𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞

I am choosing to research Peking/Beijing Opera as my theatre tradition, and the convention I want to focus on is the singing in Laosheng roles. This is a subtype of the male roles, Sheng, and is typically the leading role as well. I first picked Peking Opera as my tradition for a few reasons: I had heard of the tradition from a video game I used to play, I learned a lot of interesting facts just from the initial video, and    I am always excited to mix both singing and theatre practices. Although I had originally thought about picking the female role of Dan as my convention, I realized pretty quickly that the notes would be too high for me to realistically hit, and as the tradition has evolved, Dan roles are now only played by women. I also enjoyed researching about the Chou, or clown role, but his character seemed more about physicality and I didn’t want to have my presentation be too similar to my other classmates’. However, I am still very excited to learn more about the La...

  Gecko, Video 1 - What is the Creation Process? finding personal ideas that resonate with a world audience  before writing, visualize and feel the setting of your ideas end of the writing year becomes more technical, devising costumes and score sets start out as prototypes as many performances are held Gecko, Video 2 - What elements do you consider when making a show? scripts are created by a combination of different elements besides just writing; disciplines of sound, choreography, scenes, etc. are responsible for building the script creating a proximate feeling in dialogue  National Theatre, Video 3 - Devising Jane Eyre extensive auditioning  collective responsibility for interpretation finding your ensemble’s physical and verbal language  built by everyone in the room with all sharing ownership  dynamic enrichment for actors Stimulus = Starting Point Personally, a starting point must make me rapidly think of expanding ideas from that point as well as fo...

  The director chooses to… familiarize the audience with a blank stage send the actor to different spots on the stage at different levels, sometimes standing and sometimes lying down the actor also says what they had for breakfast at certain points change the position, color, and amount of lights on stage; it continually decreases with each new direction until the stage is fully dark introduce a new actor and slowly build interaction between the two actors, then continues to add more and more characters to change the tone and location play different music and adjusts the mic settings to influence the tone and location more  “Love and Information” Key Ideas knowledge & meaning, understanding  individuality and personal connection gaining to analyzing open book for actor’s input, open to audience interpretation

Q1: Why are the body and voice significant in theatrical performance? A1: Those are the means that express character and emotion to an audience, you can use your own body like a prop to establish setting and mood, and voice usually conveys what a character is thinking. Q2: What demands are placed on a performer’s body and voice during performance? A2: Often need to project and have strong volume, constant energy and focus. Key Moments of Learning 1. We struggled with interaction during the exercises, either staying in one area or missing certain cues 2. Sometimes our volume was too quite or very loud, nervous to talk over each other

  INSPIRATION - root word is inspire; opposite is expire - encouraging, provoking thought and influencing positively  - respiration = breathing, can control an active brain - inspire definition is to breathe in IMAGINATION - root word is imagine —> root word is image; a picture or visual of something  - taking an image from your brain and making it into something physical  - comes from the same place as memory in the brain      - easier to re-imagine memories, experiences you already have      - dreams where your brain takes random bits of information and puts them in new images - what is reality? confusion built from missing details - memory and imagination are the materials used to make unique theatre! 2 Truths, 1 Lie:  I remember the morning my Dad left for Florida, I took Taekwondo classes and was close to being a black belt, I got lost for an afternoon with my cousins at a camping ground QUOTE - “Generalization is the death ...

Mobile achieves the goals of The Paper Bird’s theatre making in many ways. For one, the audience is on the stage for the whole performance since the show is set inside a mobile home. There are also numerous examples of verbatim: tv interviews, personal interviews broadcasted through household items, an astronomy book, and others. Each of the personal interviews also connects to one of the show’s clearest uses of symbolism where people assign themselves as household objects. It allows each person to develop as a unique character with functions such as microwave beeping to censor swears, the choice of words to appear on the alarm clock and more. All of these items, though, eventually become “novelties” to people from the outside, members of the audience included. Catherine as well is drawn to these items and has her own moments where the vehicle’s projector helps display her scattered thoughts with a series of quickly flashing images. Even the song she chooses to play, Hotel California, ...