I went to the theatre for this workshop, and I've got quite a handicap! The others all study drama and were confident, not that I am not saying that I'm not, but they were. All the peeps who came from my school didn't study drama at all! They all seem nice.
The group is to see a play and then make one inspired by it. 'Twas called 'The Revenger's Tragedy' a tragedy by all accounts, and about lust and revenge (wouldn't have thunk it!). The director, I have to commend! The stage was flat, and then there was a moving circle comprising of 3 different sets. The beginning had the most effect, and now I wish I remembered all of it! I don't know why, but I wsan't sucking in ALL the information I could as I would usually do.
If I were to explain the entirety of the play, I would be here forever, but Vindice wants revenge- wouldn't guess it by the name, and he eventually gets his revenge.
The stabbing bits I loved (a bit too much) but there were the bits with sex and the grinding which were a bit too graphic for me!
I was sitting next to a boy who was from another college, and he was falling asleep. The thing is, because it was all 'thee's 'thy's and 'thou's, I dont' think it inspired him- I assumed he was dragged along by his teacher, and he was snoring so loudly, that it endeed up being louder than the people on stage!
For the music, it was trance music with a man singing very high- even higher than the notes I could hit, and I'm a soprano! He's a countertenor anyway. Very high. He was singing over the trance in Latin because it is Italian.
It was a gritty play, and when it hit the climax/ time for the interval, the lying wedding dress of his dead lover, and when the stage was spinning, a female filled the dress, and the boy who had woken up by that time squawked how that wasn't real or possible to which I thought- the beauty of drama. He told me not to laugh at him in a sulky fashion, and I retorted how he was asleep previously, and he told me not to say it so loud, or his teacher would here.
INADVERTENTLY I didn't end up with my school mates when watching the performance!! Oh me oh my! *mocks despair and shock* I was on the other side of the row of seats, and then the two boys who sat next to me moved up to be with their friends, so I was all by my lonesome in every direction with a beautiful view!
It so inspires me to go to the theatre again! I need to reinfuse those creative juices which fade away as I have scholarly English Literature, French, Theolgy and Sociology! (The melodrama continues! :D)