Thursday, February 21, 2013

Design Meeting #1- 2/15/13

                                                         Some Notes

What is this play??
Stop wasting your time
A character trying to stop time
Art making as a search for immortality
Sci Fi


Words of Interest
 Ivory, Awake, Withered, Beating, Watching, Hole, Flame, Salt, Sea, Weary, Hazel, Wind, Rain, Mud, Dumb, She, Glassy, Leaves, Solitary, Boulders, Grey, Accursed, Dancers, Wander, Bird, Pierce, Hawk, Blinded  Hood, Witch, Destroy, Battle, Curse, Maddened, Shadow, Possesed, Murder, Bubbles, Cupful, Shore, Perched, Glitters, Burial Mound, Comfortable. 

When reading the play, look for visual connections. These connections become the liasons for discussions with designers--Picture Words-- From conversations with Cait in class

Other art forms/ mediums that resonate
Noh Theater
Throne of Blood
Manual Cinema, 
Goldsworthy
Mystic Paper Beasts
Silent Movies
Puppets!

Music
Function- A container for the event because it begins and ends with music, What are the musicians Rhythms? They support the story. Musicians incongruous to characters. 

Costume
What is the function of the masks and faces made to look like masks? 

Space
The space should feel immortal
A desire to perform it outside or in the concert venue of AS220, A space for ritual 

No, but really, why should we do this play?

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