Physical theatre

Monday 8th September 2014

This was our first lesson on physical theatre. We started to discuss what the definition of physical theatre. We came up with physical theatre is using your body to make something else such as a fridge etc. Physical theatre can not just be still it can be moving as well. For some people physical theatre is stepping out side your comfort zone. Physical theatre is reshape or reform yourself to something else. Physical theatre came from the Greek theatre in 400 BC. We then watch the documentary on the theatre company called Frantic Assembly. One of the exercises in the documentary was to run across. This is our stimulus to come up with someone that includes dynamics that are powerful. My group came up with war with tree soldiers and the others were a gun. Lewis was the first soldier. As the soldiers went the gun shot was fired. The gunshot was the three people shouting 321. Once the gunshot was fired the gun was moved in unison upwards. The soldiers would then react. Lewis reacted slowly to the gunshot. Joe was next. The feedback was that Joe's death was more naturalistic.He was naturalistic in the way that he was trying to help the other soldier which look like they were friends. Then Brandon came in to thew scene and died over the top a little bit. The piece was repeated 3 times. The first time was with no music. This gave us a story behind the scene that was being watched. The second time was a calm piece of music which led to a different perspective of the piece. The music added more emotion to the piece because it led to a story. The third time was a upbeat piece of music which gave another story to the piece. Overall the feedback was mixed with good bits and bits for improvement. The improvement was to work more on the gun and maybe reload it by changing positions to make it more interesting.

Monday 15th September 2014

For our homework we found out more information our Frantic Assembly such as the writing method, policy and origin and background etc. Adding to that we watched two of Frantic's work called "Stockholm" and "Lovesong". Stockholm was more violent and tense but sometimes the dialogue was comedic. However in "Lovesong" was a lot more gentle and happy and was flowing was the story whereas "Stockholm" wasn't as clear in the story line.