How did the work of established and recognised theatre practitioners, and/or the work of live theatre, influence the way in which your devised response developed?

tue-nov
At the moment we are studying lysistrita for of unit 4 which contains different arcutypes that are extremely exaggerated and are very farcical. As we are devising a piece that is also a farce we are using characters from Lysistrita such as the Magistrates is stimulus for our over the top characters

 

tus-nov

We have recently gone to seen One man two Governs, a farce with over the top exaggerated characters. This has help us to develop our characters in making them extremely over the top, stereotyped, characters.

One of the Characters we really enjoyed was the posh character. We then noticed that none of our characters were attached to a set social class thus giving us the idea of a scene with a chav and posh character as we felt that using two opposite characters would inject humour into the scene.

 monday-jan
When leading lysistrita workshops I would often use Bretchin techniques to rehearse. I found it was the best way to draw out and exaggerate the characters. There for whilst directing this piece exercises such as gestures. We found that talking aside to the audience and excessive reputation hlped add to the comedy.