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 :)