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"Red Threaders" Scratch Feedback

1/6/2013

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PictureGemma Williams, Red Threaders
Carly

Gemma, our Dramaturg, came along to our scratch at The Blue Elephant. She forwarded us some great feedback to reflect on and start to work into our future rehearsals. 

We wanted to share a few of her thoughts with you:


  • The piece was visually beautiful and moving, well done. Your puppetry is really sensitive which will really make this piece heart rending.
  • I think the ten minutes were fairly clear in terms of an overarching ‘narrative’ which I know is of concern to you, however there can perhaps be clearer decisions on some of the detail...I think we may need to highlight more clearly some of the specific symptoms of MND so the diagnosis is not non-specific. I think the use of the text signs with the symptoms was perhaps a little clunky in this shorter version but I feel there is a way that the written signs and indeed the medical scans can be embedded in the piece stylistically.
  • I left the piece wanting to know what made this character tick and hankered after a scene outside of home i.e. the train spotting or other activity.   
  • I still feel the transfer into the ‘imagination’ is not clear enough...When the man was lifted into the air I did not really see a reason or motivation behind it, I know this is something we have talked about before – we need to establish why ‘pre-diagnosis’ he reverts into his imagination and how this changes ‘post-diagnosis’ throughout the progression of the illness. What is the trigger – boredom, anger, frustration, pain? Why do we daydream anyway? For what purpose? 

Food for thought and a somewhere to start with rehearsals again next week.

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