Thoughts as a group:
- Seeing if 5 different directors with different ideas can create 1 play - demanding for audience and actors
- Some disliked it - uninteresting/unimpressive
- An experiment
- An organised game
- A good way to spend an afternoon
- Weird
- Everyone can enjoy any theatre - it's a physical gift, people are there in front of you
- We appreciate the effort that was real and shown by the actors when they danced
- Extreme duration
- They played with theories of performance
My review:
The performance was a gift - the actors were giving the audience their bodies and minds. What was special about this play was the effort they showed, the sweat and exhaustion. An audience appreciates this effort and it adds something to a play which engages an audience.
In the play the actors explored different theories of what acting and performance should be, and were ironically discussing it in jerky, monotonous tones, as if they were acting very badly. I thought the idea of the play was interesting and innovative, and enjoyed it. I thought there was an element of naughtiness about the actors, as if they were defying the director by saying how they hated acting, and by all trying to outdo each other in the dance. The play made me consider performance: I now believe that performance doesn't have to be particularly epic or tragic, or famous or extravagant. I think it is enough for you to know that effort has gone into making a gift just for you. Just the fact of actors physically being there is entertainment, and a pleasure, no matter what they are doing.
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