Tuesday 27th February 2024 – Touring

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Theatres and Venues: What to consider when programming a production?

  • Scale of production
  • Time frame
  • Financial cost
  • Requirements of venue
  • Health and safety
  • Added Value – Workshops/ Talks etc
  • Accessibility
  • Reviews/ Video recording/ script
  • Artistic vision

Deals:

  • Guarantee.
  • Box office split: tends to be 70/30 split.
  • Guarantee followed by split.
  • First call/ Second Call + Split.

Thursday 22nd February 2024 – Text, Subtext, Speech

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  • Show don’t tell. Make your exposition invisible.
  • Ambiguity – just as we communicate in real life (what is our agenda when we talk? What is your character’s agenda? What is the writers agenda?)
  • Action – we do things whilst talking. Words aren’t enough, but words could act as gestures.
  • Avoid information giving/face value spoon feeding. Move us on.
  • Style. Think of your form/medium. Image and action for stage, not screen, not prose.
  • Leave something to the imagination – there we will find our own experience in the gaps. Make your audience work.
  • When there is conflict there is choice. Dramatize your ideas.
  • Status/power/control.
  • Start late, leave early – What do you really need? Don’t repeat or go back on yourself. Speak when spoken to.
  • Distinctive and consistent characters – cover the margins.
  • Change/turning points.

Re-write script between Ali and Dieter:

Dieter pushes cereal around the bowl with a spoon.

ALI:  What are you doing with your cereal? Why aren’t you eating it? Why won’t you look at me? Whatever your thinking Dieter, spit it out.

Dieter puts down the spoon, stares blankly at the table.

DIETER: Do you love me? I mean really love me? I feel like you don’t and it’s worrying me.

Taken by surprise, Ali looks out the window.

ALI:  I’m not sure. It’s been like that for a while now.  My feelings have changed.

DIETER: What do you mean you’re not sure? Answer honestly! Do you love me? You clearly don’t if your feelings have changed Ali.

Subtext

  • Meaning – 7% Spoken word, 38% Tone of voice, 55% Body language – Albert Mehrabian, University of California, Silent Messages (1971). Wadsworth Publishing Company, California.
  • Your Miracles Are Stashed in the Subtext - Embodied Spirituality
  • How much do you want to be ‘read’ into your scene?
  • Think also beyond what is happening in the moment. What is the scene about? What is at the play’s ‘centre’ (to cite Bond)
  • Use details
  • Characters should only tell each other what they feel they need to tell each other, not what YOU feel you need to tell the audience.
  • Unless… (direct address, asides, poetry, song, narration.)

Subtext Exercise:

Write a scene which includes the following:

  • Characters – two prison inmates
  • Location – their prison cell
  • Action – they are playing a game of chess together
  • Shared Knowledge – both prisoners are serving time for the same crime. Only one of them will be released tomorrow
  • Objective – you decide

Characters are not allowed to discuss the shared knowledge. They can talk about anything else e.g. the weather, recent visitor, game of chess, prison staff, a mouse in the cell.

SCRIPT:

Dave moves a king across the board.

DAVE: Take that! See told you I could beat you. I’m a legend at this game.

MIKE: Alright calm down. Don’t get too excited.

DAVE: Come on mate, what’s wrong with you? You seem miserable.

Mike stands up and heads towards the window.

MIKE: I’m sick of being shacked up in this rotten cell Dave. I mean look at the sun outside and we’re stuck in here.

DAVE: We get used to it Mike. Is the Mrs coming to visit?

MIKE: Later she is. I hate her seeing me like this mate. I’d rather be enjoying a nice holiday with her.

Dave stands up and heads over to Mike, he begins to wind Mike up for a laugh.

DAVE: Yeah well, I’m sure she doesn’t mind blokes dressed in orange, if you get what I mean.

MIKE: Shut up Dave. It ain’t funny.

DAVE:  I’m sorry mate.

MIKE: I really want to go outside, have a nice game of basketball with you all. Get the lads together.

DAVE: Well I want that too but we can’t go outside for another few hours and it will be dark by then. Come on let’s have another round before dinner.

MIKE: I think I’m good for now mate.

Dave heads back to the table, Mike sighs loudly and mumbles under his breath.

MIKE: Not long now Mike, not long.

Tuesday 20th February 2024 – Ideas and Concepts from Edward Bond

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  • Edward Bond – “To be sane or not to be sane, that is the question. And, if not, then be mad and all that follows.”
  • Louis MacNeice – 1944 – Prayer before Birth – a poem in response to fascism.
  • “Brecht’s project is to demonstrate that capitalist-and-feudal-social structures, such as social class and inequality are neither natural nor God-given but are constructed by humans and so can be altered by humans.” – Katafiasz, K, 2005, Pg 29
  • From the drawing room – Noel Coward’s Private Lives (1930)
  • To the kitchen sink – Arnold Wesker’s Chicken Soup with Barley (1958)
  • Oh! What a lovely war – 1963
  • Let’s GO with Labour – Jennie Lee
  • Think about how content and form relate to each other

Alternative and community theatre through the 60’s and 70’s:

  • CAST (Cartoon Archetypical Slogan theatre, 1965-1979; cpntinued at the Hackney Empire Theatre between 1986 and 2005)
  • Red Ladder (founded in London in 1968 as the Agitprop Street Players; based in Leeds since 1976)
  • 7:84 (England – 1971-1985) 7:84 (Scotland – 1973-2008)
  • Banner Theatre (in Birmingham from 1973)
  • Peoples Show
  • Live Theatre
  • Half Moon Theatre, Oval House, Soho Poly, Kings Head

Rise of Identity Politics:

  • Feminist – Monstrous Regiment, Spare Tyre, Sadista Sisters.
  • Black and Asian: Black Theatre Co-op, Tamasha, Tara Arts, Talawa etc
  • LGBTQ+ – Gay Sweatshop, Brixton Fairies, Outcast
  • Disability – Graeae
  • 1979 – Thatcher is elected
  • Romans in Britain
  • Destiny
  • Market Theatre of Johannesburg: The Island, Woza Albert
  • Boys from The Blackstuff (TV)
  • Top Girls
  • Blood Brothers

In Yer Face Theatre:

  • Sarah Kane – Blasted
  • Mark Ravenhill – Shopping and F***ing
  • Patrick Marber – Closer
  • Martin McDonagh – The Beauty Queen of Leenane
  • Martin Crimp – Attempts on her life

Edward Bond:

  • Born on 18th July 1934.
  • The Hidden Plot – Edward Bond.
  • Bombed when he was 5 and went on till he was 11.
  • Age 20, he wrote a play.

The Gap

“Is the space between the material world and the self” and it is imperative that we create human value in the void.

Accident Time

Bod mixes the slowing down of time in an accident, with the calm at the centre of a cyclone when everything is thrown up around you. As a result, there is a precision of perception. Bond places the audience in accident-time, inside a theatrical cyclone which is dramatic action, echoing the turbulence and accidents of life.

Balancing Act

  • Could there be on thing that holds the world together; amidst all the chaos of war, poverty, illness and ecological breakdown, could one spot anchor it all?
  • The balancing act is a hilarious and unsettling black comedy that shows what happens when people let the world be run by superstition, obsession and confusion.

Cathexis

  • Global capitalism decathexis objects because it only operates one value system… the fiscal value of the markets. Cathexis adds the human dimension of attachment to the object in the same way we might say an object has ‘sentimental value’ because it was given by a close relative, now dead. The cathexed object becomes associated with the value of human life, with mortality with the tragic.
  • Bond likes to use objects with low fiscal value, so when cathexed with tragic value, when associated with life and death, the chasm between social and human values opens wide.

The Centre

  • The centre makes up the very heart of the drama, from which all textual and theatrical aspects originate, all of which should conversely tend towards and relate to the heart.

Tuesday 20th February 2024 – Partnership Building and Fundraising in the Arts.

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Ways to Fundraise:

  • Supporters
  • Sponsors
  • Donors
  • In-Kind Support
  • Fundraisers
  • Charity

Judy’s Project with Dance X Change (now known as FABRIC):

  • Money secured through the Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England
  • £24,000 – Dance X Change
  • £38,500 – Arts Council England
  • Worked at Icon Gallery
  • Project wanted to introduce work to a wider audience in Birmingham City Centre.
  • They teamed up with two team members from Icon Gallery to promote the event and make the work.
  • Teamed up with Birmingham Rep, given props workshop to create cells sculpture.
  • Received funding from funders from another country to help support the project.
  • Haiku exchange to write own Haiku.
  • Worked with a local poetry company.
  • Dragons Den Task:
  • I am a company member for Birmingham City University. Research below:
  • They have a focus on ‘practice based learning.’
  • Have over 30,000 student from roughly around 100 countries.
  • Give students the best opportunities for success in the future.
  • The history of the university can be traced back to five colleges that were bought together as The City of Birmingham Polytechnic in 1971.
  • 1843 – Birmingham College of Art.
  • 1888 – Birmingham School of Jewellery.
  • 1859 – Birmingham School of Music.
  • 2007 – Birmingham City University.

Thursday 15th February 2024 – Characters

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SIX WORDS ABOUT CONFETTI CANON:

  1. Pink
  2. Bang
  3. Pretty
  4. Colourful
  5. Noisy
  6. Celebration

NOTES ABOUT OBJECT:

  • A woman named Daisy, at her gender reveal finding out the gender of her baby. She is excited as this her first baby and it’s all she ever wanted. Confetti goes everywhere and she’s emotional after finally finding out the gender of her baby. Excitement fills the air as the coloured confetti floats through the surroundings.

WHAT IS CHARACTER?

  • A character is the glue that holds a story together.
  • A character is any instance of a person but you’re not showing the full thing.
  • Simon Stephens: “For me, character is so important. We understand ideas through the behaviour and actions of individuals. I hope people can recognise themselves in the characters they’re watching.” – www.list.co.uk/article/10159-pornography-simon-stephens-interview/
  • “…By character, we mean much more than the person depicted. It is more to do with the way in which that person is revealed under pressure.” – Greig, 2005: 84.
  • “In every scene, remember, a protagonist is presented with a mini crisis, and must make a choice as to how to surmount it.” Yorke. 2013: 124

TYPES OF CHARACTERS:

  • ROUNDED CHARACTERS – A character with various traits.
  • FLAT CHARACTERS – A character with one trait.
  • STATIC CHARACTER – Does not change, grow, mature during the play.
  • DYNAMIC CHARACTER – Does change, grows, matures during the play.
  • PROTAGONIST – The main character.
  • ANTAGONIST – The character or force in conflict with the protagonist.
  • SYMPATHETIC CHARACTER – A character whose situation you can understand or relate to.
  • MINOR CHARACTER – A character mentioned very briefly – less than flat.

CHARACTERS:

  • KING – arrogant, egotistical, powerful, snobby.
  • MOTHER – caring, mentor, nurturing, devoted, empathetic, over-bearing.
  • HERO – helper, impulsive, righteous, arrogance, resilient, courageous.
  • FOOL – chaotic, oblivious, subservient,
  • INNOCENT – gentle, vulnerable, naive, forgiving, oblivious, gullible, angelic.
  • TRICKSTER –  charismatic, manipulative, ambitious, mischievous, sly, cunning.

QUESTIONS ABOUT CHARACTER :

  • WHAT IS THE CHARACTER CALLED? Daisy
  • WHAT IS THEIR SURNAME?  Waters
  • WHAT IS THEIR MIDDLE NAME? Elizabeth
  • HOW OLD IS THIS CHARACTER? 21
  • WHAT IS THEIR DOB? 12/02/2003
  • WERE THEY BORN IN WINTER, SUMMER, SPRING OR AUTUMN? Winter
  • CAN YOU PICTURE THEM 50 YEARS OLDER? Yes, sitting at home surrounded by her grandchildren telling them stories of her growing up.
  • WHICH AGE IS MORE APPEALING NOW?  Her younger age.
  • WHAT IS THEIR FAVOURITE ITEM OF CLOTHING? Her mums pink scarf.
  • WHY? The scarf has been passed to her daughter after birth because her mum had it given to her while she was pregnant with Daisy.  Although she had a bad childhood growing up, it still reminded her of the good times and how far she has came in life.
  • HOW OLD IS THE PIECE OF CLOTHING? The piece of clothing is 21 years old. It was made while her mum was pregnant with her.
  • DESCRIBE THEIR GENDER: Young, petite, pale woman. Long brown hair, freckles on her face, green eyes. She is 5’3 tall and is size 4 in shoes.
  • WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU CHANGED THE GENDER? The roles would be reversed, and we would see the story through the male perspective. What life is like for him, his story growing up, how his life changed etc.
  • WHERE WAS THIS PERSON BORN? Daisy was born in Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in 2003. Her mum, dad and Nan were there when she was born. Daisy came from a family who didn’t earn much money and was struggling to get by. Her mum had mental health issues where sometimes she struggled to cope with Daisy. Daisy spent most of her time with her Nan as a baby while her mum recovered.  Daisy didn’t have much family because everyone thought her mum was a danger to life. When Daisy was 6 years old, her nan passed away due to pneumonia. At the age of 10, Daisy’s dad left due to an affair with a younger woman leaving Daisy to care for her mum.
  • WHERE DID THE FAMILY GET MONEY FROM? Daisy’s dad was working as a barman when Daisy was born.
  • WHERE IS THIS CHARACTER NOW? Daisy is in a high paying job, working in an office, has settled down with her partner and has everything she has ever dreamed of in life.
  • THE MOST PROBLEMATIC PERSON IN THE PLAY? Daisy’s mum. She doesn’t want Daisy to succeed in life and so constantly guilt trips her into believing she isn’t good enough, she uses drugs and mentally abuses Daisy.

THINK ABOUT BEING THE PROTAGONIST: (SCENE BY SCENE BREAKDOWN.)

  • SETTING: On a boat, a small, rickety, wooden boat, in the middle of the ocean. There is a storm brewing, they’re on their own. How would they behave, say, do to try and work out how to get out of the situation.
  • Daisy would always remain calm and think about what her nan would do. Her nan used to go in boats all the time and so she thinks deeply about it. She has a vision of her nan and talks to her asking for guidance. Her nan explains everything will be okay, to close her eyes and breathe.
  • REPLACE THE PROTAGONIST WITH THE ANTAGONIST: Meredith has had a mental episode and wakes up on a boat in the middle of the ocean. She believes Daisy has sent her away and so searches the boat for an object to help her get back home. The problem is, she doesn’t know where she is.  
  • SETTING: On a park bench at night. A stranger appears and stands nearby, gripping a hammer staring at the character.
  • Daisy sits on the bench with her earphones in. She’s had a long day and wants to have 5 minutes to herself before heading home. In the corner of her eye she sees a dark figure standing in the corner holding something. She gets up and begins to walk away but has the sensation she’s being followed. She freezes. In a panic she slowly turns around to see a figure behind her, the face recognisable.
  • REPLACE WITH ANTAGONIST: Meredith sits on the bench in the park. She’s relapsed on her drugs and is hallucinating that her daughter wants her gone. Behind her is a figure. The figure gets closer and the face she has seen before. It’s her mum, gripping a hammer. Her mum tells her to take revenge on her daughter to which she agrees.
  • SETTING: At the end of a long ticket queue at a train station. The station full of people and the train they want to get is about to depart. There is some kind of civic disturbance.
  • Daisy wants to run away from her life in Norfolk. She wants a new beginning. Quickly she hurries to the train station but is held up by a queue. With only a few minutes before her train departs, she begs for people to let her edge forward. To no surprise, members of the public refused. She begins to panic but an announcement plays, her trains delayed due to an emergency. She pulls her phone out to see someone had been hit by a train. She freezes.

Tuesday 13th February – Activism Protest Censorship

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DISCUSSION AT BEGINNING OF SESSION ABOUT THOUGHTS OF RESPONSABILITY OF BEING AN ARTIST:

  • You have to mean it.
  • We must attempt to provoke thought.
  • Offer a range of thoughts.
  • Awareness of diversity of experience.
  • Conveying messages that everyone can connect with.
  • Provoking empathy.
  • Not enforcing ideas.
  • No assumptions… do your research.
  • Steer away from unproductive offence.
  • Know and think about your audience.

‘ALL THAT IS BANNED IS DESIRED’ – A World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression, 2012.

THOUGHTS ON QUOTE:

  • If you tell people no, they want to do something more.
  • Telling someone they can’t do something, makes them want to do something more.
  • Human need to explore the what ifs?
  • What is desired is banned?

STYLES OF POLITICAL THEATRE, WITH EXAMPLES:

  • REALISM – “Realism looks at real life, but it’s more than that: what you see is typical and tells you something about society in totality” – Hungarian Marxist philosopher George Lukacs 1885-1971
  • EPIC THEATRE – “The realistic portrayal of realistic characters, each scene has a message, the play is full of devices designed to make you get the message, and not emotionally identify with the characters and get caught up in the story: the so called “alienation effect” – Marxist playwright and director Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956
  • DOCUMENTARY THEATRE – Not realistic nor fictional characters. The work created is based on material from documentary’s such as transcripts and interviews with actors portraying real people.
  • AGIT-PROP THEATRE – “Plays with the clear and immediate message, often satirical; characters are not represented literally but through stereotypes; parody of popular entertainment forms” – Underground theatre UK/USA 1968-1975
  • PARODY PLAYS – The whole show is a parody of particular work/ form.
  • SATIRE PLAYS – “Plays with real or fictional characters, but exaggerated and often placed in farcical or parodic situations to expose political truths” – Italian writer and performer Dario Fo, 1926-2016, Alistair Beaton 1947

WHY WE THINK PEOPLE VISIT THE THEATRE

  • Representation
  • Entertainment
  • Distraction
  • Life Time Experience
  • Happiness
  • Free from reality
  • Accessibility
  • Memories
  • Can be Cheap

TOPICS WE SAID THEATRE MAKERS COULD SPEAK ABOUT:

  • Domestic Abuse
  • Crime
  • Inclusivity
  • Representation (gender, race etc)
  • Race and Religion
  • Social/Political progress
  • Social/Political issues
  • Identity
  • Strong Opinions
  • Individual/personal experiences that strike universally
  • Politics change

THINGS WE THINK WE WOULD BE NERVOUS ABOUT ON STAGE:

  • Saying the wrong things.
  • Don’t want to upset people but constantly agree – unsure what to say.
  • Should be free to express opinions/beliefs.
  • Nerves.
  • Division within communities – don’t feel comfortable doing things if your from a different background (e.g. race, religion, beliefs etc.) Don’t want to affect/offend people.

Bezhti & Behud Timeline:

  • Behtzi means dishonour.
  • Written in 2003 by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti and she wanted to write about her experiences of being a carer.
  • Birmingham Repertory Theatre picked the play up a year later (2004) and goes into production.
  • It is about “hypocrisy and the pressures of being part of a community, a tale about what’s underneath the British Asian dream.”
  • When in pre-production, the REP invited members of the local Sikh community to discuss the play’s contents, a week before the show previewed roughly.
  • During the dialogue between the community and the REP, the Sikh community asked that some content of the play is changed so it is set in a community centre, not a Gurdwara, but Bhatti and the REP declined.
  • In December 2004, Bezhti opened its world premier in The Door, Birmingham REP. Peaceful protests did take place outside the theatre on most nights of the run.
  • On a Saturday performance night, the demonstrations against Bezhti became violent. On the Monday after, the REP decided to cancel the rest of the show.
  • Following on from the demonstration events, Bhatti received death threats. She went into hiding and was assigned police officers for protection, CCTV was installed at her house and railings placed over her windows.
  • She began to write a new play called Behud.
  • Coventry Belgrade and Soho Theatre go into co-production to make Behud which is a play about censorship and fictionalises the events around Bezhti, and the experiences Bhatti faced.
  • They didn’t want to repeat the errors of the REP and so decided against entering into discussion about the play.
  • There was anticipation of high audiences about Behud. After back and forth arguments, the policing provided for the show was not charged for.
  • 2010 – Behud opened at the Belgrade on Sikh New Year. Low audience numbers and no protests and incidents.
  • 2005 – Bezhti won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

PLAYS THAT HAVE CAUSED CONTROVERSY:

  • Behzti
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Angels In America
  • Bent
  • Blasted

Thursday 25th January 2024.

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What is the difference between a story and a play? For this we looked at Little Red Riding Hood.

Story – Listening, Descriptive, See it in your own mind, Interpret it individually, Imagining it individually, Events.

Play – Engage with and play with, See it happening in front of you, watch, Details filled out for you, Characters, Picture what was just shown.

What is the difference between play and film? For this we looked at An Inspector Calls.

Play – Let’s us figure it out.

Film – Foreshadowing (factory, streets, cars, mansion), Images, Can have sides and close ups.

Features of a play:

  • A play tells a story through a broad lens.
  • A play shows us rather than tells us.
  • Open to interpretations – emotional.
  • Has resolution.
  • It’s live and in the moment.
  • Address our issues.
  • Less like real life than a film, can see the lights.
  • The stage.
  • More intimate – social experience.

Playwright:

What is a playwright? What do we think it means?

Someone who writes a play.

Freewriting task:

Leading topics for each episode!

Topic: write about anything.

I walked to shop on my way from home school. I was approached by this man, never seen him before. He was tall, intimidating and reminded me of my dad. He asked me some questions, wasn’t sure on how to answer them. He offered to buy me sweets but I kindly refused. It was like he was planning something, but I wasn’t sure what. Next thing I know, he’s sat down beside me crying, I sat next to him and he explained. He wanted a chat.

Topic: a lyric from a favourite song or a favourite quote.

My favourite quote is ‘ohana’ because it’s all about family. Family is the most important thing in the world, you n have one to help you survive, have one to help guide you, have one that loves you and one that cares for you. To me family isn’t just people who are blood related, it can be your friends, people you work with, people with study with, anyone you find close to you.

Topic: something that has made you angry in the last two weeks.

Owning a car is a nightmare. My car has had constant issues the last few weeks and I’ve only just passed my test! She decides to break down late at night coming home from a show that my sister was in. Luckily my dad was only two seconds away but she decided she was going to break on me. Break on me. This is my first breakdown and I got annoyed at the fact I had to spend so much money to get her fixed. Outrages!! What made it worse was places didn’t have the part I neeedEd which made me more angry.

Topic: something you believe in passionately.

I believe in bad luck. The stuff like walking over 3 drains, under signs, things like that. Everytime I’d do something like that I would get bad luck. Bad luck. Bad luck. It’s just awful. I also believe in, believe in, believe in coincidences. Like things happening coincidently.

Topic: completion of this sentence

This week in the news a massive strike of people have decided to attack attack attack attack a building in the city which involved members from different communities and from outside of the area. I am writing, I am writing, I am writing today hundreds more gathered to help support the attack in order to bring justice to the people who need the help they want. I am writing I am writing I am writing I am writing.

Remember the question: What is political about…?

Another freewriting task on images – include people, problems, issues faced, political tensions, political problems (government.)

Image 1: Climate change is affecting the areas we live in. Less people are going out for walks in scenery areas because their being destroyed by government.

Image 2: Protests are happening all over the country because councils and governments are ruining lives.

Image 3: Workers are affecting work lives because… (didn’t complete due to time!)

Image 4: People are worrying about climate change because the world is falling apart.

Image 5: Cost of living is making it harder for people to survive. They can’t afford to run things.

Image 6: Climate change is ruining nature and how they live.

Image 7: Social media is affecting day to day lives. People don’t socialise or care about their health.

Image 8: Brazil are struggling to get water.

Image 9: Barbie is a leading movie looking at feminine issues and how women change their lives.

Image 10: People are not liking the war happening and so want to put a pause on fighting.

Writing about image 5:

If this image was a play, it would be about a woman struggling to survive due to the cost of living rising. It would be about her working a minimum wage job and still struggling to survive. She works all the hours she can but budgets food, rent, fuel, shopping and bills just so she has some stability behind her. She meets a man who works a higher paying job and he helps her, so she doesn’t have to worry about paying for things. They become closer and help each other through life by helping and saving together.

Opening Scene:

Split across a stage, we see Jasmine who is struggling to pay for her shopping and Dylan living the luxury life.Jasmine has finished a long shift at work and just wants to get home. Dylan has finished work and wants to celebrate with his friends.

Ideas for title of play:

  • World’s Collide.
  • Money, Dilemmas and Love.
  • Lost in a Separate World.