Theater Log Book Term 3 - January 28th 2014

In today's lesson, we were put in groups in which we have to stay in for our 'Alice In Wonderland' performance.
When in our groups, we had to choose a significant scene from the 'Alice In Wonderland' film and begin devising a piece that could be used in our future performance.
My group and I decided to do the scene in which Alice falls down the hole. Relating it to the 'Theater of Cruelty' ideology, we had to experiment with ways in which we could include and weird the audience out.
In this case, my group and I decided to include taboo topics in our devised piece.
Taboo topics aren't usually spoken about, therefore my group and I thought that it would be a good idea to include Artaud theater by merging in themes of drugs and sex in our performance.
Additionally, another Artaud theme we included in our devised piece was beginning our performance in the audience, this way, the audience are already part of the performance rather than sitting back and watching it. Also, our audience are stood up for our performance therefore, they can't get as comfortable as they would in a traditional theater.
I think it is important that our performance is a travelling piece, so that the audience are moving, exploring and experimenting as much as possible. Artaud wanted to connect the audience and the actors as much as possible, therefore it is also important that we include these Artaudian themes throughout our performance, to break the rules and conventions of a traditional theater.