It was wonderful!!!
I guess I’m the first one to blog about this, and I must say that I really enjoyed the performance.One of the sad parts for me was the fact that black light theatre was used in part of the show and was much better than the actual group called Black light theatre. The show itself was very interesting and the effects were very nice. I first I thought that I would be too distracted by the projections to notice the action on stage but as it turned out there were only a couple of times that I found myself just looking at the screen for longer than I was supposed to. I rather liked the idea that this show didn’t have any actual dialogue with words, although it had a lot of dialogue with body language and expressions, I felt it still conveyed the story and that it didn’t take the audiences concentration or focus from anything else. It was well balanced. It was also very difficult to make a story that had a beginning, a middle and an end without words just projection’s and action. I really like the use of the projection and the pictures, after re-reading the text I realized that the pictures did indeed set the mood and the tone for the story. I must say that I was really captivated by the story that I realized towards the end, I wasn’t trying to see what was going behind the curtain but just focusing on the show. I really enjoyed the story but at the same time I’m trying to figure out what was the point of it? Was it that beauty and happiness are a never ending hunt? or is it that we must go through and search for what we want even though obstacles are thrown our way? I’m still thinking about that one.
During the reading I was a little confused because I felt that most of the techniques that were discussed were mostly for straight plays and not enough of the process of La turna Magika were discussed. I do like Josefs ideas but he puzzles me in the sense that he sometimes is for traditional theatre but at the same time he is finding new ways of doing theatre. He likes traditional theatre buildings but then he has this whole idea of the true theatre building. I do appreciate his appetite for needing to keep developing old and new techniques, it is a great gift to theatre today. Okay cheers folks and enjoy.
I really would like to see more of his work. Now would La Turna Magika fall under a work in progress for Josef Svoboda?
I think LM succeeds where Black Light sometimes fails. Conveying a story without language can be difficult. Think of all the things we saw where language was a factor in our being able to enjoy it or not being able to enjoy it. It makes one realize how much we rely on language. For communication we must find some common ground. This is usually verbal. I think it is worth exploring why Wonderful Circus was able to get a story across (if not a point) without relying on verbal communication and some other things (Alice, eg.) struggle.