About the Group Project

As both of the projects I am working on right now start to become more and more real, I realize that inevitably some elements will be common, as I seem to have only one brain and personality. In the beginning this was extremely frightening for me, but as time goes by I start to think that by forcing myself to separate the one from the other will be no good.

Here are my first ideas of the basic elements of the group project. Hopefully this i sonly a draft and all these ideas will be transformed as the rehearsals will start.

• The text and the story have a linear form, which is something that I would live to see on stage. With the help of the scenography and the choreography the actor will move in the space in a straight line. There will be a starting and an ending point and the five different states of the characters consciousness will be visible as the character will move and speak.
• We have decided during the last meeting that we wanted a male presence. Connecting this idea to the mythical river gods, Charon and of course the man in the poem we use that drowns first in the river, I have started thinking of creating a mix of sounds using the actual sound of a river flowing and combine this to a male voice speaking, using  words or small phrases from Inferno and Hamlet. This voice will refer to the character on the stage and we can play with the volume and the intensity of it to create a kind of a dialogue with the female character.
• The actress (Martina) will be using the lyrics of the poem. During the rehearsals we will try to transform those words from lyrics to sound.We will be based in repetition and in the voice's expressive tone. The actual body will be in contrary to that. The use of all 3 levels of space is required at this point and I'd like to see a simple and alienated figure, free from facial expressions as if she is wearing a mask BUT without using one.
• The lights will be very simple as well. I was thinking of playing a lot with shadows and light. One light at the starting point of the actress's moving line will be enough to indicate that the character is moving from life/joy/light to death/sorrow/shadow and ends in the river. An idea of how we will represent the river is video projections that will surround the actress and illuminate as well with the colors we want.

These for now... Looking forward for our next progression meeting on Monday!