We watched this play today ( monday) and i really like the stimulus in which the play was done, and i felt like doing a review about it.
The play was vey dynamic and delivered a very concrete message in various ways. I found this play funny, but serious at the same time, cause it did have some slow and more direct parts, but sometimes it just changed radically to a funny segment. Never the less, there was a huge balance between this 2 aspects in the play.
Lights had a different function in this play, they were not done mainly to light the stage, but as a prop, which was used as to represent the audience. When the lights came on, the actors reacted to us and changed their actions. This was a really interesting technique.
Voices in the play changed instantaneously, which i have to admit looks really hard, because every voice have to be on it's own and can't be mixed with voices from other characters, and that is not as easy as it may sound.
Movements were never ceased, that is one think i liked about this play. Speed varied all the time, and volume, and levels and everything, but movements never ceased.
This type of stage could be a Open type. Since actors were firstly sitting next to us, and there was not much separation between audience and actors, and it was really good designed for 2 actors to take all space.
After the play finished, we were allowed to ask questions. I did one that i think the director did not understand so he just answered "exactly", or maybe he did, i dont know... He told us the Stimulus for this play was how technology wasn't actually making everyone closer, but separating everyone from a social community. And i thought this idea was a really good one to develop and to think about.
Still i wonder, What is better? Doing many characters or just 1? If you do many characters, can you reach the same level for each one that you would if you were only doing one? Is it best to do just 1 and really well or is it best to do many characters? But all at the same level of mastery as if you would be doing 1?
The director did understand your question. I'd have liked you to develop and think about that idea in this entry, and how it was shown in the play.
ResponderEliminarWith respect to your final question, there are different types of theatre, and each one handles characterization in different ways according to their needs. Do you think this play would have needed other types of characterization? Which rule would you use here to determine levels of mastery?
In review entries you need much more specific analysis of how the different elements in the play work on their own and in conjunction with the others to create effects on the audience.
Roberto