Week 11 - Group Performance Work

Today we introduced our idea to Ildiko. She liked our plan of exploring the themes of Game of Thrones (although she had never seen the show) but thought we would have to find another layer to look into, otherwise the piece would turn out a bit flat and one-dimensional.

We continued working on the piece, staying with GOT. We decided to explore a storytelling exercise we did before on a lecture with Dan, starting by thinking about things everyone in the group (except for Roosa) loves about Game of Thrones. Roosa thought about why she does not watch the show. How the exercise works, is one person starts it by saying something quite normal and the others follow the lead. While more things are being said, they turn into bizarre or even nasty things. In the exercise everyone starts their sentence the same. We decided our sentences start with, "I fucking love Game of Thrones, because..." except Roosa says, "I fucking hate Game of Thrones, because...". We planned a series of movements for it as well to make it more interesting.

The rest of the session we worked on chair duets. We all thought that the themes (love, rivalry, sex, family, war, etc) of Game of Thrones could quite easily be turned into stories using the chairs. We had used the chairs before and already had one chair duet ready but thought there was more in it to work on. We came up with the following scene:

Now our next job is to find the new layer to the piece and give the performance more depth. We will continue working on it next week.