This week the blogs just don't stop...Rob with his reflections
So 2010 connections slash not...Sparkleshark...Karamazoo
I could very easily get self-indulgent about how Sparkleshark has affected me (believe me I am very good at this)...I could also tell you how I have said goodbye to my very last connections but I may just cry...
What I want to do is talk about what Yew Tree achieved this weekend...Due to an extremely talented Youth Theatre we had to double cast Sparkleshark meaning we had 18 actors...unfortunately even that wasn’t enough for such a talented bunch of people so we had the addition of Karamazoo...and what a call that was...
What Yew Tree did was just stunning, we had a performance that wasn’t just a few characters swapping over but was a whole cast swap...A WHOLE CAST SWAP! This meant in effect devising two performances, obviously the process becomes easier with 18 people working on the same script but they were two very different representations. This meant we had to become very savvy with our use of time and how we devised the play. On top of this we had Karamazoo, a 20 minute monologue and 4 actors once again blocking and learning the script.
Did Yew Tree pull it off? Of course we did! Did we JUST pull it off? OH NO we did what one would call ‘Picking up the manual of how to put on a good performance, strapping it to a rocket, lighting it up and watching as it exploded into a million pieces’.
On a serious note Yew Tree achieved something alittle more than special, it gave 20 actors across 6 different performances the opportunity to learn, develop, achieve, enjoy, experiment and soooo much more. I can’t begin to do the process justice, it’s just so thoroughly enriching! Yew Tree took another step forward as it does with any connections process, it didn’t just put on an extra amount of performances, it put on 6 connections in the space of two days.
Yew Tree aka The Movement
So 2010 connections slash not...Sparkleshark...Karamazoo
I could very easily get self-indulgent about how Sparkleshark has affected me (believe me I am very good at this)...I could also tell you how I have said goodbye to my very last connections but I may just cry...
What I want to do is talk about what Yew Tree achieved this weekend...Due to an extremely talented Youth Theatre we had to double cast Sparkleshark meaning we had 18 actors...unfortunately even that wasn’t enough for such a talented bunch of people so we had the addition of Karamazoo...and what a call that was...
What Yew Tree did was just stunning, we had a performance that wasn’t just a few characters swapping over but was a whole cast swap...A WHOLE CAST SWAP! This meant in effect devising two performances, obviously the process becomes easier with 18 people working on the same script but they were two very different representations. This meant we had to become very savvy with our use of time and how we devised the play. On top of this we had Karamazoo, a 20 minute monologue and 4 actors once again blocking and learning the script.
Did Yew Tree pull it off? Of course we did! Did we JUST pull it off? OH NO we did what one would call ‘Picking up the manual of how to put on a good performance, strapping it to a rocket, lighting it up and watching as it exploded into a million pieces’.
On a serious note Yew Tree achieved something alittle more than special, it gave 20 actors across 6 different performances the opportunity to learn, develop, achieve, enjoy, experiment and soooo much more. I can’t begin to do the process justice, it’s just so thoroughly enriching! Yew Tree took another step forward as it does with any connections process, it didn’t just put on an extra amount of performances, it put on 6 connections in the space of two days.
Yew Tree aka The Movement
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