Tuesday, 13 November 2007

Twelfth note

We have performed on Sunday and yesterday, the new version of Round Cabbage at Sirály. Tonight we will do it again. We play the bottle game, we pose questions to the audience. Afterwords we try to build in to the scenes what they tell us. It is really really hard. And the solutions what we found were mostly verbal, exept for one thing. We ask for qualities of another person (the question is: What makes you fall in love with someone else?), and we pick small objects from a bag (for example: a shaver, a matchbox, a little plastic toy figure, a bottle cork, tissues) which we associate with the qualities what the audience tells.
It is interesting to experience how difficult it is to react right in the moment. It is good education for being present. But I don't think this is the best solution for presence and reality on stage. It reminds me more a very planed trick of a magician. The spontaneity is an effect just, which enchants the audience.

You have started your course yesterday in Nepal. I really wonder how it goes. And what you will think afterwords.
I understand very well, what you have wrote to me in the comment; travelling with a friend can be easier, and maybe gives more freedom, than travelling alone.

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