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In class we looked at the play by Artaud 'The spurt of blood'. I think the piece is fascinating in the way he describes this abstract world surrounding the characters. The 'stage directions' are more like in depth description of events and images.
In a group we worked on staging this section of the script :
[At this moment night suddenly falls on stage. The earth quakes. There is furious thunder and zig-zags of lightning in every direction through the zig-zags all the characters can be seen running around bumping into each other and falling then getting up and running about like crazy. Then an enormous hand seizes the Bawd by her hair, which bursts into flame and grows huge before our eyes]
We chose this section as we though it was not only one of the most challenging but also it allowed a large amount of creative freedom for us to work with. We took the line 'night suddenly falls on stage' in a very literal sense and had a representation of night as a character falling from having been carried. We did this as we felt it would work well with the very abstract section that follows as well as linking into it. The fall of the 'night' character was what we used to spark off the earth quake and we then proceeded into making the 'zig zags' using our physicality. I feel what we produced in such a small space of time was successful however I do think as a class we all could have pushed ourselves further to create much more thought through performances.
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