Tuesday, 5 April 2011

ideas to try tomorrow

  • the bicycle suitcase full of memories, a bicycle and then Henry's brain that gets passed to jacopo.
  • that bette also has a suitcase that is then passed around
  • actually using or showing tom's conversations with luke and ria's conversations with suzanne.
  • take that!
  • more music how and where.
  • over the rainbow coming back in after carmen sings it.
  • also i think our play is missing some simple explanation / metaphor for how memory works. i think i have found one. could be very engaging and simple demonstration. (see photo of text)







Frontal Lobe Lecture

This is an interesting if not long lecture on the brain it has a variety of different information.
Ranging from Brodmann areas to Frontal Lobe damage.
Hope this helps :)
Ty

more script

Jason is building an old suitcase. It has a handle and when you turn it a model of a bicycle comes up and the wheels turn.
Imagine a scene where Henry, alone? Tells us about the suitcase. That it contains all his memories. That nothing more can go in it because he has stopped storing new ones. His mother, father, fishing trip, a girl. He takes things out and puts them back in because they are precious. Sometimes new things sneak in though they are not meant to. Finally he reveals the bicycle and so the reason that the suitcase if full.
Does he come and get us from the lecture to show us? Does he bring suitcase to us? Is that maybe when the new song happens?


I think we need to get overall structure and feel for the show before we decide whether tan/ phineas / korbinian need to feature more.
In the meantime, I would like to develop your modern doctor characters more.
Some ideas for scenes for you to think about;

Robbie or Robbie and Tyrone as modern doctors meeting Bette, explaining her story more and maybe going through procedures with her about what happens practically when she dies. That she will have to be frozen……

Taz, more on Phineas but maybe before we meet him. Or after? The ethics of studying the broken brain, the assumptions we make? How the doctors own the patients that they find……. How personality resides in the brain or memory or the spirit????

Contact Improvisation Inspiration

I remember we played a contact game a couple of weeks back so I thought I'd put this up since it could give us an idea for more fluid movement because at the moment the physical movements are quite robotic and continuously loop, so lets spice it up with some teamwork, contact and fluidity :)
plus you can incorporate some acro-balance and gymnastics which is always a good thing in my mind!
(use what we have learnt)
Ty

Monday, 4 April 2011

Script Idea for Henry and Suzanne scene:

Henry identifies the name Corkin
S: Okay Henry, i want you to look through this list on names.
H: Okay..
S: I want you to tell me if any of these names look familiar.
H: Okay…
(Henry reads through the list of names, studying them all carefully. He then points at a name.)
S: What does it say Henry.
H. It, It says Corkin.
S: Corkin? Have you heard of that name before? Do you remember what this person’s first name is? Or where you know them from?
H: No, no I don’t, the name just sounds really familiar, like I have heard it before…
Suzanne questions Henry on his family
S: Tell me about your family Henry
H: Urrmm..
S: Can you remember them
H: I can remember, when I was younger, and my dad and I went on a train ride…. I was so excited. I loved it. He brought me a hot sausage roll from the bakery afterwards.
S: That sounds like it was a lovely day out.
H: it was, I can still hear the noises that the train made.. it was so loud, I remember I had to shout for my dad to hear what I was saying.
S: Did you have to shout a lot while you were on the train.
H: I did abit, but most of the time I was just looking out the window, seeing how fast we were going as we past stuff.
S: That is lovely Henry, do you remember your dads name?
H: Sometimes…
S: How about if I asked you now? Would you be able to tell me his name?
H: ur, no, I I don’t think so.
S: What about if you saw your dad, if he came to visit, would you know it was him?
H: I’d like to think I would, yeah. … I, I think I would yes.

Here is a couple of ideas for scenes between Henry and Suzanne.
Ria and Ryan :)

Script Idea for Henry and Suzanne: Keep meeting.

Ryan and I have had ago at scripting Suzanne and Henry keep on meeting, we though that we could repeat this quite a few times, and also have a movement sequence to go with it... So that it can be done silently under Brenda's lecture, and then carried on after??

Ria :)



Script Idea for Henry and Suzanne: Keep on meeting

Suzanne: Hello Henry, I’m Suzanne
Henry: Hi, Henry… Please to meet you.
S: And you, how are you feeling today?
H: I’m feeling okay, thank you.
(Henry looks out the window)
S: Good, right Henry is it okay if I ask you a few questions?.....(Henry is still looking out the window)… Henry?
H: Oh, sorry who are you?
S: Oh, I’m Suzanne, Pleased to meet you.
H: Hello, I’m Henry, lovely to meet you too.

Music =]

Hi, I've been trying to find some music for certain scenes. Here they are let me know what you think.
Ryan =]

 For the operation with Schoville:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PtIHBCuR-Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv3H_SkNuRU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=disqzLW1QJA&feature=related

For Henry's Death:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGtN3lpI2f4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-j07BRzq1g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVVfPD12Ws4&feature=related