Through the Looking Glass: Aishlinn Parrinello Theater Notes/Reflections

 how does mobile achieve the goals of paper birds' theater making and intentions?  - including verbatim interviews: specific sound clips possibly from interviews or voice actors reading, shows real life experiences of people and shares their stories  - realistic while incorporating some interesting movements at times --> when she would open the TV, go to sit down and one of the voice clips would play, be lost in memory (with the projectors), would do almost lyrical movements, unrealistic to regular body movements,   - a realistic portrayal of class mobility: how things change all the time, from generation to generation, focus on family relationships and class mobility  - brought an ordinary space alive to truly make it a theater experience - interaction with the audience  - a final message that relates to the umbrella theme  - a theater piece that is multimedia + audience interaction/participation  - a unique theater experience that discus...

 What is new to you?  - When devising as a group, it is important to have an understanding of what you want to achieve and to decide on the direction of the piece  - choosing an umbrella theme at the start of the devising process then think about political and social issues that could be used as this umbrella theme  - the Paper birds use verbatim interviews within their catalogue of work - they develop research within their theme  - develop contrasting characters (on the spot)  - use images to affect your movement work that leads to devising  - individuals involved in the devising process can and should affect the work you are making  - work on creating a collage of voices that allows different fragments and approaches to the umbrella theme to be heard and engaged with simultaneously by the audience  - experiment with different devising exercises... synchronization with sticks, improv with a letter, etc.  What is interesting to you?...

  Overall I really enjoyed working on this movement and emotion work the past couple of weeks. I think my favorite aspect of this type of work is the directing, but I also enjoy the speaking and movement aspects of these projects. I thought it was interesting to compare these pieces to the movement pieces that we put together at the beginning of the year. I know that the intention was a bit different with these pieces given that we were modeling these pieces off of Frantic Assembly’s Things I Know to be True and with song lyrics, but I think that these pieces paid special attention to group movement and creating different dynamics between the people in each piece. I think that because we were trying to relate our pieces to TIKTBT, most of us chose movements and song lyrics that held meaning significant to the show. For example, my movement piece was to the song “Stay Down” by Boygenius, and was meant to represent the character Pip. I chose this song because I thought the lyrics ...