Through the Looking Glass: Aishlinn Parrinello Theater Notes/Reflections

 Lord Huron - "The Night We Met"  --> Would probably be from Bob and Fran or Rosie's perspective after the family seems to fall apart and the children all leave.  I am not the only traveler Who has not repaid his debt I've been searching for a trail to follow again Take me back to the night we met And then I can tell myself What the hell I'm supposed to do And then I can tell myself Not to ride along with you I had all and then most of you Some and now none of you Take me back to the night we met I don't know what I'm supposed to do Haunted by the ghost of you Oh, take me back to the night we met When the night was full of terrors And your eyes were filled with tears When you had not touched me yet Oh, take me back to the night we met I had all and then most of you Some and now none of you Take me back to the night we met I don't know what I'm supposed to do Haunted by the ghost of you Take me back to the night we met Another Possibility would b...

Tension:  There is a conflict for each character in the show  Tension between family members or one family member vs. the rest of the family  ROSIE:  Rosie is returning from her solo trip in Europe. She is disappointed with herself because she expected to meet new people and have the time of her life and grow up and become a new person. Instead she was mostly lonely and missing her family, who in her eyes were beautiful and probably not perfect but were the world to her. She returns heartbroken after she thinks she has met the love of her life but he instead steals her things and leaves her. She doesn’t want to seem foolish to her family who all expected to be gone for longer; she doesn’t want to admit that they were right in that she would be lonely traveling by herself. This is part of Rosie’s inner conflict, she feels naive (and she is) and stupid for failing at her attempts to seem grown up to her family.  At the end of the show, Rosie has finally figured ou...

All about family dynamics Play went through family relationships with each character  Starts with Rosie, has no real problem with either parent, the one who wears rose glasses, is still a kid at heart and romanticizes her family and everyone in it  Pip has fallen in love with someone who isn’t her husband and has decided to move to Vancouver → has a very strained relationship with Fran, Fran sees that Pip is the most like herself and therefore she is the hardest on her, sometimes to where she is cold, almost manipulative Mark/Mia comes out as transgender, neither of her parents fully except her but they both love her so they seem to make some effort, but she moves to Sydney Ben admits that he has moved money around too much at his job illegally and may get arrested, Fran is sympathetic because Ben is the one child she is the most lenient with, Bob flips out and has no sympathy for Ben Fran reveals to Bob that she fell out of love with him some time ago, she fell in love with s...

  Play based off of the family life of the screenplay writer  Made a huge storyboard with everything important that happens in the show to work from  Apparently a very Australian play  “Unshamedly captures the social economic shift of an Australian working class family  Majority of show plays out in the back garden  Did not try to make the actors use Australian or specifically British accents, just wanted them to use their own voices  A long process developing the script and show but a short process (only a month) rehearsing  Explored generational tensions through improvisation with a cast that had a wide range of ages  Key theme in this show of HOME

  Devised Theater: A method of theater-making where the script or performance score originates from collaborative/improvisatory work by a performing ensemble.  Devised theater “typically begins with little more than a rehearsal space and a group of eager, committed theater practitioners”  Decide on what kinds of stories they’d like to tell and how they’d like to tell them Often begins without a script and the script gets “written” as the rehearsal process takes place through a series of improvisations and collaborations  “A process in which the whole creative team develops a show collaboratively. From actors to technicians, everyone is involved in the creative process.”  A strong tool in creating conversations within an audience  Frantic Assembly: physical theater company  One of the most studied theater companies  Things I Know To Be True: tells the story of a family and marriage through the eyes of four grown siblings struggling to define themse...