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

Escher research

Here are some of Escher's paintings that I found interesting.

I found this one interesting because it is like the audience are looking in the mind of the painter through a crystal ball. This is simular to the audience looking into Claudio's mind. 

This could represent the slightly eccentric Hotel di Colpa.

The different levels in the picture could represent the different parts of Claudio's mind. 

How Claudio feels without Hero.

Rehearsal 18th march

Things to research:

1) being John malcavich - film 

2) Escher paintings

3) psychosis: how the brain and memory works

4) all you ever wanted to know about sex but was too afraid to ask - film

5) inception - film 

6) cymond froyd 

7) dreams and nightmares

8) Salvador Dali - the melting clocks

9) punch drunk

10) guilt

11) forced entertainment

12) mental health

13) faulty towers / Benidorm 

Who is researching what: 

George: memory

Megan: films and the mind

Amy: Shakespeare text

Becca: dreams and nightmares

Jessie: mental health 

Beth: guilt

Nicole: painters and theatre companies

Funding Pitch Arts Council Funding

Arts council funding

 

We will be applying for Arts Council Funding to help us fund this project. We are applying for £15,000 as we are a small company. This will take 6 weeks to be processed however as we have already applied, we have allowed enough time for this to happen.  There are many different criteria that we had to take into consideration when applying. The criteria specified that the work must be project based and have a maximum of 10 main artists. We follow this criterion because there are 7 artists in the cast, not including the technical team. Also, we can apply for the touring funding as we will be performing in 4 venues all of which are in the UK. One thing the Arts council are very interested in is the experience will get from the piece. Our piece explores the idea and effects of Post Dramatic Stress. Although the piece does not directly express this theme, the audience will get an insight into Claudio’s mind and how the death of his wife Hero has affected him mentally.

Research xxx

Research from 14th March

Rehearsal 14th march

Objectives: research, spaces, set scene outline 

Research from 13th March 2014 xxx

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596365

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120791/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Idea xxx

Final three ideas so far

Hotel:

Audience follow Claudio round. See hotel & plot through his eyes. They are Hero. 

Get an insight into characters stories & lives

Don Pedro is franchise manager, Don John hotel manager.

Benedict and Beatrice have gone to save their relationship, however when a single room comes available Benedict is quick to take the room leaving Beatrice with the cheap, budget room. Margret (Maggie) and Ursula are maids; Maggie is thick and ditzy, she has a thing for Claudio. Ursula is old and foreign, maybe Romanian. 

Dogberry is a drunk children's entertainer who is the complete opposite to Verges, the over the top excersise teacher. 

Claudio is a male widower, due to his wife Hero killing herself by jumping I front of a train. 

Other smaller characters: swingers= filth, pullers,

                                        Cheapos= couponers, budget

School Reunion

Margret and Hero are lesbians to get back at Claudio.

Benedict is a player

Beatrice is a crazy cat lady

Don John is super rich

Don Pedro is a drug addict 

Underground

Love actually 

Hero jumps infront of train, the search to find out why

Benedict and Beatrice commute: the effect divorce has on the kids.

Pushy parents

Last weeks mind maps