Kaos

My first impressions of the game Kaos was mentally uncomfortable however weirdly liberating. The key to playing the game was to keep on the ball and always stay alert otherwise you would lose were you were in the game. i think once you get the gist of it, it becomes much easier to participate but it means fully engaging in the game.

How to play : 

Equipment 

A circle of people 

A throwing ball (soft)

Instructions

First Layer

Start by standing in a circle. One person stats by simotsiouly saying someone in the circles name when your name has been said you carry on this chain. However once you name is said it an not be said again. Until everyone name is said you repeat this pattern in the same order.

(Don't discard this name order)

Second layer 

Start a completely different order but in the same structure as layer one but with a ball. So someone starts with someone throwing a ball to a another particapent in the cricle and then that person pass it on but you are not allowed to pass it to someone how has already had a throwen or caught the ball.

Once you have both layers (both name and ball orders/chains) you put them together so wilest both chains are going on at the same time. it can get every confusing meaning you need complete concentration.

Things to Remember

It's a philosophy of collective responsibility ,

Generosity not seeing a failure as a negative 

Layer 3 is stage work (stage directions ) 

Third layer is moving to a different position in the circle ,completely new chain , whilts the other chains are going on.

Improvised expression was saying layer one names in different ways we were able to feed form to reacted

 Best way to make a bad play is to have bad transitions. Needs to flow - to keep the engery up 

Toptips

For layer one familiarize your self with the name order sounds of everyone's name so your on the ball an ready to say your persons name

Have the thrower and the person your directed the ball in your periferal vison

My Stage

In class we were made to devise a stage for our new play that we are currently studying "blackout". As a pair me and Sam created our own stage incorporating all the different theatre configurations (types of stages) we learnt in class such as ...

• In the Round
• Traverse
• 3 Sided
• End On/proscenium
• Promenade
• Thrust 
• immerse 

I did some further research and found some images and descriptions on how all the different stages are set for the audience to view and diagrams of what they look like.

Proscenium stage

A stage where the audience sits on one side only is called a proscenium stage (you might know this as end-on staging). The audience faces one side of the stage directly, and normally sits at a lower height.

In-the-round stage

An in-the-round stage is positioned at the centre of the audience - ie. there is audience around the whole stage. This type of stage creates quite an intimate atmosphere, and is good for drama that needs audience involvement.

Traverse stage

A stage where the audience sits on two sides is called a traverse stage. Again, this type of stage is good for creating an intimate atmosphere. 

Pictures and infomation 

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/drama/performing/stagerev1.shtml)

Thrust Stage

A Stage surrounded by audience on three sides. The Fourth side serves as the background.

In a typical modern arrangement: the stage is often a square or rectangular playing area, usually raised, surrounded by raked seating. Other shapes are possible; Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was a five-sided thrust stage.

(http://www.ia470.com/primer/theatres.htm)

Promenade 

A promenade theatre is a type of a theatre where there is no formal stage, both the audience and the actors are placed in the same space. The performance starts when one of the actors draws attention to himself or light is pointed in such a manner that it draws attention to a particular person. During the performance actors will stimulate the audience to move around. 

(http://uk.ask.com/question/what-is-a-promenade-theatre)

As a pair me and sam devised our onw stageing for the recent play we are studying. We decsided on a traverse/immerse stage. We thought the cat walk effect would be best sutided for our play beacsue we are going to incorperate alot of physcal thearter and the paralle audience get the full effect like that. We also like the idea of it being immersttive so in certain bit of the play we create an atmospheric immerive soundscape which would have a exsting experirnce on the audince.

Here is a diagram we drew up

Q&A

1)  Where do you go to find information for devising research?

      We can use:

· Google

· Wikipedia

· .org is run by an organisation

· Museums

· Libraries

· People who were there

2)  How does the Internet differ from other sources of information?

It can be very opinion based and biased. Condensed information. Very easily altered. Constantly updated. People can manipulate information.

3)  Our favourite place to find information is:

Not Wikipedia, Google because you can type in quick theories and have an answer in seconds.

4)  Similarities – They can both be biased, they are both vast in information if you look in the right places. For more obscure info you need to do some rooting around. They both have useful information that may be blocked be arbitrary facts.

5)  Differences – you can access the Internet everywhere and anywhere and find the answer to your quires in seconds. Book information is on paper and Internet information is virtual. The Internet is free and the majority of the information held on the Internet is free however books cost money

Cooperated with : Sam Johnson

What Is Fascist ?

Fascism

·   an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.

·   (in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practices: this is yet another example of health fascism in action

·    The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922–43); the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also Fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach

(http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/fascism)

Fascist

Someone who believes in a totalitarian state rule by a supreme leader (dictator) who controls everything possible and treats people harshly -- to gain the leader's own success, to foment an aggressive military nationalism, and to promote a Social Darwinist belief that hard life strengthens the state by weeding out the weak.

(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fascist)

My First Impressions Of Blackout

My first impressions of the play blackout was an imitate warmth and like to it. In really enjoyed the unusual aspects it contained. The one line structure (streaming conscience)had a really nice rhythm to witch flowed really effectively a bit like a poem. i also really like the sound it made when doing the read though ad we were sitting in a circle and one after the other read a each. this created a echoing effect witch i thought was nice as well as having everyone individual voices made it  his   its a really inventive way of engaging the audience (ie. Us ) for you weren't expecting what was going to happen next this makes it quite suspenseful. 

Linking back to the structure i like how there is no main charterer really because everyone is as an ensemble is telling a story about one person. so together we are one and we are the conscience. i think this will work really well and as a class we can do a lot with it .

I think this play has a lot of potential and cant wait to work with it . As well as the play being a quirky structure to it, it address many social problems to it this making the play have more depth to it already. Such as fascism, bullying , crime and so on. i think these will be insightful topics to study and work with.

Although the it was a was bit confusing for the Scottish dialectic was still remanding in the scripted,as a class we managed to work though it !

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