A Scene with a Musical Arch

After listening to modern day songs, we noticed that we were singing these lyrics that made absolutely no sense, and we had never even noticed before, or really properly listened to the lyrics. We aim to pick these lyrics out of the correct songs, and fit them into context suited for each given character. This scene is set at a therapy meeting, were each character is there with a problem of their own. Continue reading

Voice recordings: Structure

Voice recordings were created to ensure that scene one of the performance could be musically enhanced. These recordings were used so that our director, Stephanie, could form all of this material together to produce more successful results. Upon hearing this recordings she was able to make decisions regarding the formula and structure of the first scene.

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(Completed by Andrew Tinley, March 2014)

(Completed by Andrew Tinley, March 2014)

(Completed by Andrew Tinley, March 2014)

(Completed by Andrew Tinley, March 2014)

(Completed by Andrew Tinley, March 2014)

 

A Collaboration

Pamela Cole-Hudson, director of Gazebo theater company, explains “One of my favorite ways to approach a project is to work as a creative team developing initial ideas and devising around them, before embarking upon further research and writing and development into a full show.” (Cole-Hudson, 2014). She is describing how she looks for people who are generous and who don’t block improvisation ideas, similarly we want to work as a creative collaboration with this sense of play. Although we have an assigned director, we intend to all collaborate ideas, and contribute to the process. The theatre company, Forced Entertainment, agree stating that it’s “not what makes a good improviser, but what makes a good improvising team.” (Forced Entertainment, 2010). Continue reading