Description: this week we’ve been looking about the
Paucartambo performance, and German expressionism which will be next year
stimuli for the school play.
Analysis: first of all we talked about the Paucartambo performance,
we did a PPP to present our ideas, we correct the pitch, and we define some
terms such as:
->Concept:
what gives limit to an art, what organizes it?
->Motivation:
why am I doing my performance in the way I am presenting it?
Apart from this we talked about next year stimuli which will
be: “German Expressionism”, I personally like this kind of theatre, first of
all because it started after the first world war so this is why the actors
wanted to show an inner emotional reality rather than what is on the surface,
they went deeper into themes such as: madness, insanity betrayal and other
intellectual topics, which where the opposite to the standard action-adventure
and romantic performances they were used to. They had anti-heroic characters,
as they wanted to show that the ‘heroes’ where actually de villains in the
story, they wanted to show the corrupt world they were in and how no one could
be trusted in the world they were living in. The directors felt disillusioned with reality
and the world around then therefore they made films and acts that looked warped
and distorted and were very surreal, they even had heavy and stark shadows,
depressed stories and corruptible and untrustable characters as I have mention before. We can see a picture of a play called 'Nosferatu', which shows the dark and supersaturated shadows that they used.
But what most
took my attention in German Expresionism is the setting, in this kind of
theatre, the setting is very different, they are chaotic, urban and crowded
settings. Which had strong elements of modernism, we can see this on Metropolis
which is the picture bellow, this evidences the enormous power plant and a
little bit of the massive city.
Also they often used large shapes of bright, unrealistic
colours with dark, and they were often cartoon-like. The buildings might lean,
showing the ground sloping up steeply as a symbol of defiance of tradition. As we
can see in the picture bellow that is from a play called The cabinet of Dr
Caligari.
Connections: When I looked this kind of theatre, it reminded
me of many modern films that we have nowadays, like Tim burton films, I’ve
found that actually Tim Burton does influence in this kind of theatre, and he
tries to create expressionist world in some of his films such as ‘Sweeney Todd’,
but we can actually clearly see this in ‘Edward Scissor hands’ who is actually inspired on Dr. Cabinets
character. We can see a picture comparing Dr. Caligari and Edward.
Also this Kind of theatre left two horror genders: horror film and
film noir, which is especially influenced by expressionism.
Reflection: I really liked searching about this kind of
theatre, because I personally like horror movies, and Tim Burton kind, it is
really impressive how he influenced in one of previous character for his movie:
Edward Scissor hands, still he adapt a lot of characteristics in order to work
in the modern world, he didn’t use the setting as it was in this film, I think
this is because we need to adapt in order to make it interesting to nowadays
viewers. We want to influence in German expressionism for next year’s play, so
how can we adapt it?, do we have to adapt it?, because it is for a certain
amount of audience, and it is not an international movie, so in what extend can
we adapt this kind of theatre in order to work for our audience, in our
theatre?, do we need to adapt it?, can we just do it exactly the same? Like in ‘Miyuki
y los tres demonios’?, because as far as I remember we adapt some things in
last year’s play, and this years was not influenced in a specific type of
theatre like last year. So in order to work do we have to change some things
like in Tim Burton’s films?, how can we adapt it to our needs for the play?
