We got so much blocking done after school! It’s really starting to come together and we are beginning to use our rehearsal times really effectively.
The only stress I have still involves lighting and working out how to stay true to both theatre practitioner’s visions. This is from Artaud’s manifesto: Lights – Lighting: “The lighting equipment currently in use in the theatre is no longer adequate. The particular action of light on the mind comes into play, we must discover oscillating light effects, new ways of diffusing lighting in waves, sheet lighting like a flight of fire-arrows. Fineness, density and opacity factors must be reintroduced into lighting, so as to produce special tonal properties, sensations of heat, cold, anger, fear and so on.”
That is not going to happen with the fluorescent lighting… it won’t assault the senses.
However Brecht saw lighting as a secondary concern and the actual theatre as paramount. Is there a way we can achieve both?
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