2nd Lesson (Wednesday 9th September)

Summary of today's lesson:

Things to do: Visit Guildhall - space issues, lighting, mood (GROUP VISIT IMPORTANT)
Contact Sally Waters

Individual roles (to be decided by Friday):
Reuben - set design/performer Tish - performer/director
Josie - performer Charlie - performer
Amy - performer Charlotte - performer/director
Kat - performer/director Leo - performer
AJ - performer Callum - performer
Hatty - performer Cameron - set design/performer
Courtney - performer/director Victoria - ?

• The Hat transforms for upper, middle and lower classes
• Themes from Ghost Town --> area used to be thriving, descending into squalor
• --> time periods; change in time
• Promenade - set changes and scenery changes made easier
• Narration? -->Landlady making audience move (FORM - practioner influence e.g. Brecht)
• Changes in tone (contrasting themes/genre in each piece)
• Audience arrives into piece -->dark dank atomsphere/upper class afternoon tea
• A constant unchanging character e.g. the girl from Billy Elliot

CALLUM'S GROUP - GENRE

• Comedy/dark --> mass contrast
• Building process needed to create effective pathos scene
• Audience needs an understanding of the characters to appreciate

REUBEN'S GROUP - CLASS

• separation of classes doesn't work well e.g. one scene from each class
• classes all present in one area e.g. kitchen staff, landlady, customers

TISH'S GROUP - TIME

• murder mystery
• looking back in time; periods in which stimulus stems from
• -->2009/70s/20s-30s/Victorian

CORRUPTION OF POLITICS --> 2009 corruption present in V era still present

Steve speaks: "Powerful drama is a combination of the political and the personal, therefore the drama must mean something to the actors"

H/W: research corruption in 18th century

Charlotte