because as it was a very repetitive play then you almost got the idea of what was coming.

Analysis

 This of course created a feeling of charged atmosphere that made me feel as if i was watching something over and over again and it was obviously tedious.

The idea of a play in terms of a business is to entertain the audience so that the money they payed is well paid and then they tell other people to go and basically this is the cycle. In this case it had a very important degree of scenery and 2 very good actresses in terms of voice and stage presence but they seemed more of singers than actual actors. I can say that this play is created to make the people that produce it and act it to have a good time but the simple fact is that this is too complicated to understand and therefore dull at its most.

Connections

The week gave us the opportunity to read a play done 100 years ago in the German expressionism time which treated themes from this century and that has to mean something. I think that  Expresionists had a very open mind and that they understood the liberal way of thinking at its most. The themes presented in the play made me thought of current daily life were that story of a girl dying from a bad abortion practice is almost the story of every day and that the idea of sex and the fact that older ideals of conservatives protected youngsters from knowing about this made it more difficult for them to take care.

Reflection:

I could understand the importance of engaging the audience in what you want to present and that without it the audience will feel that it is not worth it.

The ideas might be the same although the times have changed, Spring awakening, portrayed this ideas but with the frame of thinking from people in that time, the question would be was it better that way or is ti okay the way it is now?