Love and Information
7. Message: Mya and Phill
11. dream : Mya and diamond
19. shrink: Mya and diamond
26. fate; Mya and Micheal
29. Facts: Mya and Ben
Last scene- Wedding video: everyone
Love and information is a contemporary play by Caryl Churchill. The structure of the play is episodic, and consists of 29 short scenes that are unrelated but all have similar themes that reoccur.
The most similar thing that my mind can relate this play to is Netflix's 'Black Mirror'. In black mirror every episode is a separate short story within the season.
I enjoyed the hands off approach our teachers had with this unit, especially as this play can be very open to interpretation, it was up to our imagination to make our groups performance original. After the initial whole class read through, we also got to chose which scenes we wanted to do, meaning everyone chose a scene that they could personally relate to. I chose Message, Dream, Shrink, Fate and facts. The whole group will perform wedding video as a ensemble.
Message is a duolouge between 2 people with clear criminal instincts. However one does have higher status than the other and the character with lower status seemed to be more reasonable, so we interpreted it as if me and Phill where the good and evil voice in a terrorists head. I played the devilish voice and Phill played the angelic voice.
Dream Is a lunch time conversation in the park between 2 middle aged female office workers. They work in a very male dominated environment and their girly gossips are the only escape they have. During the scene my character explains how a dream i had convinces her her husband is cheating on her, and shes had enough of his nasty ways so they decide to explore their sexuality with each other.
In shrink I played a therapist who was a little closed minded and clearly didn't enjoy her job.
In Fate i played a physic fortune teller at a fair ground.
In facts i played a quiz show presenter.
During rehearsal i dedicated equal time on each scene with my multiple partners. Only until a week before the show did we perform the whole show chronologically and gave each other feedback.
During this time I found it interesting to see how the other group had interpreted the same dialogue into different scenarios.
We collaborated with the Technical theatre student during this project to, they came in and watched over a few of our rehearsals and took requests for production from our group. Then programmed our requests on tech rehearsal.
One member of our group done us a huge favour and typed and printed a running order for backstage.
We all agreed that costumes would be too difficult to do because everyone played multiple characters, so we came to the conclusion that performing in actors Blacks would be best.
Our first performance ran smoothly besides the fact that a chair broke during the 2nd scene, but we managed to improvise our way around it and replace the chair in between scene change overs.
I really enjoyed this project as majority of the scenes I chose I connected to on a personal level. However I did struggle to throw myself into the deep end and fully take on the role as the fortune teller in 'Fate'. From this experience I realised that its important to fully become the character you are playing; physically, mentally and vocally. During 'dream' I really found my inner monologue for the character I was playing and I would read through the scene before I slept hoping I could actually witness the same dream my character explains.
Our second performance ran better than the first, no set was broken, and the whole cast gave their full energy. Unfortunately the examiner will be watching the video of the 1st performance.
I really enjoyed this unit simply because of how open to interpretation it was, and I feel keeping the costumes, set and lighting to a minimum helped leave it up to the audience's imagination.
11. dream : Mya and diamond
19. shrink: Mya and diamond
26. fate; Mya and Micheal
29. Facts: Mya and Ben
Last scene- Wedding video: everyone
Love and information is a contemporary play by Caryl Churchill. The structure of the play is episodic, and consists of 29 short scenes that are unrelated but all have similar themes that reoccur.
The most similar thing that my mind can relate this play to is Netflix's 'Black Mirror'. In black mirror every episode is a separate short story within the season.
I enjoyed the hands off approach our teachers had with this unit, especially as this play can be very open to interpretation, it was up to our imagination to make our groups performance original. After the initial whole class read through, we also got to chose which scenes we wanted to do, meaning everyone chose a scene that they could personally relate to. I chose Message, Dream, Shrink, Fate and facts. The whole group will perform wedding video as a ensemble.
Message is a duolouge between 2 people with clear criminal instincts. However one does have higher status than the other and the character with lower status seemed to be more reasonable, so we interpreted it as if me and Phill where the good and evil voice in a terrorists head. I played the devilish voice and Phill played the angelic voice.
Dream Is a lunch time conversation in the park between 2 middle aged female office workers. They work in a very male dominated environment and their girly gossips are the only escape they have. During the scene my character explains how a dream i had convinces her her husband is cheating on her, and shes had enough of his nasty ways so they decide to explore their sexuality with each other.
In shrink I played a therapist who was a little closed minded and clearly didn't enjoy her job.
In Fate i played a physic fortune teller at a fair ground.
In facts i played a quiz show presenter.
During rehearsal i dedicated equal time on each scene with my multiple partners. Only until a week before the show did we perform the whole show chronologically and gave each other feedback.
During this time I found it interesting to see how the other group had interpreted the same dialogue into different scenarios.
We collaborated with the Technical theatre student during this project to, they came in and watched over a few of our rehearsals and took requests for production from our group. Then programmed our requests on tech rehearsal.
One member of our group done us a huge favour and typed and printed a running order for backstage.
We all agreed that costumes would be too difficult to do because everyone played multiple characters, so we came to the conclusion that performing in actors Blacks would be best.
Our first performance ran smoothly besides the fact that a chair broke during the 2nd scene, but we managed to improvise our way around it and replace the chair in between scene change overs.
I really enjoyed this project as majority of the scenes I chose I connected to on a personal level. However I did struggle to throw myself into the deep end and fully take on the role as the fortune teller in 'Fate'. From this experience I realised that its important to fully become the character you are playing; physically, mentally and vocally. During 'dream' I really found my inner monologue for the character I was playing and I would read through the scene before I slept hoping I could actually witness the same dream my character explains.
Our second performance ran better than the first, no set was broken, and the whole cast gave their full energy. Unfortunately the examiner will be watching the video of the 1st performance.
I really enjoyed this unit simply because of how open to interpretation it was, and I feel keeping the costumes, set and lighting to a minimum helped leave it up to the audience's imagination.
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