An idea confirmed! Woooo!
As the exciting news has been confirmed, we finally have an idea that Forefront Theatre Company would like to explore, ADULTHOOD! This idea generated from us asking ourselves, what constitutes to being an adult, is it the law, is it society, is it yourself? Or is there something else. There are so many mixed opinions out there, and we want to know yours! With this conclusion, we decided to create a survey to get your opinions. Myself and Rachael sat down and generated ten questions in which we want you and everyone else to answer. (If you would like to help and have your say, I have attached the link to the survey below) By having this survey, it will enable us to generate scenes from your opinions/views and by doing so we can include some verbatim theatre scenes within our piece. As a company we have had lots of ideas on how to create these scenes such as using headphones which play interviews with each cast member, where the writers asked us questions about being an adult. This idea, Tamsyn is going to be explore in rehearsals this week, so expect some exciting rehearsal photos coming your way. The inspiration for the use of verbatim theatre came from watching ‘Broke’ by The Paper Birds Theatre Company, who also ran a verbatim workshop in which our wonderful director, Tamsyn attended. Check out her blog to read about her experience! We have had a great start to the rehearsal process and with ideas developing on a daily basis expect some tech ideas to be shared here soon.
As I mentioned above here is the link to our survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q8SKZ2W
If you have a spare moment it would be great if you could complete our survey.
Until next time,
Emmie
Work Cited:
The Paper Birds (2015) Broke. [performance] Jemma McDonell (dir.) Lincoln: Lincoln Drill Hall, 12 February.