Live Theatre Review Flashcards
(22 cards)
Where
Home theatre Manchester
What
Forced entertainments real magic
When
30th November 2017
Who?
Tim Etchells
What is the performance for?
Capp pads
Cyclical absurd post modern post structural provocative alienating disengaging
What is the performance against?
Aps
Artistotelian performance conventions eg carthasis
Paradigm of theatre eg naturalism
Suspension of disbelief
How do you remember things the performance is
I’m for Capp pads but not for aps
Director?
Tim etchells
Actors
Jerry killick
Richard lowdon
Claire Marshall
Lighting
Jim Harrison
Sound
Greg Akenhurst
Performance aim
To provoke the audience though conventions of absurdism and alienation to question with a focus on optimism, individual agency and desire to change
The production in essence
A cycle of the same episode performed 36 times in the style of a game show where contestant ineffectively guess an unknown word that’s right in front of them.
Words describe alienation
Capppp dadd
Confusing Alienating Post structural Post modern Provocative Paradoxical
Deconstructed
Anti-illusion
Disengaging
Disfunctional
Key motifs?
The choice by an optimistc individual to wear a chicken costume meant he was clearly blind however he repeated his actions in frustration with no desire for change
Repetition cyclicalism of life
Blind hope doing it regardless optimism
Frustration and defeat
Individual agency
The desire for change
The chicken costume fool/flightless/production
Conventions of absurdism
Placards- algebra sausage caravan
Visible lighting/bright/style/ the lights themself
Stage directions read aloud
Cyclical structure
Changed on stage
Purposefully getting things wrong
Sfx juxtaposed non-diegetic and diegetic
Aim itself
The historification
The actors names (lack of)
Changing characters
Quotes from the forced entertainment website 2018
Reinventing theatre to speak about the time we are in
We’re interested in making performance that will excite challenge question and entertain other people. Interested in confusion as well as laughter
Production programme 2017 quotes
Explodes the conventions of genre narrative and theatre itself
Endlessly revisit moments of hope and defeat
Performance about optimism individual agency and desire for change
World of absurd disconnection struggle and comical repetition
An impossible illusion
Directors quotes 2016
The triple bind of destructive capitalism escalating globalisation and economic austerity the kind of freedom that is not really freedom at all the rigged game
Post show discussion production team quotes
‘It is what it is’
They said as it’s meant to make you think about whatever you were thinking about
Nachtrktitik
Beckett meets trash tv
Reader response theory
Stanley fish /Wolfgang iser
Read it one way based on beliefs and experience
Here is the opportunity to comment on what others were thinking (mention post show talk)
Here is the opportunity to address that human condition is to make sense everyone was rationalising. What was I thinking?
Why does the alienation make us feel this way?
