I am very happy with our experimental piece so far
and personally believe that there is much strength to 'The Nerve Metre.’
Already it’s so very experimental and there is so much Artaud featured.
My favourite piece at the moment is the opening scene. The music is so chilled and of a type you would actually play into a club and each actor as a moment to themselves… to become whatever they wish as a character. We decided to start the piece by having a group visual image to reflect the classy, sophisticated feel at the beginning. We actually constructed this through improvisation. None of us were given directions or assigned poses to do, just told to sit around the edge of the room and to close our eyes and feel the music. When we felt it was time, our only job was to get up one by one and slowly move into the centre and create a visual image which represented a sophisticated and classy character.
My favourite piece at the moment is the opening scene. The music is so chilled and of a type you would actually play into a club and each actor as a moment to themselves… to become whatever they wish as a character. We decided to start the piece by having a group visual image to reflect the classy, sophisticated feel at the beginning. We actually constructed this through improvisation. None of us were given directions or assigned poses to do, just told to sit around the edge of the room and to close our eyes and feel the music. When we felt it was time, our only job was to get up one by one and slowly move into the centre and create a visual image which represented a sophisticated and classy character.
At first, this exercise wasn’t completely successful..
but that was good! We could learn. We didn’t consider space or levels so the
image didn’t look as effective to an audience as we wished it to be. Once a few
of us walked out from the image and had a moment to inspect for ourselves, we were
able to improve it.
It was a relevant idea for us to appear as posh, classy and sophisticated people as that set an image to be contorted and squashed as the journey of the play progresses. What makes it so exciting is that us actors move on pure feeling and motion, and that’s also experimental. There is no set order in which we walk onto the centre stage so it’s spontaneous and different each time.
It was a relevant idea for us to appear as posh, classy and sophisticated people as that set an image to be contorted and squashed as the journey of the play progresses. What makes it so exciting is that us actors move on pure feeling and motion, and that’s also experimental. There is no set order in which we walk onto the centre stage so it’s spontaneous and different each time.
We began devising separate scenes for the piece in
small groups which I think is very interesting to see what we’ve all thought of
and how we choose to perform it.
We created the piece by assigning gestures and
movements to the words of 'The Nerve Metre' poem, and as the poem will be
played in a distorted and edited fashion at the end, we will perform the
actions to accompany it. I think this is an incredibly strong aspect of our
piece as visually, it looks interesting, and the whole point of our piece is
that when people enter the room, they will be overcome by unique and obscure
visual effects.
Another effective element of our piece is how the order of our separate scenes has not been set. It will be improvised on the night depending on what the audience pick. I think it’s a good idea to involve the audience as it really brings them in on our performance and makes them feel even more as if they are a part of our performance and actually in The Nerve Meter. I think that including the audience is a really clever idea, as this will allow them to feel fully engaged in the performance.
In terms of how we need to develop our piece, I just think it needs to be tightened and more rehearsed. I’m a really big fan of our piece, I can’t lie, and if we keep the energy high and stay committed throughout it should be amazing. It has the potential to be awesome and so effective if we just rehearse it some more and make it as successful as we can.
Another effective element of our piece is how the order of our separate scenes has not been set. It will be improvised on the night depending on what the audience pick. I think it’s a good idea to involve the audience as it really brings them in on our performance and makes them feel even more as if they are a part of our performance and actually in The Nerve Meter. I think that including the audience is a really clever idea, as this will allow them to feel fully engaged in the performance.
In terms of how we need to develop our piece, I just think it needs to be tightened and more rehearsed. I’m a really big fan of our piece, I can’t lie, and if we keep the energy high and stay committed throughout it should be amazing. It has the potential to be awesome and so effective if we just rehearse it some more and make it as successful as we can.
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