Dissolve the division between spectators and performers Breathe audibly Do it for realor do something else Use oversized or undersized props Groans screams and cries Highlight the body or parts of the body ID: 463975
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Surround the audienceSlide2
Dissolve the division between spectators and performersSlide3
Breathe audiblySlide4
Do it for real-or do something elseSlide5
Use over-sized or under-sized propsSlide6
Groans, screams and criesSlide7
Highlight the body, or parts of the bodySlide8
Harness humour
as subversionSlide9
Give it the power of a ritualSlide10
Assault the audiences senses: all of themSlide11
Stretch the limits of Total TheatreSlide12
Develop and use physical staminaSlide13
Release the potential of dance and frenzySlide14
Subordinate formal languageSlide15
Create intonations and incantationsSlide16
Become three-dimensional, moving hieroglyphicsSlide17
Create a gestural languageSlide18
Exercise total disciplineSlide19
Use a different spaceSlide20
Build levels and galleriesSlide21
Incorporate puppets or dummiesSlide22
Put the audience in swivel chairsSlide23
Employ masksSlide24
Wear symbolic costumeSlide25
Build musical instruments into the set/use the set as a musical instrumentSlide26
Create crescendos and whispersSlide27
Surround the audience with sound: live or recordedSlide28
Shock and challenge with lighting and soundSlide29
Pulsating lightSlide30
Find shocking, challenging contentSlide31
Push the experience of the spectators to the extremesSlide32
Move the spectatorsSlide33
Practise a lucid, strict controlSlide34
Submit to necessitySlide35
Hunger after lifeSlide36
Introduce cosmic structures and themesSlide37
Find themes corresponding to the agitation and unrest of our timesSlide38
Remember: silence, rhythm and incantationSlide39
Embody gods, heroes and monstersSlide40
Stage anarchySlide41
Focus on dark powersSlide42
Make a truthful distillation of dreamsSlide43
Find extreme and symbolic gesturesSlide44
Focus on gestures and movement rather than wordsSlide45
Discover savage shock tacticsSlide46
Use painful volumesSlide47
Invent/find new musical instrumentsSlide48
Blind the audience with light/periods of darknessSlide49
Create a “concrete language of the stage”
First ManifestoSlide50
Abolish the formal acting areasSlide51
Revel in spectacle and sensationSlide52
Use tranceSlide53
Communicate through movementSlide54
Imagine a theatre of great activity: make itSlide55
Find intense gesturesSlide56
Create balletic patterns of movementSlide57
Create scenic poetrySlide58
Exercise body and breathSlide59
Build physical pulsationSlide60
Research/watch examples of Balinese theatreSlide61
Take what interests you from the past and combine it with what you imagine in the futureSlide62
Never depend on dialogueSlide63
Create a language and poetry of the sensesSlide64
Stage dreams, nightmares and the tabooSlide65
Introduce elements of farceSlide66
Dub live and/or recorded voices into actors’ mouthsSlide67
Bounce into the air using each other’s stomachs as trampolines
The Philosopher’s Stone (scenario)Slide68
Juxtapose rapidly images and action
The Conquest of Mexico (1939, scenario)Slide69
Trace circles like a bird of prey
Orsino
in The Cenci (1935, full script, performed)Slide70
Move characters like chess pieces
The Cenci (1935, full script, performed)Slide71
Move rhythmically, like a pendulum
The Cenci (1935, full script, performed)Slide72
Stage extreme violence
The Cenci (1935, full script, performed)Slide73
Force actors to compete with loud sound effects
The Cenci (1935, full script, performed)Slide74
Detach words from action
The Cenci (1935, full script, performed)Slide75
Use measured and stilted acting
The Cenci (1935, full script, performed)Slide76
Wheeze and howl words
The Cenci (1935, full script, performed)Slide77
Use movements resembling animated puppets
Balinese Theatre (The Theatre and its Double,1938)Slide78
Gyrate
Balinese Theatre (The Theatre and its Double,1938)Slide79
Roll your eyes
Balinese Theatre (The Theatre and its Double,1938)Slide80
Make your limbs tremble
Balinese Theatre (The Theatre and its Double,1938)Slide81
Radiate sensuallySlide82
Exercise breath controlSlide83
Exert yourself to the limitSlide84
ScreamSlide85
Be a single creator; both playwright and producerSlide86
Abolish the distinction between illusion and realitySlide87
Imagine theatre as soul therapySlide88
Confront the audience with the darker sides of their own naturesSlide89
Orchestrate language, rhythm, light and costumeSlide90
Use sound as a significant part of the experienceSlide91
Use music to charmSlide92
Use light and sound as a form of tortureSlide93
Try the effect of voices passing “like a flock of birds”
The Cenci (1935, full script, performed)Slide94
Screeching machines
The Cenci (1935, full script, performed)Slide95
Echoing footsteps
The Cenci (1935, full script, performed)Slide96
Give words the significance they have dreamsSlide97
Invent an alphabet of soundsSlide98
Mix mime, tableaux, immobilitySlide99
Create gestures out of a state of mindSlide100
Use deliberate accuracySlide101
Link breath to feelingSlide102
Create a language of the sensesSlide103
Focus on the space. Create in the spaceSlide104
Derange the actorSlide105
Take the audience where they would not willingly consent to go