Hello all
Following the feedback yesterday, there appears to be a group consensus that the concept for the show needs another overhaul. I've pitched an idea to Vanessa today; my apologies for not consulting the rest of you, but Vanessa has been insistent on coming up with something today as it is also the blurb deadline.
Here is the concept; the performing space, inc. audience space, is divided into three sections where a short mini-play lasting approx. 15 mins will take place with a small group of actors in each section. Each performance will be about the theme of debt, owing something to someone else but it's doesn't need to be financial debt; it could emotional owning something, owing a life, etc.
The groups would be as follows:
1) Bronya/Blade & Catia
2) George, Nicole & Paige
3) Gwen & Sophie
Radley would be a roaming character appearing in each mini-play as a recurring character - The Debt Collector; the being of order that all debts are paid. You'll all have the weekend to come up and get together to work out what narratives you want to show in each mini-play, which can be pitched and shown to Shaun, Vanessa and myself on Tuesday.
In the meantime, we now to come up with a blurb for the revised version of the show. Shaun and I are in college all day, working with Vanessa to try and get a blurb written. If anyone has any concerns or ideas for the blurb, then please come in to help us. It has to be completed today.
Thank you all very much.
Have spoken to polly too about this idea; it is potentially very exciting. Three mini plays, very intimate, naturalistic almost one to ones with small audiences. Maybe one is in a pawn shop, one is some other kind of debt/money exchange. Maybe you talk to the audience, maybe the audience have a decision to make. SHould you pay back? What will i spend my next tenner on? Maybe they have to talk to each other. What are my real debts? The trick will be to find interesting interconnections, truthful and understated acting, interesting quirky mini plots. maybe the pawn shop owner takes other things as collateral: emotions, time, love etc. as a structure, it puts weight back on devising mini stories and scenes. As an experiment, you are testing how the sound of all three plays interlinks but not distracts, what the audience wants to be questioned on etc...
ReplyDeleteJust as a note to those people concerned that everything that's been worked on and developed so far has been a waste of time and is now useless, that's the case; you can use the characters and scenes that we've created and worked on as a basis for the new scenes for you all to create, reworking them as stand-alone pieces rather than part of a long narrative.
ReplyDeleteyou mean that is not the case i think Alex. No certainly not, this is a different structure for stories that you have created and the freedom to create more.
ReplyDeleteYes, that was what I meant. It is not the case that everything worked on and developed has been in vain. Amazing how the loss of one little word can cause so many problems really...
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