First Meeting - 4 March 2009, 1.30pm
Director's Style
1. Bertolt's Brecht - Awkward stage setting
- Opening scene of clerk and secretaries in office:
overturned tables (preferably dark/black colours)
- Interrogation scene:
We want to show a very different view of an interrogation scene
(NOT strong white lights shining on Johnson and NOT a bare empty room).
Idea of "Party is Over" setting - Colourful background, messy, with party balloons and bottles of beers etc. - This symbolises "End of Life, Party over".
More to be discussed on Friday 6 March 2009
- Involvement of Audience:
Audience as the "dead people", like Johnson, waiting for their turn for interrogation (Not confirmed)
More to be discussed and decided on Friday 6 March 2009
2. Antonin Artaud - Exaggeration
- Unusual/weird examiners:
Unique gestures and exaggerated costumes, unexpected moves and sudden emphasis during conversation/interrogation
More to be discussed on Friday 6 March 2009
Roles
Clerk - Rachel
Robert Johnson - Mangay
First Examiner - Melissa
Second Examiner - Rui Shan
Sound and Lighting Effects
1. Start of the play/show
- Heartbeat sound effects, along with throbbing lights (Red/Blue/Yellow/Green)
- Throbbing lights suddenly stops at white light, shining on the centre stage.
2. Between lines 3-4: "He opens the nearest door, and we hear the clatter of a very large office - typewriters, adding machines, ringing of bells, etc. But now Jognson really loses his temper."
- Sound effects of people talking, phones ringing, busy footsteps, typewriting/keyboard, scribbling
- Sound effects gradually soften down when Johnson speaks in line 4.
3. Between lines 32-33
- Shadow effects using strong lights to shine on puppets, forming human sized shadows on background screen, to give effect of "ballet of clerks and secretaries comes rushing in, making strange shadows"
- Throbbing lights come in again "but now the light change, ballet of clerks and secretaries comes rushing in, making strange shadows", then sudden stop a white light on desk - " brilliant white lights pour down on the desk again".
Schedule of Meetings and Rehearsals
Monday: 0930 - 1100 (Meeting)
Tuesday: 1630 - 1800 (Rehearsal)
Friday: 1330 - 1500 (Tentative)
P/S: Please read the script again and again and know your lines asap! Do your Best!
P/P/S: It's Isaac's Birthday tmr! :D
Signing off,
Rui Shan
1. Bertolt's Brecht - Awkward stage setting
- Opening scene of clerk and secretaries in office:
overturned tables (preferably dark/black colours)
- Interrogation scene:
We want to show a very different view of an interrogation scene
(NOT strong white lights shining on Johnson and NOT a bare empty room).
Idea of "Party is Over" setting - Colourful background, messy, with party balloons and bottles of beers etc. - This symbolises "End of Life, Party over".
More to be discussed on Friday 6 March 2009
- Involvement of Audience:
Audience as the "dead people", like Johnson, waiting for their turn for interrogation (Not confirmed)
More to be discussed and decided on Friday 6 March 2009
2. Antonin Artaud - Exaggeration
- Unusual/weird examiners:
Unique gestures and exaggerated costumes, unexpected moves and sudden emphasis during conversation/interrogation
More to be discussed on Friday 6 March 2009
Roles
Clerk - Rachel
Robert Johnson - Mangay
First Examiner - Melissa
Second Examiner - Rui Shan
Sound and Lighting Effects
1. Start of the play/show
- Heartbeat sound effects, along with throbbing lights (Red/Blue/Yellow/Green)
- Throbbing lights suddenly stops at white light, shining on the centre stage.
2. Between lines 3-4: "He opens the nearest door, and we hear the clatter of a very large office - typewriters, adding machines, ringing of bells, etc. But now Jognson really loses his temper."
- Sound effects of people talking, phones ringing, busy footsteps, typewriting/keyboard, scribbling
- Sound effects gradually soften down when Johnson speaks in line 4.
3. Between lines 32-33
- Shadow effects using strong lights to shine on puppets, forming human sized shadows on background screen, to give effect of "ballet of clerks and secretaries comes rushing in, making strange shadows"
- Throbbing lights come in again "but now the light change, ballet of clerks and secretaries comes rushing in, making strange shadows", then sudden stop a white light on desk - " brilliant white lights pour down on the desk again".
Schedule of Meetings and Rehearsals
Monday: 0930 - 1100 (Meeting)
Tuesday: 1630 - 1800 (Rehearsal)
Friday: 1330 - 1500 (Tentative)
P/S: Please read the script again and again and know your lines asap! Do your Best!
P/P/S: It's Isaac's Birthday tmr! :D
Signing off,
Rui Shan
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