i am really interested into looking more at the theme of animalistic tendancies. Prehaps the characters could have an animalistic nature to them, ie- slightly distorted. They could wear masks or parts of masks that represent their character. Woyzeck could have slightly apeish features, taken from the bit when the sergent says, "there's a good monkey" and the drum major is said to "fly like an eagle". Im not talking about it looking comical but for example the drum major could have quite a long pointy nose and beady eyes....

I also really like the style of the pictures i put up before and Flroence said we could definately take the distorted geometric style, and colours of these paintings. the cave paintings also fit well with this!

I went to go and see Satygraha by Phillip Glass, designed by Julian Crouch and i really like the use of the huge puppets- i felt it was really effective, i will post a picture of what im talking about, its always an idea, but making them fit better to the cochrane rather than the colloseum!

GUESS WHAT! my grandpa is in the freemasons, the people Woyzeck is afraid of. OOERRR! should ask him what its about but i dont think he's allowed to talk about it, could be getting that very wrong though. i'll ask mama mein xxxx

Cave Painting

reminds me of the paintings charlie put up, and its quite primal.

http://www.teachersnetwork.org/powertolearn/web/Prehistory%20Web%20Quest/images/cave_painting_l.jpg

http://community.brandrepublic.com/blogs/campbelllacebetablog/lascauxbulls.jpg

apparently this is actually a depiction of a performance

http://www.geneseo.edu/~blood/cave.jpg

i couldn't figure out how to resize the pics so have left them as links

Louie Spence shows us how to do acting metamorphosis

This is relevant as a lot of Woyzeck is about the underlying animalistic nature of humans. it would be interesting if the actors were choreographed to have certain quirks that weren't really obvious but subtly hinted at an uncivilised, untainted nature. also was thinking about the different viewpoints and how underneath we're all just animals (although i dont know about the captain so this might not really fit) but basically we put the 'animals' literally underneath the real action. so two levels. am i looking at the animal thing to much? i think i might be but anyway just throwing it out there.

florence

Theatre Of Cruelty.

Created by Antonin Artaud. He believed the theaters function was to rid audiences of the repressive effects of civilisation and liberate their instinctual energy the proposed to do so by shocking them with mythic spectacles that would include groans, screams, pulsating lights and oversized stage puppets. An example is Les Cenci.

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different sets i found from Woyzeck....

influences

i was looking at some art that i thought may influence us, i like the style of these paintings, and the man seems to remind me of the captain!!