.:Inspiration out of thin air:.

Throughout this week I kept on getting inspiration for my PPP randomly! In class, when I was eating dinner even sometimes when I woke up in the morning! So I keep having random little sketches in my diary and on pieces of paper! I have looked what sort of costumes I want, as they are standard WW1 costumes and also what they women and men war during this time, I was interested to discover that the fashion actually changed because of the war!! So I have found my costumes, and I have started sketching them onto paper roughly for my PPP and have changed some of the designs and incoperated them with other designs I have found.

Also, I have drawn my stages, I had a few different ones to choose from, and I have chosen one finally! Now that I know what stage I am using I can progress with my other stage elements. My character’s are also starting to evolve, their personalities and life histories are being created as I read more and more books on WW1 which I have used from the library. I have also decided how my main character’s brother is going to die (this introudces the main idea of loss, my main concept for my play). He is going to die in a gas scene, I saw a photo of this in one of the WW1 books and am going to use it in my inspiration for my PPP. It really helped me understand the horrific events that occured through war, and as I read sympoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Dimentia, I began to understand that loss of a close comrade or brother was a major influence which aided the onset of these diseases. Although this is a horrific topic, I feel as though I like it (theatre-wise) as it lends itself to much interpretation, and also because there is still war occurring at the moment, and I feel as though the weapons and men may have changed in war, but the the concepts of loss involved in war has not changed, it still effects family and comrades as much as it did in WW1.

I think the next task for me to undertake is going to be the naming of my characters, the specific costuming that they will wear, the set up of my lighting and the make up that i will use. I think the make up used in this play is going to naturalistic (street make up), however for my war scenes, i wish to display the muddy, bloodied faces of those who have battled in war, in particular my main character’s brother who dies in war. The expressionistic make up mini course that was held a few months ago to help us learn about expressionistic make up will aid me in this task, as we focused on the different types of blood and how these are used in a theatre production. Onwards and upwards!

 

~ by kateibtheatre on June 12, 2009.