Performance concept

During this week we have decided upon our acting and design concepts for our kabuki performance and agreed on the concepts of "Pressure" and "equivocation" respectively. When thinking of the concepts we had stumbled upon different problems, how did the proposals related to the main direction concept " plate tectonics", we had several problems when trying to connect all the pieces together and realized the reasons for their incorporation into the performance had to be important and be tied together with the direction concept.

My task was the acting concept, Pressure, through a mental map we arrived to other key elements of this proposal, how tension was always present and was static and dynamic at the same time, in addition they merged together into a pose. We tied it together with plate tectonics which are always in tension, and with equivocation, because characters may pose as other elements from other locations, "theres more than meets the eye".

In addition we´ve also had to focus much more into how do we explain all these ideas we already know and understand. Only when we are able to explain to someone who has no idea of what our concepts are and make them understand what we are saying, that we truly say we fully understand what we have created and plan to use in our performance.

How well would our concepts in general fit a traditional western play? It would not be necessary to have a restrained passion which suddenly bursts out with great passion on certain occasions, therefore how well would these concepts adapt to a traditional western play, such as Hamlet or "La vida es sueño?