The Opening

Here is the link to Nicole's page which will take you the videos of the physical theatre movement piece that we did with Rose this afternoon, these we liked so much that we actually are thinking about putting them at the beginning of the piece to establish all the characters, we are possibly going to loop the movement round and then change costume as each one of us exits to represent a different character that will show up at some point in the production. The next step I'd like to take in developing this would be to set that characters and give a clear intent but more importantly clear characterisation of the characters so that we can react accordingly during the movement motif.

About Nothing Nicole : Rehearsal 21st March:

The Originals

Here is some basic knowledge about frantic assembly, who they are and how they work, we chose to look into them as it is the kind of style that we would be interested in looking into further and trying out for the majority if not some key scenes in our piece. 

Frantic Assembly creates thrilling, energetic and unforgettable theatre. The company attracts new and young audiences with work that reflects contemporary culture. Vivid and dynamic, Frantic Assembly's unique physical style combines movement, design, music and text.
 Frantic Assembly is led by Artistic Director Scott Graham. Scott formed the company with Steven Hoggett and Vicki Middleton in 1994 and continues to collaborate with many of today's most inspiring artists. Having toured extensively throughout the UK, Frantic Assembly has built an enviable reputation as one of the most exciting companies in the country. The company has also performed, created and collaborated in 30 different countries across the world. In addition to its productions Frantic Assembly operates an extensive Learn & Train programme introducing 6,000 participants a year to the company's process of creating theatre, in a wide variety of settings. Frantic Assembly also delivers Ignition, an innovative vocational training project for young men, particularly targeting those with little previous experience of the arts.

The 18th of March

Here was our first chat with johno, explaining our main ideas, themes and styles to him. We have been told about loads of different companies and productions that we have done similar plot lines and styles to the one that we are trying to achieve, and also have been given a shed load of research opportunities to think about, i'm going to look into more about mental health and how that we have effected both claudio and hero and also try and get to grips better with the source text and see witch scenes and parts of dialog could be used effectively in this way. I also want to watch inception again so that you can see the motifs that run through the feel and drop hints through, and also get to grips with only drip feeding the audience information so that it only pieces together at the end. I know as well that there is some really nice symbolism throughout the film such as the elevator holding different memories and parts of the characters mind, which is exactly the kind of thing that i want to explore. 

The 17th of March

Here we looked at a bingo motif for one of the scenes and just talked and developed some of the ideas of which we had for when claudio really starts to loose it. We also touched upon some of the minor characters and how they could slot into the production and also shared some of georges research of PDS

The Bedroom

Today was really interesting, we looked more into frantic assembly and have decided that we really do want to take forward a more physical theatre approach to some of the scenes, particularly the bedroom scene where we want hero to be latching onto claudio, we did some improv physical theatre and had it so that George was claudio and we were all hero trying to get to him. We liked this and then moved forward with each of us representing a different emotion/part of hero which was interesting however we decided that it was rather cluttered and to be honest a bit to gropey, so i think if we do use this type of this we would just have one of us doing it, as focus mainly on the love that hero had for him, as this was by far the most effective emotion that we used in the task.

The Initial Ideas

First Picture up at last, here is the very first recap that we went through of the kind of ideas that we had and the type of style that we wanted to go for. 

The 9th of March

woooo, first rehearsal video up :)

The Annoyance

Hi guys just to say that there have been some issues with the videos but they will be up as soon as possible :) 

The Best

In my opinion this is the best version I have seen, check it out guys its the clearest one if your having trouble understanding what the hell goes on in the original ... not to mention it stars the awesome Catherine Tate and the rather delicious David Tennent :) 

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The Beginning

So today way the first session we properly had for looking into our Shakespeare pieces and it was incredibly interesting. We recapped what we had done in the very first few talks about much ado and decided to come up with three ideas that we would want to talk forward in the next rehearsal. Two ideas we had previously come up with so we went into a but more detail on how we could make this a piece of promenade theatre and what aspects of the ideas we though would work well and what parts needed more development. We then wanted to try and come up with some lovely random settings as suggested by Amy, so that we could find something a bit different to work with. From this one idea that came up was that it would be set in the London Underground and that the characters but particularly the lovers in the story only ever meet while commuting, this I thought was a great idea and had real potential as each person could go into all the characters different houses and lives and there for a different spaces in order to tell the rest of the story. The thing I think we should take forward into the next rehearsal is to continue with coming up with more random settings as it really worked and quickly as well for coming up with the London Underground idea.

1 ) What important discoveries were made during the rehearsal?


The possible ideas that we can potetially develope the story line of our piece from

2 ) What led to those discoveries?


Brain storming and mind mapping any ideas/directions/key events tha we wanted to share

3 ) Towards where do those discoveries lead?


The overall style and direction that we want to take our piece and also the actual storyline of it 

4 ) Consider questions No. 1-3 except focus on important roadblocks/dead ends.


No roadblocks really, we just wrote down any ideas that we had and commented on wether they have potential. We didn't dwell on what we thought was the 'better' idea or not so that we limit ourselves later on

5 ) Reflect on dramatic action and conflict.  How’s it going?  What actions does this suggest?


Not to sure what this one means but i don't think there has been any conflict going on as of yet, i'm really  happy with how the group dynamic is working, were all listening to each other really well ... possibly because there was only 4 of us today but hey ho

6 ) Reflect on transformational leadership.  How’s it going?  What actions does this suggest?


Leadership wise I took the lead with writing things on the board, however I'm rather consious that i was more of a director than a proformer in the Romeo and Juliet piece, so I want to try and sit back in the next rehearsal as I not only want others to feel like they have control and responcibity over the piece but also to make sure that everyone has a go at taking the lead ... Bassically I need to shut up a bit and let people get a word in edgeways

7 ) Reflect on the journey of one or both of the actors with whom you are working.  How’s it going?  What needs to happen next?


Everyone today was really on form, Becca was positive and gave off a really great energy today which enabled everything to tick along nicely, Nicole was organised ... as always and had the notes from the very first talk that we had about the piece so that was great to refresh and get the rehearsal moving to the next important task, but Amy today I would say was shit hot today, she not only helped us think outside the box, stay on track when it came to coming up with more strange settings, and come up with one interesting obsqure idea of the London Underground setting, but also came into the space with a beautifully and well thought out idea/story line for the piece which had been reworked sinced the last talk we had about it.

8 ) What is the most important thing that happened (or didn’t happen) in your recent rehearsal?  Unpack its importance.


We really got to grips to some great ideas 

9 ) What is the most important thing that could happen in your next rehearsal?  How will you shape the rehearsal in order to increase the odds of that “thing” happening?


10 ) Consider where you’re at in the grand scheme of all rehearsals.  How’s it going?  What actions does this suggest?

The Roots

Heyyyyy, might wanna have a look at BBC 1 there's a show on called the Brittish, about Shakespear and the political history behind alot of the stuff at the time. Might Be helpful .... Also loving the blogger app .... This shit is awesome, deffo the way forward with log booking johno xxx

The Discovery

Herrow Blogger, please excuse the stupid name of the post ... I have decided for my own interest that I shall call posts dramatic and theatrey names :) 

So today although not much happened, we wrote down a list of skills of which we possess and it was interesting to think about all the different and wide variety of stuff that we can offer in our Shakespeare pieces. We also wrote some random stuff that we like to see in theatre, telly and in movies. 

Wooo first entry done, hope I keep up with this one ... liking it so far :P  

Production Meeting

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