About Nothing Nicole

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

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

Monday, 17 March 2014

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.