Theatre is not realistic, even though there are authors which try to emulate reality onstage theatre was never designed to portray realistic depictions of our environment. Theatre has been changing accordingly to every literary period in history, In several occasions every literary period contradicts the previous one and many times one period shows a positive and optimistic view of life and the next one contradicts this showing a more sad and pesimistic point of view. Theatre has evolved during all these years, we are now able to see plays following conventions from a period of time.
We were explained by our teacher why couldn´t we portray realistic depictions of life on theatre, the reason is simple, as a form of art theatre has one purpouse, to entertain us, even if the play is extremely sad and makes us cry it still entertains us and at the same time it gives out a message to us, the spectators. However if the play shows a women cry in a realistic way we find it boring, why? because art is not supposed to express life as it is, as a form of art theatre gives you infinite possibilites to express your idea and give out your message. Not only in theatre realistic depictions of a certain event does not fit well, for instnace in comic books, if you read a superman comic book you don´t want to watch his pit stains when he flies.
In conclusion theatre gives us infinite possibilites and we are able to express ourselves throughout it, however theatre is not realistic, there is no form of art which can be 100% realistic, in movies you don´t see the actors stop acting and go to the bathroom and once you enter the theatre to watch a play, you know precisely it is not supposed to be real, its simple purpose is to tentertain you. This is the reason why do realistic acting on theatre almost never will be succesful and its unlikely to appeal to the audience.
martes, 29 de junio de 2010
Down To Earth
This year´s school play has been created by us, the students. For the first time in the school´s history the school play has been written and produced entirely by us.
DOWN TO EARTH is a play for children in which humans, supervillains and superheroes confront each other, the play was designed with the concept of a "sketchbook", every prop and part of scenery looked as if it was drawn by kids on a sketchbook.
We are ten students in IB theatre, every two of us were in charge of an aspect of the production of the play I was in charge with other student of costumes, other two pupils were in charge of playwritting, other two designed make-up, others the scenery, and lastly one was in charge of directing the play.
My duty was to design the costumes in DOWN TO EARTH, i had to design 20 or so costumes following a certain color scheme. For instance the basic colour for both heroes and villains was silver, but heroes´costumes could have green, light blue or dark blue, villains wore costumes colour red, purple or a dark turquoise. One of the rules for costumes was the abscence of colour black, because DOWN TO EARTH was a play targeted for children, only bright colours were permitted and even during the change of scenery in-between scenes no fade outs were used as a convention established for children´s plays.
Once the designs were completed we contacted Mr. Cajas, the SASTRE, he had the task of manufacturing around 75 costumes. After we discussed what changes had to be made to the designs Mr. Cajas came to us with pieces of cloth resembling the colour scheme. Once we decided which fabrics to use Mr Cajas made an approximate budget and when we realized it was to much we had to make the decision to eliminate the costumes of ALL the humans in the play. They all had to obtain their own costumes following the colour schemes for humans, pale orange, yellow and mustard.
The overall process of designing the play costumes was really tiresome, we had to redesign several according to the limitations of the budget and evey actor had to bring their own footwear, I was absent during a week and some of the designs were not handed in at time but in conclusion i have been able to experience one of the aspect of producing a play, thanks to the Ib I can understand what skills are required to design the costumes, how much time it actually consumes, and how responsible we all must be when handing in the work needed.
If the designs I presented were not late, the manufacturing would have been faster and the costumes would have been ready before the final rehearsal, this way we could have improved them and the play´s presentation could have been improved. This is a lesson I have learnt when designing the costumes for DOWN TO EARTH and hopefully i will not commit such a mistake once again
DOWN TO EARTH is a play for children in which humans, supervillains and superheroes confront each other, the play was designed with the concept of a "sketchbook", every prop and part of scenery looked as if it was drawn by kids on a sketchbook.
We are ten students in IB theatre, every two of us were in charge of an aspect of the production of the play I was in charge with other student of costumes, other two pupils were in charge of playwritting, other two designed make-up, others the scenery, and lastly one was in charge of directing the play.
My duty was to design the costumes in DOWN TO EARTH, i had to design 20 or so costumes following a certain color scheme. For instance the basic colour for both heroes and villains was silver, but heroes´costumes could have green, light blue or dark blue, villains wore costumes colour red, purple or a dark turquoise. One of the rules for costumes was the abscence of colour black, because DOWN TO EARTH was a play targeted for children, only bright colours were permitted and even during the change of scenery in-between scenes no fade outs were used as a convention established for children´s plays.
Once the designs were completed we contacted Mr. Cajas, the SASTRE, he had the task of manufacturing around 75 costumes. After we discussed what changes had to be made to the designs Mr. Cajas came to us with pieces of cloth resembling the colour scheme. Once we decided which fabrics to use Mr Cajas made an approximate budget and when we realized it was to much we had to make the decision to eliminate the costumes of ALL the humans in the play. They all had to obtain their own costumes following the colour schemes for humans, pale orange, yellow and mustard.
The overall process of designing the play costumes was really tiresome, we had to redesign several according to the limitations of the budget and evey actor had to bring their own footwear, I was absent during a week and some of the designs were not handed in at time but in conclusion i have been able to experience one of the aspect of producing a play, thanks to the Ib I can understand what skills are required to design the costumes, how much time it actually consumes, and how responsible we all must be when handing in the work needed.
If the designs I presented were not late, the manufacturing would have been faster and the costumes would have been ready before the final rehearsal, this way we could have improved them and the play´s presentation could have been improved. This is a lesson I have learnt when designing the costumes for DOWN TO EARTH and hopefully i will not commit such a mistake once again
lunes, 7 de junio de 2010
Extras
Stones in his pockets is a play which tells of the arrival of a movie set to an irish village and the fatal consequences it brings to the region. The play was created by Marie Jones and was critically acclaimed worldwide, in 2004 Sabina Berman adapted the paly into Extras, the numbers of actors were reduced to two and the setting was changed and the events now ocurred on a Mexican village.
Since there is no background and the lightning is very basic the play relies heavily on the acting skills for Sergio Galliani and Giovanni Ciccia. The actors always wear the same costumes and there are only three props in the play two of them are "sombreros", the hats the actors use during most of the time, and a black box used for the storage of the hats. Extras most recognizable aspect is the fact its got only two actors in stage all the time, they never leave and in order to perform as other character they simply chane their posture movement and voice in a matter of seconds resembling a new character, i.e from an old mexican man to a gracious and beautiful American woman.
In conclusion Extras was a nice experience and the message it sent against oppresion was powerful, however the play lacked a direction concept. It was not clear the purpose of the play and why wasnt it adapted once more to fit the context of our country furthermore ti was a n exapmle that in a paly there must be a balance of acting and direction in order to make its message much more precise and clear.
Wouldn´t it be more interesting if it was presented featuring aspects from another country, for instance Peru and showed different realities in our country with characters we encounter in our everyday life?
Since there is no background and the lightning is very basic the play relies heavily on the acting skills for Sergio Galliani and Giovanni Ciccia. The actors always wear the same costumes and there are only three props in the play two of them are "sombreros", the hats the actors use during most of the time, and a black box used for the storage of the hats. Extras most recognizable aspect is the fact its got only two actors in stage all the time, they never leave and in order to perform as other character they simply chane their posture movement and voice in a matter of seconds resembling a new character, i.e from an old mexican man to a gracious and beautiful American woman.
In conclusion Extras was a nice experience and the message it sent against oppresion was powerful, however the play lacked a direction concept. It was not clear the purpose of the play and why wasnt it adapted once more to fit the context of our country furthermore ti was a n exapmle that in a paly there must be a balance of acting and direction in order to make its message much more precise and clear.
Wouldn´t it be more interesting if it was presented featuring aspects from another country, for instance Peru and showed different realities in our country with characters we encounter in our everyday life?
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