Session Notes:

• Ran script from Sc8 until end.
• Need to develop Sc1-7; more abstract,
• Performers to face out/audience more during scenes.
• Montano; Candy.
• Sc11; three white cloths (acting as handkerchief) and red cloth to     cover Desdemona.

After Christmas:

• Photo/video evidence
• Analyse practitioners, adapt their styles of work to the piece?
• Props?
• Costume?
• Accompaniment?

Played a game of Reversi online today, we won! Booyah!

- trying to understand the aim and rules of the game; use in piece?

Session notes:

Recapped beginning;
- Altered to fit timing with music
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- Audience entrance
- Cloth, becomes prop for Sc1? 

Script work;
- Experimented changing the setting of the play, discussed a gang scenario, pub scenario and school scenario.
- Tried out the school scenario, found that by doing this we had to adjust the some of the script -> not sure about this idea, preferred old setting.
- Worked from Scenes 1 to 11; Sc5 - clean up C/M fight, Sc6 - I/O tension/argument/fight + significance of handkerchief, Sc9 - O pushes D, Sc10 - abstract movement.

For next week:

- Decide definitely on setting.
- Characterisation activities?
- Develop scenes, add in more abstract to core of play.
- Research practitioners for inspiration. 

“Reversi”

• Board game with White and black pieces.
• I vs O.
• Change colour depending on what they(characters) believe.
• Reacuring scene?
• During current scenes? Freeze frames?

Session notes;

Today’s session was the first one back from half-term break, and so to begin with recapped Sc.10 and the opening.

Sc.10; I orders R to kill C, + abstract movement.
Opening; Robyn and Tamara pull cloth forward to reveal O and D.

Felt there needed to be some sort of entrance just before the opening scene, added some music and some abstract movement. Possible lighting?

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Othello
Othello is an army general. Desdemona is his wife. Having fallen in love and eloped their marriage is blessed by the Duke of Venice and they are posted to Cyprus where the general is to maintain peace and live happily. However, as the moors ensign Iago begins to slither into his mind with evil nothings, hysteria overwhelms the court with deadly consequences. Lies, secrets and jealously consume this story and once happy friends find themselves questioning who is actually a friend and who is not? ‘I am not who I am’.

For the second production by ‘Get Stuck In’ we will be performing our own adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most fantasticly famous plays, ‘Othello’. We have decided to take a different approach on the style of the performance, as we will be producing an abridged version of the phenomenon focusing on abstract techniques.