We started out the day with a good old Toi Whakaari style discussion for two hours about our individual purpose for the showing, before delving straight into some explorations of the '10 Energies' adapted from John Wright's work by John Abbot.
Moving from 'Catatonic' (no energy, immovable) to 'Hysterical' (frenzied energy) and layering it against our text. We found that in order to keep a strong relationship to the storytelling, as actors we must maintain a certain 'maturity', focus or dedication to the story without becoming indulgent or hysterical.
Then after lunch we played some 'Animal Bang' to warm us up to a very serious afternoon of very serious work. I was a worm, confused as to which end was up, a frozen crocodile lost in the antarctic and a gay lion about to come out to his father at his coronation.
So then Andrew/Konstantin and Jaci/Nina showed their piece that they have been working using us as their props, pulling Runa and Florian up to perform scenes in a beautifully hap-hazzard rehearsal type style. And then Ben took all his clothes off and did some post-dramatic acting. Tom worked on the language of body isolations and poetry within the text.
And Runa and I played with some toy soldiers (and also learned how to speak German Wohin willst du?). Ooooh! How productive we all are!
And to wrap up, in the famous lines of Zsa Zsa Gabor
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.
(Don't worry, its post-dramatic)
Love Piggy
(Don't worry, its post-dramatic)
Love Piggy
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