Amie Connor

Costume Checklist…

Amie Connor

Here is a list of costume bits we need to start getting hold of. Our own wardrobes are a good place to start as I think most of us will have alot of it anyway.

Woyzeck:

  1. Army-Green colour T-shirt
  2. Black Trousers
  3. Black shoes/pumps

Captain:

  1. Suggestions…Something Martyn can change into quickly.

Showman:

  1. Jacket – Buttoned, straight shoulder type jacket (If you catch my drift) I shall upload a picture for this.
  2. Black Trousers
  3. Black T-shirt
  4. Black shoes/pumps
  5. Top hat?

Sergeant:

  1. Army-Green coat
  2. Black Trousers
  3. Black T-shirt
  4. Black shoes/boots/pumps

Drum Major:

  1. As same Sergeant?

Marie/Margeret:

  1. Dresses (Easy to remove, Blacks underneath for circus scene)

Doctors:

  1. White Labcoats

Additional costume:

  1. 5x Labcoats (2 doctors, 3 students)
  2. 5x Rubber gloves
  3. 3x Masks – Masquerade

I think everyone needs blacks underneath there main costume, in order to change quickly into labcoats for the Doctors scene. Im going to have a look in the LPAC props/costume store tomorrow. Ive seen a great jacket that would work for the Showman, whether or not its still there…? If not I think I may have something that could work. But check out the picture and let me know what you think.

If anyone can think of  anything I have missed, please add to the blog. Thanks, Amie =)

Rehearsal Schedule…

Amie Connor

Thursday 24th: 10am-5pm

Friday 25th: 2pm (TECH) …Continue rehearsing after tech

Saturday 26th: No rehearsal  – Work on Blog/Characterisation

Sunday 27th: Evening rehearsal in LPAC?

Monday 28th: Assessments for other module

Tuesday 1st: Assessments for other module

Wednesday 2nd: 6pm – onwards

Thursday 3rd: 10am? (us Radio Drama people might be needed to record our assessment piece? But we have the whole day and aren’t performing untill late evening, so we can split the day and perhaps rehearse later in the afternoon.)

7.45pm -PERFORMANCE!!

*Learn lines for Thursdays (24th) rehearsal! =)

Hope this is cool with every? Thanks, Amie.

Sound Ideas…

Amie Connor

*Circus Music*

We hope to involve some use of sound in our performance in order to help create atmosphere and provide our audience with a clearer understanding of the setting of each scene as we guide them through our performance with our promenade technique. However, because of the use of promenade we are still working on the practicality of using sound, especially when taking scene transistions into consideration.

With the mystery of not knowing how bigger audience we get, the smoothness of transistions bewteen scenes will be very dependant on the size of our audience. It would be hard to judge when to stop any music/sound especially if  (for example) the scene working its way up the staircase, some audience members who are first to lead, and have reached the top of the stairs, and some audiences, who are last to lead are still at the bottom of the stairs…Unless obviously if we had a personal sound opperator who wasn’t performing!…Well clearly ive just solved my own problem. O’well! =)

I suggest some circus type sounds effects for the stair case scene, unless Jimmy…You can create some circus type themes and/or clashy, atonal chords on Kirstys Yuke?

Im sure Mr.Sound Man Aaron will have more to add to this page =)

Amie.

Costume Ideas…

Amie Connor

Hi all,

Ive been looking into some costume ideas for the circus characters on the stair case scene. I thought the use of mask would not only be easier with regards to quick character changes, but also contributes to the idea of the strange world surrounding Woyzeck. The use of mask helps create a sense of mystery/supernatural. I feel this provides an interesting reflection of Woyzecks mind and the way inwhich his visions and hallucinations start to take over.
Also, a few more pictures. Creating the same effect as a mask would, with make-up instead. (If we had the time).

Thats all for now, Amie.