Sorry i put this up late... It was sitting on my computer..:D
Well during the holiday we did try to gather 'creative inspiration' Read the books and wrote reviews about it on our group blog. The plays were so different, yet when we searched for the topic of politics of identity, it was always there. We realized that it was the one topic that a playt could not avoid, no matter how hard it tried.
Here are the reviews and the reasearch i did on the books that i read---
Hey hey.. these were some of the themes that i managed to extract from the book.. it was really interesting.. and kinda freaky as well.. loved it!!!
THEMES FROM ‘WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN’
What it means to be happy. It’s different for all of us, and it changes as we mature.
How ones perspective of life changes. It can never stay the same, there are always things added, subtracted and moved down the ladder of importance.
The missed opportunities and how some people have the chance to get it back, while others don’t.
The impulsive decisions that we regret but at the same time cherish.
The sacrifices that we make, only to realize that it was to the wrong person or that the person did not appreciate it enough.
The different ways that one ‘lives’.
WE DON’T SEE WHAT WE HAVE UNTILL IT’S GONE.
We get carried away by things in life, only to realize that the promises made were empty ones.
Sometimes we do good deeds, but they go unnoticed, or even worse, misunderstood. They change us into people that we did not want to be, they change us for the worse. They break us.
Second chances exist. Although they might not be as promising as the 1st.
People don’t always get together because they love each other, sometimes it is because each is willing to be what the other wants and needs them to be. Sometimes they just need them to fill in that hole that has been made by others.
Sometimes things appear good in front of us only because we have seen worse
SECOND PLAY-------THE SHAGAROUND.. .
.yeah.. the name says it all... it was a 'I hate guys, they suck' kind of play.. but i actually came to sympathize with the opposite gender!!!!:O This may seem like a very personal review btw..:D:D:D so get urself prepared..:P
Misunderstandings
They don’t tell each other what they want because they think the other will take it in the wrong way. If only they would talk!
If someone does it to you, it’s wrong. But if you do it to someone, its not.
People who share the same experiences tend to bond really well, and back each other up.
Being in love is now considered impossible.
Love is seen as a fashion, not an emotion.
It’s just not cool to fall in love and be open and confess it.
Now a days people say that love makes you weak, a ‘hopeless’ romantic is what they call it.
Women usually are scared that they will loose their freedom and then it will be really hard to get it back. They are scared that they will depend on men so much that they will just be lost when they don’t have a man. They are scared that that will make them look like the inferior, the weaker sex.
WOMEN DO NOT APPRECIATE EACH OTHER. Whether we like it or not, men will always be the 1st priority in a woman’s life, they crave for their love, affection and support. The only difference is that some women aren’t ashamed of admitting to it, while others don’t want to appear vulnerable. Girls say they have ‘girl power’. Yeah right. Well screw that! They say that they can do anything together, they will remain true to each other no matter what. When they are young they say that even when they find their ‘princes’, they will keep in touch. Well good luck with that cause that’s not how the real world works! We say that we have a special bond, something that only girls can understand. We bitch about the guys that have dumped us and the other people that we classify as sluts, we go shopping together, complain about how fat we get, call each other honey and darling cause its cool, it’s the trend. But when the ‘Prince’ enters our lives, what do we do? We say Asta Lavista girlfriends and hello boyfriend! Yeah, that’s the sad truth. We will SO NOT realize it when it happens, but it does. They slowly take second place in our lives. And then THE day comes, when we get dumped, or get to know he’s cheating on us, or we break up with him (rare). Now THAT is the day that we run back to our long lost friends, cry and bitching about the assholes that have dumped us, and how life is just so unfair and how you will never find a man, and just be independent! The 1st week we feel all bad, we regret the stuff that we have done wrong in the relationship, and we cry and brood over what has happened. And then the second week we realize that it was the assholes fault. So we bitch about him, we say we will be independent, we say we done need a man. We threaten and stab at him. And if a man comes along then, someone that you feel safe around, who listens to you bitch about your past relationship and who you think will always be there for the future, you date him then. I WONDER what happened to the ‘I will be independent, all men are jerks” pledge. And so then the whole cycle goes on again and again. But while that is going on, that annoying cycle, there are some that will always remain true to the pledge of independanthood, or maybe they just cant find a guy. Well the poor souls are left alone by themselves, no friend in sight who cares; they need someone to listen to them, to be beside them. One thing leads to another and a guy takes advantage of them. This is the ‘sad’ and unfortunate story of women. My my, don’t you pity them!
We are afraid and ashamed to be who we are sometimes because we are scared of what people will think of us as. We tend to bend towards the rules of society and what it says are the norms because we want to be cool, or normal. This leads to misunderstandings, fights and eventually heartbreaks. Those who do not abide by the rules of society get misunderstood, put down, looked down on and despised. WOW! What a world we live in!
And that was all for the reviews of the plays that i read.
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Our first idea was to create individuals who acted a certain personality, but deep down inside, they wefre different from what they showed others on teh surface. It was an ok idea, and we went to work on it, sometimes ev en creating severly differenyt stereotypes in one person. But tehre was always something missing, it was difficult to piece together and we felt like the production was going no where.
But here was what i had put together for my character-
Hi, I'm Natasha.I come from a relatively well of family. Dad is always out on business and mum too. So i don't really get much attention from anyone at all. I have always tried to please my dad because i didn't really like my mum that much. I thought that she was suppose to take care of me when i was a kid, but she never did. I tried everything to get attention from my dad. To get him to say well done, good job, smile and say thats why your my daughter. But her never did, it was all just half hearted. He was too busy.I keep trying to get his attention. I still do. thats why i work at his office. Even though what i do isn't really all that impressive, i try to get his attention that way. I work in what people call the 'geeks section', we basically deal with electronic stuff, try to invent new stuff as well as repair the old. I guess i got the passion and the skill from my dad. He founded this company, and its ALL about the gadgets. And i love what i do too. Its great because when your sitting there, all alone, its just you and technology. You don't need to talk, open up, be someone else. Nothing. You can just do what you want and give life to something else. Yeah, so thats what my work life is.But at college. Well, its a different story. When i first started out there, it was OK. I got along and had fun but kept a low profile like what i always used to do back in sec school. Then all of a sudden i found that i had captured everyones interest, i was the center of attraction, and i loved it! Surprisingly i did. Whenever i was all alone at school, i got scared. I wondered if I had been abandon3ed, whether i was an outcast, wondering if they didn't like me anymore. To protect myself i grabbed at their attention. I found out that the best and easiest way was to act cute, likable, dumb and playful.... well yeah, like a bimbo.. i guess... but there is nothing wrong with it!!.. right?But... I'm smart, i can... i can.... i know stuff... i know more than anyone in whole school, about gadgets that is. Then why do i act dumb? Why do i put up this fake front! But if take it down.... no, i can't! I depended on it so much... is it a protective wall? What am i hiding from? My intelligence? Who am I? Mum says that I'm such a waste of time, pampered and spoilt she says. Dad doesn't even care to look! What am i? Why am i what i am? A geek? Intelligent? dumb? stupid? Bimbo? Tech freak! WHAT THE HECK AM I!!!!?
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We did want to do something about one having to be and show the world that you are someone your not. That was the aspect of politics of identity that we were sure we wanted to incorporate in our production. But how, was the huge problem that we faced.
We looked at the other groups and saw that their pieces were serious ones, with intense and very dancy stuff. One group at least. So we decided to take a light hearted route, and since there were three girls ion the group as compared to the two guys, we suddenly came up with the idea of princesses. Yes, princesses. they were a stereotype in themselves, being known for their kind, gentle and graceful ways, so we decided to challenge that. Our New DV was Nature over Nurture. Very GP, but that was a good thing, cause it would tickle the audience. Or so we hope :D
Drawing inspiration from our culture as well as animated movies like mulan and well mulan mostly, we decided on our story line and now we are working on it to see how we can incorporate it into the movemnets that we are using as a DS skill. Since were doing an expressionistic theatre style, we will have to work around and find some weird out of the world props :D
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