Molly
Last night I went to sleep feeling incredibly humbled and overwhelmed by the comments and feedback from our first scratch of CELL at the Blue Elephant Theatre, Camberwell. As with all scratches, the emphasis is on the experimentation and testing of new ideas in front of a supportive audience but as a performer, there is always something incredibly nerve-wracking about doing this. However, the positives of gaining constructive feedback that can be used in future rehearsals, massively outweighs this.
There were a number of surprises in terms of the audience reactions at the Blue Elephant which made us reassess the potential of each section we have created so far. The first surprise was the comedic value of the scene with Ted and the fish. The audience found it very humorous and took a particular liking to the fish with many comments about how much they enjoyed this little character. This was the first moment we presented and I wonder if the humour came from seeing an initial animation or whether it was because the audience could easily relate to the relationship between Ted and the fish.
During our process so far and in our journey to make our 10 minute scratch performance, we made the choice to create a mini piece rather than a 10 minute extract of a longer show. This was because we wanted to see if we could show the physical degeneration of Ted and whether this would come across clearly, due to a disease or whether it might be mistaken as old age. Some of the audience from the Blue Elephant said that it looked like a story of old age and some commented that it looked like a physically degerative disease so, therefore, we spent much of our rehearsal today exploring way of making this clearer. We wanted to change this today so that we can try a new approach in front of the audience at the BAC tomorrow night. We tried to focus in sharpening the diagnosis section and using brain scans and pictures of neurones to allude to MND without saying it. At this stage, we don’t want to categorise Ted as having MND but i’m sure there will come a point where we do, most likely in our longer version of CELL.
I’m intrigued, excited and once again feeling nervous about presenting our scratch at the BAC tomorrow, let’s see what the day brings...
Last night I went to sleep feeling incredibly humbled and overwhelmed by the comments and feedback from our first scratch of CELL at the Blue Elephant Theatre, Camberwell. As with all scratches, the emphasis is on the experimentation and testing of new ideas in front of a supportive audience but as a performer, there is always something incredibly nerve-wracking about doing this. However, the positives of gaining constructive feedback that can be used in future rehearsals, massively outweighs this.
There were a number of surprises in terms of the audience reactions at the Blue Elephant which made us reassess the potential of each section we have created so far. The first surprise was the comedic value of the scene with Ted and the fish. The audience found it very humorous and took a particular liking to the fish with many comments about how much they enjoyed this little character. This was the first moment we presented and I wonder if the humour came from seeing an initial animation or whether it was because the audience could easily relate to the relationship between Ted and the fish.
During our process so far and in our journey to make our 10 minute scratch performance, we made the choice to create a mini piece rather than a 10 minute extract of a longer show. This was because we wanted to see if we could show the physical degeneration of Ted and whether this would come across clearly, due to a disease or whether it might be mistaken as old age. Some of the audience from the Blue Elephant said that it looked like a story of old age and some commented that it looked like a physically degerative disease so, therefore, we spent much of our rehearsal today exploring way of making this clearer. We wanted to change this today so that we can try a new approach in front of the audience at the BAC tomorrow night. We tried to focus in sharpening the diagnosis section and using brain scans and pictures of neurones to allude to MND without saying it. At this stage, we don’t want to categorise Ted as having MND but i’m sure there will come a point where we do, most likely in our longer version of CELL.
I’m intrigued, excited and once again feeling nervous about presenting our scratch at the BAC tomorrow, let’s see what the day brings...
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