Progress report

This week I was able to make a lot of progress, including fixing my script, changing my staging, changing my characters, running an experiment to help me define Brecht’s theater aspect of multi rolling, and also re-think about the light and props I will use.

I adjusted my script to make it shorter to fit into the time restriction of the IB performance and also clearer and more straightforward for better understanding and defining  the theater elements for the audience.

I changed my staging, including  the narrator, the prince, the bakers’wife, to help my transition on the scene to be smoother, which I do not need to move for a long distance that takes a lot of time and unnecessary attention from the audience. The narrator is going to be down stage center and the story is only going on in the center stage. I changed the lighting into just darkness or a bundle of light on a specific character each time. This is because I want to highlight Brecht’s theater aspect of simple tech but complex story.

For the experiment I designed and ran over with my class is:
I have three of my classmates helping me to do a little game. The game is: three of them will rant about a different topic I give them for each of the 3 rounds. However, in the first round, they will rant from their own perspective and characteristics; in the second round, they will rant as any other person between them (except for themselves); in the third round, it's the similar idea. After each round, I am going to guess who they were playing. This activity is to help me develop the skill of playing multiple characters on stage and how to switch between them. It's is very important to define and separate each character while performing. 

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