Charlie Peace and Bamboozle.

Ritual:

Bamboozle

·  Healing

           - Relaxing

           - Drums

           - Helper

           - Initiates - Not directly involved

    ^ Shamanistic like experience

           - Sensory Stimulus

- Water

- Meditating

- Pure / Honest

( Not conventional western medicine)

In Bamboozle the children were introduced to new objects, a new object was only introduced by music and the sound of the drums. (Which was muted, this made it less introducing and harsh.)

Water was used as cleansing in bamboozle, to entre the dream. This gave the sense of  a clean start to a story.

Performance/ Audience Relationship:

Bamboozle

· Music used to connect to the kids

· Pillows; hugging/ blankets as a sense of comfort and familiarity

· Performer being alive to the moment, reacting to the kids, seeing if they want to be hugged by the pillow, if they accept it. If not to performer moved over to the carer to show the children that it was ok and safe.

- Teaching new techniques to the carers to use later.

· Only trying to connect with one person, their eye contact

· Before the performance, the performers engaged with the children, learnt their names and introduced themselves to the children to create a relationship with them.

Charlie Peace

· Broke the fourth wall by entering the audience and interacting with them

· The genre of the play was based around the 19th Century tales

- Music Hall

- Mellow Drama

Object and Design:

Bamboozle

· Pastel/ Natural colours

· Simple and beautiful set

·  - Don’t think they quite explored the set, the items and it’s movement.

· Anthropomorphism

· Dream like, soft items

· Shadows

· Intermit

Charlie Peace

· Not well incorporated in the space

- Projection was very illustrative

- Actors were not always lit properly

- The circle moulds on the roof were moulded into the set, se when other projections were used, it didn't fit properly

Time and Space:

Bamboozle

· Look through the child’s eye’s

           - Creating their world

· Journey of ritual welcoming engagement of pillows (in character), the sling (the character), of lightness and the bird object which was developed through movement of flight.

· Dramatic structure rather than narrative

· Like a den for children

· Kids were allowed to think differently in the space

· Closed and intermit

· Patient atmosphere

· Took us into the world of the audience

Charlie Peace

· Confusing time era

· Costumes weren’t helpful in passing across the idea of time and age

Image, Light and Sound:

Bamboozle

· Gong—introduced to the kids to relevance the sounds

· Calming and soothing music

· Kids were fascinated with objects and there shadows

· Feathers and lateens

· Sign language was used when ‘thank you’ was repeated

· Simple structure

Charlie Peace

· Dim lighting

· Sometimes, depending on where the actors were on set, they were not properly lit

· Projection

Narrative and Structure:

Bamboozle

· In the Round

· Entre the dream —  In the dream —  Wake up from the dream

· Floating and flying types of feelings

Charlie Peace

· A non– chronological series of events

Examples of Art Installations

Street Installation Art

http://billyphenix.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/neozoons-street-installation-art-about-fur/


http://charlottesfancy.com/2012/08/14/origami-street-installations-by-mademoiselle-maurice/


http://www.fadwebsite.com/2013/02/06/3d-installation-street-art-from-a-common-name/



http://www.twentysomethingtestdummies.com/twentysomething-test-dummies/2010/4/18/the-little-people-project-a-tiny-scale-street-art-installati.html


http://www.visualtherapyonline.com/?p=5922


http://www.visualtherapyonline.com/?p=3800


http://www.visualtherapyonline.com/?p=25754

Giles Croft and Micheal Eaton: Charlie Peace

I had never heard of a Charlie Peace, never knew anything about the famous criminal so to be perfectly honest, when I first walked into the auditorium and saw the set I was slightly confused. The flats which were on the side of the stage however gave a bit of information about Charlie Peace. For me I found them useful because it actually meant that I got a better beginning understanding about what I was going to watch.

I struggled to follow along, I got completely lost in the time era, the costumes and to be really honest, the set. I didn't understand the set, it was sort of like a mini stage on the actual stage. The audience could see the cast moving props and tables about on stage. The curtain was a bit of a problem, because I was sat in the middle of the auditorium on the ground floor I was able to see actors moving around behind it. This wasn't a big problem but it was something I couldn't help but notice. 

So the master class was actually really really useful for me. Being able to listen to the director's and the writer's thoughts and feelings towards the play was inspirational as to how passionate the writer was about the character Charlie Peace. Listening to the writers thoughts behind the play and how he researched the history of Charlie Peace and the idea behind the 'Travelling Show'. 

After listening and asking questions to the writer and director I got a better understanding of how they tried to approach the style of the show. The set was designed around the idea of a travelling show. Using a moving stage, taken around to fairs and circus' to put on a show. The Idea involves a rough, old look which looking back at the play I think was visible. I think the only problem was the costumes. They were too pristine to connect to the idea of the travelling show, they should have been more weathered down to link in more, following on with the idea that it's travelling and well used costumes. 

The master class really helped me with understanding the show and the idea around it, making more sense to me than when I had just watched the show.

Traditional Jewellery.

For Prince Amir it is easy to think of luxury whilst reading the story. Another reason as to why I think of jewellery is because Price Amir is being pressured by his mother to find somebody to marry. 

This is stated when Princess Zehra says to Amir: 



Turquoise stone : Energies : Luck, Love, Protection and Healing.

Ruby Stone: Energies: Love and Healing.

Emerald: Energies: Love, Prosperity and Healing.

Sapphire: Energies: Power, Love and Healing.

( http://crystal-cure.com/ for the stone colour energies.)

I have researched into jewellery that is traditionally worn at Indian weddings and my research has shown me the style which is worn. 

Golds metal is often worn with jowls of a certain colour. 
Rich colour such as the ones mention above are often used. The colours are rich and the jewellery can be very extravagant. 

I looked into a few different websites to look for extravagant jewellery which I could use for Price Amir's item. 

I have decided to use a ring as the symbolism I wish to use to explain Prince Amir. 
The reason for the ring, is to link in with what is expected of him, his mother wishes for him to find a bride, so she throws a Ball in which all the eligible girls are invited. At the beginning this ring appears to much as Amir isn't comfortable with himself or the land in which he lives. I don't feel that at the beginning of the story he is ready for marriage and seems to immature. However towards the end, once the Ball has finished and he has danced and fallen in love with this mysterious girl does he face his problems, over come he Sins that to process him he then commit to Ash girl and the ring becomes something that relates to him more.

Themes and Imagery of fairytales

Carol Ann  Duffy - Collected Grimm Tales
Philip Pullman - Grimm Tales for Young and Old

Little Red Riding Hood - by Philip Pullman.
Imagery:

• A little girl who was so sweet and kind, that everyone loved her.
• A little cap made of red velvet.
• 3 big oak trees, and there's her house, behind a hedge of hazel bushes.
• Sun beams dancing
• Began to snip open the wolf's bulging belly.
• Oh Granny, what big ear's you've got!
• All the better to hear you with
Granny, what big eye's you've got!
All the better to see you with
And Granny, what big hands you've got!
All the better to hold you with
And oh, Granny what great big grim ghastly mouth you've got - 
All the better to eat you with.

Themes:

• Immaturity
• Naive
• Easily persuaded and influenced
• Trust
• Death

Little Red Cap - by Carol Ann Duffy

Imagery:Imagery:

• A delicious little girl
• 3 big oak trees, her house has hazel bushes near it
• Sun beams seeming to wink at her
• Little red cap
• Oh Granny, what big ear's you've got!
• All the better to hear you with
Granny, what big eye's you've got!
All the better to see you with
And Granny, what big hands you've got!
All the better to hold you with
And oh, Granny what great big grim ghastly mouth you've got - 
All the better to eat you with.

Themes:

• Whit
• Naive
• Death
• Trust

Cinderella - by Philip Pullman

Imagery:

• A rich man, whose wife became ill
• Good as gold and as meek as a lamb
• The snow lay like a white cloth over the grave
• Shabby grey dress and wooden shoes
• Hazel tree
• Two white doves
• Dress the colour of starlight
• Silken slippers
• Wiry hair
• Dress the colour of moonlight
• Dress the colour of sunlight
• Sisters best features - being shapely and well formed
• There's blood in the shoe
• Blood dripping from the slipper
• Much to dirty to be seen

Themes:

• Envy
• Jealousy
• Sacrifice - the sister cut their feet to fit into the shoe.
• Naive
• Love
• Death

Asputtle - by Carol Ann Duffy

Imagery:

• Dark time
• Snow put down a white shroud on the ground
• Hearts as ugly as thorns

Themes:

• Death

Research | Ever After: A Cinderella Story 1998

'Once upon a time there was a young girl who loved her father very much' is how most fairy tales begin. This one however begins with an elegant old lady, talking to two young men, she proceeds to inform them of the 'real story' of the glass slipper. 

Cinderella is a strong character, not meek or polite as we would probably expect in this film. Drew Barrymore, plays Danielle de Barbarac, is smart, polite, loyal and strong. In fact the first time she meets the Prince she infers that he is 'arrogant'.  A very different meeting than Grimm and Walt Disney's interpretation. Although it does have a slight playfulness to it Cinderella is more witted and far less 'girly' and 'meek'.

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 The Prince is put across to us quite differently again. He is introduced quite early on, he is the one who is in the wrong place at the wrong time, slightly accident prone. One main aspect of this film that interests me most is that the Prince seems to be as big of a character as Danielle de Barbarac (Cinderella). Regular fairy tales seem to introduce the Prince later on in the film, show him as a small part of the story and he is really, properly shared with the audience once the female character grows as a person and realises she can do things for herself, instead of for others. 

'Ugly Step Sisters', 'tweedle dee and dum' as some have referred to them as, are slightly different from what we would expect. For example in this story there are a few variations for the stories we all might have heard  1. they aren't ugly, 2. they are as thick as how they are portrayed in the books and 3. they aren't the same in personality, one is more sympathetic and kind whilst the other seems to have gained all the jealousy and 'ugly' heart. Marguerite is favoured by her mother, perhaps this is why they are different in personality. Jacqueline is a fresh relief for this story, she appears to have a better understanding than her sister and even her mother. Jacqueline isn't blind to her mothers actions, she appears to be a bit sympathetic to Danielle. 

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I feel that the way in which this film has been taken is rather enjoyable, I enjoy the twist on the classic fairy tale. It is stuck in a time zone however which I feel that Walt Disney's version isn't restricted too. I love the concept of this Cinderella and think it is a good balance to the character. 

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The pictures are not my own, the links as to where I found them can be found below the pictures as a hyper-link.

Shamanisim, Masks and Origins of Theatre

Shamanism, Masks and the Origins of Theatre.

Kurdish Mask and Puppet project 2010
http://vimeo.com/16660047

Q: Why use masks and puppets? 
        - People can relate and take something in which is more abstract.
        - Children have no problem's accepting masks, they just want to touch and try it on.
        - Pre-intellectual thinking, no language is really need to understand the mask and the character.
        - We, as adults think too much - Is this right? How do I do it? What should I do?

What does a mask mean to ...

Society: Rituals, brings and binds a society together.
                Establishes rules.
                Spiritually and practically.

Individual: Belong/ part of a society.
                Feel accepted.
                Survival.
                Shapes all purpose of life 
                Dealing with the known and unknown.

The Rice Ritual appears to have influenced the mask created and used for the Interlude Play, the symmetry, shapes and simplicity.

Origins of Theatre...

'Theatre grew out of ritual'

Anthropological Theory...

- Late 19th Century to the early 20th Century.

- Theatre Grows From:                           

"Rituals, based on

seasonal cycles of

growth, death and ressurection

in nature."

Shamanistic Theory...

- (ET Kirby)
- Mid 20th Century onwards.
- Theatre Grows From: 

"Ritualistic healing,

where the 'perfromer' 

cures the patient

whilst in a trance state

possessed by spirits."

Performance Theory...

- (Richard Schechter, Victor Turner)

- Theatre Grows From:

"The propensity of humans to 'perform'

whether to 'achieve' profound or spiritual things

or to 'entertain' the community."

Q: What is a Shaman? 

     - 15 to 20 thousands year old figure of a community.

     - A shaman is a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of benevolent and malevolent spirits, who typically enters into a trance state during a ritual, and practices divination and healing.

                                              ^ Wiki .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism

    - A central figure of a society.

"Knowledge", "Power" and "Master of Spirits".