Video Links

Links to videos from last week;

News Report:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQYs4IShvLE&feature=youtu.be

Rehearsal 16th May: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbSAXzA2tDQ&feature=youtu.be

Claudio Suicide Choreography:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxOTpUSHLfE&feature=youtu.be

Line Bash Number 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4eVl3Bb73c&feature=youtu.be

Notes

Paperwork for this week

Props list so far

Rehearsal 29th April 2014

Help sheets

 I went through and highlighting the main parts, I found interesting. From the sheets Jonathan gaves us today in class. 

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I have a fully annotated version in my log book. 

Rehearsal 28th April

Chair dance

Here is a detailed breakdown of the chair dance for scene 2: 

Scene chart

22nd April rehearsal

All day rehearsal 9th April

To day set three clear objectives at the beginning of the day and these were:

1) to workshop the bedroom scene with the bed.

2) to explore the route and space for the piece.

3) to continue to workshop the bingo scene, adding in harmonies to song and rehearse in the space.

We then went on to look at the bedroom dance. Although we have lots of ideas for this dance we hit a

dead end today while trying to choreograph it. I think we found this challenging because we all of us had slightly different views on how and what we wanted to do in the scene. 

We also assigned everyone a scene to take ownership of for divising purposes in order to allow everyone to have a scene to lead in creating it; although this does not mean they create the whole scene, everyone has their impute just that persons word is final. Here is a list of who is leading which scene:

Scene 1: train- Jessie 

Scene 2: chair dance - all

Scene 3: blue coat - Becca

Scene 4: canteen - Amy 

Scene 5: bedroom - George

Scene 6: bingo - Megan

Scene 7: packing - Beth

Scene 8: sucicide - Jessie

Transitions: Nicole 

After deciding this we realised that the order of the scenes did not work as introducing the multipersonalites of Hero in the first bedroom scene was too early in the piece. We moved the dance to the packing scene after bingo because, in the bingo scene Hero is first brought back to Claudio, so she only appears to Claudio in his room after this.

We also looked at the bingo scene, adding the dance and harmonies. Megan had already worked them out, so it was only learning them. Although I am not in the scene as I am Hero, I leant the harmonies so I can help in rehearsals and support the less confident members of the group. Also I filled in for Becca, singing her part as she was not there. As well as working on the harmonies, I had an opportunity to explore the grid and the logistics of become hero without the audience knowing. 

Rehearsal 3rd April

Dictionary definitions for 5 states of grief

Songs, paintings, poems about 5 states

Where characters appear in play

When are the spoken about

Education packs

Act 1: Amy Beth

Act 2: Becca

Act 3: Jess and Meg

Act 4: Nicole

Act 5: George

Denial: Jessie

Anger: George

Bargaining: Beth

Depression: Becca

Acceptance: Megan

General 5 states: Amy and Nicole

Friend's on the Other Side

Here are the links to YouTube for the cut versions of Friend's on the Other Side. I have also linked the whole playlist of all the videos from all lessons so far I have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acIcEnOPM1Y&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCIZKvpNM_o&list=PLBXuN4O61x-3NEufeLPuuxDDzxnu5z7v4&index=6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF5KyEOxBps&list=PLBXuN4O61x-3NEufeLPuuxDDzxnu5z7v4
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBXuN4O61x-3NEufeLPuuxDDzxnu5z7v4


Here are the Lyrics split up between all singers:

Megan, Becca, Both, Amy, Beth, Girls, All, Jess, George

Don't you disrespect me little man!
Don't you derogate or deride!
You're in our world now
Not your world
And we’ve got friends on the other side!
They’ve got friends on the other side...
That's an echo, sir. Just a little something we have here in the bingo hall, a little parlour trick.
Don't worry...
Sit down at my table
Put your minds at ease
If you relax it will enable me to do anything I please
I can read your future
I can change it 'round some, too
I'll look deep into your heart and soul
(you do have a soul, don't you, Claudio?)
Make your wildest dreams come true!
I got voodoo
I got hoodoo
I got things I ain't even tried!
And we’ve got friends on the other side.
They’ve  got friends on the other side!
The cards, the cards, the cards will tell
your past, your present, and your future as well!
The cards, the cards, just dot these
and we can take you to Hero just see!

Do you wanna see hero Claudio?

Yes...
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Resurrection central!
Resurrection central!
Reformation central!
Reformation central!
Transmogrification central!
Can you feel it?
She’s here,
She’s here
She’s here, all right!
I hope you're satisfied
But if you ain't
Don't blame us!!
You can blame my friends on the other side!
You got what you wanted!
But you lost what you had!


I suggest you copy this into a word document so it is easier to read. Also I will print out copies for all for next rehearsal.

4th April Rehearsal

Today we thought about music options for the various dance scenes in the piece. Here are our ideas so far:

1. Bingo
   1. Very Superstitious -  Stevie Wonder
   2. Friend’s on the Other Side – Disney’s Princess and the Frog
2. Bedroom
   1. I like the Way You Move – Body Rockers
   2. 
      
      Try – Pink
3. Train
   1. That’s Life – Frank Sinatra

After discussing this we moved on to start choreographing the bingo dance. We set up the stage space to look like a bingo hall with people on ‘different tables’. Although we are not going to have actual tables we will suggest this by having everyone facing the same way but Claudio. We chose to do this because it means that as an audience we will not see Claudio’s facial reactions to the madness that is happening around him. This will mean that George will have to physically show his responses, letting the audience see the action from Claudio’s viewpoint. Here is a diagram of how the stage will be set up.

In this scene Megan and Becca will play Ursula and Maggie, they are the comedy characters in the scene. However, as the dance goes on, their characters turn darker and darker until they promise Claudio they can bring Hero back. Amy and Beth will be two hotel guests attending the bingo taking it very seriously (getting annoyed at Maggie and Ursula for messing around). Jessie will be the Bingo Caller, and George will obviously be Claudio. I will be Hero for this scene and appear on the grid to haunt Claudio.  

As we are performing this scene in the Hub, we have the ability to explore slightly more complex lighting. For this scene we are going to use a disco ball and a spotlight; as well the normal fluorescent working lights and house lights to change the mood as the scene becomes darker.

Here is the dance break down so far:

Very Superstitious -

1. 8 counts introductions
2. 8 counts to lower cards spelling out Hero.
3. Amy starts bingo motif (using the sequence 25713, dot the numbers. Megan, Becca and Beth nod along to beat.
4. After 8 counts Megan and Becca start the bingo motif, Beth continues to nod.
5. After another 8 counts Beth starts bingo motif, leading to all four girls performing the same motif in cannon.
6. When the singing comes in all girls lean back on chairs with legs in air. Amy and Megan facing each other, and Becca and Beth facing each other. Megan and Becca lean back to back, fall over.
7. On the words ‘writing on the wall’ all girls lower leg. Stand up on next ‘Very superstitious’ and stand behind chairs.
8. In cannon, left arm goes up and flicks to next person. Megan hits Becca in face.
9. All girls run hands through hair on next sung line in unison.
10. Run round George, messing up hair, changing seats. Once they get there, a free 8 counts to improvise/ hold a position.
11. Beth and Amy go over to George, stand him up and pull his chair towards front of stage.
12. Megan and Becca talk to George, and then pull him to sit on the chair in new position.
13.  Lines are spoken about Hero and Ursula and Maggie’s Voodoo.

Goes into friends on the Other Side (see next post for this)

bingo dance 4th april

Today we started to create the bingo dance for scene 5. We decided to use the songs 'Very Superstious' by Stevie Wonder and 'Friends on the other side' from Princess and the Frog. here is the video of the start of the dance, leading into the cut version of Friends on the other side.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF5KyEOxBps&feature=youtu.be

Shakespeare text

Here are quotes from when Hero is mentioned in Act IV

1. Rich and precious gift
2. give not this rotten orange to your friend
3. she knows the heat of a luxurious bed; Her blush is guiltiness not modesty.
4. not to knit my soul to an approved wanton
5. you seem to me as Dian in her orb, As chaste as in the bud ere it be blown; But you are more intemperate in your blood that Venus, or those pamper'd animals that rage in savage sensuality.
6. to link my friend to a common stale
7. most like a liberal villain
8. but fare thee well, most foul, most fair!
9. thou pure impiety and impious purity!
10. Dead, I think. Help, uncle! Hero! why, Hero! Uncle! signor Benedict! Friar!
11. Death is the fairest cover for her shame
12. Do not live, Hero, do not ope thin eyes; For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,
13. why, she, o, she is fallen into a pit of ink, that the wide sea hath drops too few to wash her clean again and salt too little which may season give to her foul tainted flesh!
14. To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames, in angel whiteness beat away those blushes; and in her eyes there hath appear'd a fire,
15. If this sweet lady lie not guiltiness here under some biting error
16. thou seest that all the grace that she hath left is that she will not add to her damnation a sin of perjury, she not denies it.
17. Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death!
18. if they speak but truth of her, these hands shall tear her, if they wrong her honour, the proudest of them shall hear of it.
19. your daughter here the princes left for dead, let her awhile be secretly kept in, and publish it that she is dead indeed
20. she be lamented, pitied and excused of every hearer
21. and every lovely organ of her life shall come appall'd in more precious habit, more moving-delicate and full of life,
22. surely I do believe your fair cousin in wronged
23. sweet Hero, she is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone
24. Hero was in this manner accused, in this very manner refused, and upon the grief of this suddenly died.

Elizabeth Kubler Ross research

Minutes from 24th march.

Here are the minutes from last weeks meeting. Sorry for not uploading them earlier only just found them. 

Rehearsal 21st March

The videos from our workshop with rose. Chair duets inspired by those performed by Frantic Assembly.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=-NTIV22DOWw

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=r6btRzTjU1Q

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=15BlsSyCPB4

The duets we were basing our piece on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC-dkYZOUVo

Research Frantic Assembly

Dirty Wonderland: 

"A hit show at the 2005 Brighton Festival, Dirty Wonderland was a master class in site-responsive theatre.

Inspired by the uncompromising photography of Nan Goldin and set to the sex-driven power pop of Goldfrapp, this guided tour of excess around the ballrooms and bedrooms of a faded hotel detonated the idea of the 'dirty weekend'." Frantic Assembly website.

REVIEWS

"Faultless and mesmerising, this production is a triumphant show"
THE GUARDIAN - FIVE STARS

"Frantic’s ten-day run, already sold out, will have been seen by only 900 or so people. It was a privilege to be one of them"
THE TIMES - FIVE STAR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1MSDKs2_tw

Lovesong:

'That is the story of our beginning.

And this is the story of…the end’

Lovesong intertwines a couple in their 20s with the same man and woman a lifetime later. Their past and present selves collide in this haunting and beautiful tale of togetherness. All relationships have their ups and downs; the optimism of youth becomes the wisdom of  experience.

Love is a leap of faith.

LOVESONG SCREENING

We are thrilled to announce that Lovesong is coming to London's Tricycle Theatre for a public screening, followed by a Q&A with our Artistic Director Scott Graham*.

Date        11:00 on Sunday 11 May 2014
Where     The Tricycle Theatre, London NW6
Tickets    Click here for tickets

*subject to change

REVIEWS

"Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett’s production is often deeply moving... superbly eloquent choreography"
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - FOUR STARS

"achingly beautiful... directed and choreographed with imaginative precision and poignancy"
THE INDEPENDENT - FOUR STARS

"…it builds beautifully into a touching meditation on loss and separation through death. You may well not leave it dry-eyed."
THE TIMES - FOUR STARS

"What this beautiful 90-minute show has in glorious quantities... is skill and richness in theatrical presentation; in the poetry of Morgan’s text, in the powerful use of video and sound, and above all in Siân Phillips’s stunning central performance as Maggie, beautifully supported by Sam Cox as Bill, Leanne Rowe as Maggie’s younger self, and Edward Bennett as young Bill"
THE SCOTSMAN - FOUR STARS

"As the title suggests, Lovesong is a beautifully fragile elegy that's to die for"
THE HERALD SCOTLAND - FOUR STARS

"a heartfelt, beautifully crafted piece of theatre"
YORKSHIRE POST - FIVE STARS

"a highly emotional, tender piece... It feels as if one is holding one's breath from the first line to the last"
TIME OUT - FOUR STARS

"Like love itself, Lovesong can take your breath away."
OBSERVER

"Lovesong is compelling, understated perfection"
THE STAGE

"Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett's trademark choreography is superb."
WHAT'S ON STAGE - FOUR STAR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT8RWqIxiQo

Stockholm:

Treading a fine line between tenderness and cruelty, Stockholm reveals a relationship unravelling. It’s beautiful, but it’s not pretty.

REVIEWS

"The sleek design, timely subject matter and elegant mix of genres makes Stockholm a natural for the international touring circuit"

VARIETY, USA"up there with the best of the year so far, this is a terrifyingly erotic and haunting 70 minutes watching two people hurtling towards disaster.

The guardian, four star http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAvBuKNwYY