http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGV4hxhxW8o
I chose to include this scene/video within my blog because I wanted to look at the other side of disability, the negative aspects, and the things I hate about it and my brother. However, like the end of the poem in this video, it doesnt make me love him any less. This also fits in with Gem's feedback regarding the list of things that I hate. I want to include a poem similar to this one in my performance that is short and to the point that shows how much my brothers disability annoys and frustrates me, but it does not stop me loving him unconditionally.
Monday, 4 April 2011
DV8 - The Cost of living
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cx-5qC-17k
Unlike To Be Straight With You, Dv8's The Cost of Living is not documentary but deals with disability instead of homosexuality. This video does not show the whole televised episode however. The piece was not made as a theatre performance because it was made into a one-off episode for television, but it deals with similar issues as DV8's play To Be Straight With You, in that it looks at disabilities and how to live with them. What interest me the most about this is the dancing and physical theatre that is used throughout, and is something that I want to encorporate in my piece.
Unlike To Be Straight With You, Dv8's The Cost of Living is not documentary but deals with disability instead of homosexuality. This video does not show the whole televised episode however. The piece was not made as a theatre performance because it was made into a one-off episode for television, but it deals with similar issues as DV8's play To Be Straight With You, in that it looks at disabilities and how to live with them. What interest me the most about this is the dancing and physical theatre that is used throughout, and is something that I want to encorporate in my piece.
DV8 - To Be Straight With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_MiU6ucj60
DV8 is a theatre company that have produced a verbatim/documentary piece of theatre based on and around homosexuality and its perception in society. The piece utilises technology and music and shows how homosexuality is tolerated or not in different societies. This is what I am looking at with regards to disability and it has given me an idea to look at documentary theatre in my piece. I want to explore disability in my performance using the actual words and interviews that I intend to conduct.
DV8 is a theatre company that have produced a verbatim/documentary piece of theatre based on and around homosexuality and its perception in society. The piece utilises technology and music and shows how homosexuality is tolerated or not in different societies. This is what I am looking at with regards to disability and it has given me an idea to look at documentary theatre in my piece. I want to explore disability in my performance using the actual words and interviews that I intend to conduct.
Bo Burnham - Rapper and Wordsmith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LzgYWCgkZk
I like both the humour in this video, as well as the word play Bo Burnham uses. I don't want to use the rap or the humour so much in my performance, but the play on words that he uses. I think that I can use this to make a point about disbailities and peoples perceptions of them.
I like both the humour in this video, as well as the word play Bo Burnham uses. I don't want to use the rap or the humour so much in my performance, but the play on words that he uses. I think that I can use this to make a point about disbailities and peoples perceptions of them.
Tim Minchin - Taboo Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ9_Jba_PcY
This song works very well in comedy as it plays on our expectations and turns them on their head. The audience assumes he is talking about the racist word 'nigger', but he is actually playing on this assumption and reveals half way through that he is actually talking about the word 'ginger'. This is something I want to try and use in my piece if possible, I want to play on the audiences assumptions and talk about disability, but make it seem like I am talking about something else to begin with. However, I am not musically talented, so I will not be singing or playing like Tim Minchin does.
This song works very well in comedy as it plays on our expectations and turns them on their head. The audience assumes he is talking about the racist word 'nigger', but he is actually playing on this assumption and reveals half way through that he is actually talking about the word 'ginger'. This is something I want to try and use in my piece if possible, I want to play on the audiences assumptions and talk about disability, but make it seem like I am talking about something else to begin with. However, I am not musically talented, so I will not be singing or playing like Tim Minchin does.
Lee Evans - Stand Up comedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBnmPNozg9k
I love the physicality of Lee Evans. He impersonates characters really well, with different accents, voices, actions and gestures for every new character. But I also admire his observations. This is what makes him so funny, and is something that I want to use in the begining sectio of my piece. I want to use the same range of accents and voices, as well as develop my comic part so that it is just as physical as in this video.
I love the physicality of Lee Evans. He impersonates characters really well, with different accents, voices, actions and gestures for every new character. But I also admire his observations. This is what makes him so funny, and is something that I want to use in the begining sectio of my piece. I want to use the same range of accents and voices, as well as develop my comic part so that it is just as physical as in this video.
Knots physical theatre dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I74MBor-roQ
I love this piece of dance. Especially the middle section when they are in their cubicles. There is a lot of anger and frustration within these dances and this is something I definately want to encorporate into my piece; wither the sense of being trapped inside a diabled persons body and not being able to escape, or the sense of anger and frustration that comes when experiencing discrimination. The music too is something that I want to consider very closely as it adds to the piece.
I love this piece of dance. Especially the middle section when they are in their cubicles. There is a lot of anger and frustration within these dances and this is something I definately want to encorporate into my piece; wither the sense of being trapped inside a diabled persons body and not being able to escape, or the sense of anger and frustration that comes when experiencing discrimination. The music too is something that I want to consider very closely as it adds to the piece.
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