Theater Log Book Term 3

In today's lesson, we ran through the beginning sequence of our performance. I believe this helped everyone get a better understanding of how our play is going to flow, also it allowed us to get the base ground for what is to come for the rest of the show.
We then ran through our 'Sibling rival' scene with our partners to refresh our minds and we were then placed in the space. This is where we will be starting the performance off.
Antonin Artaud liked the idea of the audience being in the middle of a scene, therefore, in order to introduce that into our performance, we are going to let the audience be inside the actors performing space, breaking all the conventions of a traditional theater.

One member of our group suggested that it would be a good idea if each 'sibling rival' was performed one by one at first, and then all together at the same time, creating a wave of motions for the audience to enjoy yet giving each group individual time to present their work.

Additionally, in the beginning sequence we've introduced a prayer that we all say after the 'sibling rival' scene, which then leads into the 'jukebox' scene when we then all turn into animals. At first, we were going to each say an individual word of the prayer, however a member of our class suggested that we say it in groups of 3, creating a sound-scope of the prayer. The development of the first scene has been successful because we tried different things several times improved it, and rehearsed it several times which made the rehearsal successful as we created a far more effective opening through trial and error, and experimenting with new things which is very Artaudian style.