First off, it was nice to be back after being out sick last week. We were informed that we are to work in groups to develop or expand existing material into 5 min. acts, need to make the material open so that others can flow into each other. We need to keep in mind the 4 aspects when developing these acts
1. Geography
2. Events
3. Outside forces/perspectives
4. Issues/incidents
Each person must develop one 5 min act. We have content and different styles our job is to figure out how to make it flow together. We also need conceive of how to use the space with the acts; up and down and audience. How do we incorporate the "King Coal" speech?
The start of the play of so far was to have Ryan and myself walking around to the "workers" (who are working at their jobs, noise is going on) we start saying to these workers the demands of the strike:
1. Dead Work Pay
2. Laws Enforced
3. Workers Elect Own Weigh men
4. 8 Hour Day
5. Choose Our Lives
6. Wages Increased
7. Trade Anywhere
8. Union
From this we move into the "Company Spy" typing up what he saw and than into "The Death Special" which moves into George's monologue and than into the reading of the names of the dead.
I liked how this was developing, with a little more practice I think it would be a good starting point.
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