The trench tickets

Please go see the Trench tonight if you can. tickets £5 for north brook students if you use the password 'fringe'. By same company and writer as the Earnest and the pale moon play. it will really help you with your designs.

The connaught worthing

Lighting design

Please read this; very interesting chapter from Stage Lighting Design

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4viNulYb3XsC&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=lighting+theatre+design+dissertation&source=bl&ots=kxvHVOeJqK&sig=-eiO-EIj8koYhVPo3Rfp-8EfjRk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3UNmVJzGD8blavHngZgM&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=lighting%20theatre%20design%20dissertation&f=false

Pause for thought

Hello all, please let me know if it's ok to show the work tomorrow as the beginning of pause for thought and where we can do that.

thanks

Ticket offer

 We can offer tickets on these dates only to students for £5: only on Friday 14 (7.30pm) and Saturday 15 (2pm, 7.30pm) November at the Connaught Theatre.

Just quote: FRINGE and either book online or in person.

http://www.worthingtheatres.co.uk/events-by-type/theatre/name,124023,en.asp

The Trench

Les Enfants Terribles tour the UK with their award-winning show, The Trench.

From the team behind The Terrible Infants, Ernest and the Pale Moon and The Vaudevillains, comes a new play inspired by the true story of a miner who became entombed in a tunnel during World War One.

As the horror threatens to engulf him, he finds that not everything in the darkness is what it seems as he starts to discover a new, strange world beneath the mud and death. Setting off on an epic journey of salvation, the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur as he questions what’s real, what’s not and whether it even matters?

Blending live music, puppetry and physical performance, The Trench is the critically acclaimed new show from “razor sharp theatre company” Les Enfants Terribles (The Telegraph). The company has performed productions to thousands of people all over the world including theatres in Poland, Czech Republic, Dubai, Norway, Singapore, Australia, and has toured extensively all over the UK winning vast critical acclaim. 

Written by Oliver Lansley (BBC2’s Whites, ITV2’s FM and SKY’S Little Crackers) with music by acclaimed artist Alexander Wolfe. Alexander has performed with many artists including Jamie Cullen and Paul Weller before embarking on a solo career with his debut album Morning Brings a Flood winning huge acclaim from the New York Post to The Sunday Times to name a few.

Directed by James Seager and Oliver Lansley.

"A TOTAL THEATRE EXPERIENCE OF ENGROSSING INTENSITY, THE TRENCH EMPLOYS ACTING, MIME, MUSIC, PUPPETRY, FILM AND EVEN FLYING TO ENRICH HISTORY WITH THE QUALITY OF MYTH AND REINVEST AN OLD STORY WITH THE POWER IT HAS LOST THROUGH OVER FAMILIARITY…MUST SEE SHOW"

The Stage

"A PITCH PERFECT DEMONSTRATION OF ATMOSPHERIC THEATRE. LET’S EXPERIENCE IN CREATING SINISTER WORLDS WORKS PERFECTLY WITH THE SUBJECT MATTER TO CREATE A DEVASTATINGLY EMOTIVE GLIMPSE INTO HELL ON EARTH"

The List

"THE OVERALL VISION STAYS WITH YOU LIKE A STRANGE, SIGNIFICANT DREAM"

The Times

"TOTAL TRIUMPH...THIS PRODUCTION USES THEATRE TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE ANY OTHER ART FORM ACHIEVING THE SAME"

Edinburgh Evening News

lesenfantsterribles.co.uk

Best,

Antony

Antony Pickthall

Earnest work

What experiments did lighting designers try out today and what did you find out?

Remember the task to annotate the script with you initial analysis so that we can sit down and look at script analysis in more depth.


Interesting interview with lighting designer and also see the two festivals of light mentioned in article

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/11/3926355/queen-theater-lighting-jennifer-tipton-gets-spotlight-herself-two-ne


http://bringtolightnyc.org

“It’s very different, of course, trying to get on the inside of music,” said Tipton, speaking in the slow, deliberate voice of a college professor. “We together, sort of as a team, Eteri and I, have come to some understanding of the emotional impulses that come through the music. I based [the lighting] sort of loosely on the keys of the pieces, but Scriabin changes keys so quickly and so fluidly that even then it’s not possible to follow that; so it has to be an emotional reading that Eteri and I have come to together, an emotional hearing of the music.”

Appia

Can you make any connections between the Appia article we read today in the Scenography reader and your sdp's lighting designers?

The practice of lighting was completely redefined: Appia distinguished between diffused light (allowing visible scenery) and concentrated light (modelling form), believed in the ability of light to be structural, fluid, plastic and “motivated”, eliminated footlights and even created novel lighting positions.

http://socks-studio.com/2013/12/13/a-revolution-in-stage-design-drawings-and-productions-of-adolphe-appia/

Welcome to new blog

Hello BA Production, welcome to your new blog. I have added some research links for you all and will add more as we go.

Please post ideas, questions, thoughts on reading as you go that we can all respond to.