Raoul

• Parisian circus performer/dancer/comedian/physical performer
• Beautiful set, huge, dusty and full of sheets and metal bars. Old furniture.
• Minimalistic - used lights and didn't use tools, climbed on whatever
• Animals - fish, shrimp, jellyfish, woolly mammoth, these were very endearing (the fact that they were silent and remained expressionless helped, as if they were wearing masks. Exaggerated their physicality. The actors operating them had the job of moving something inanimate to give it a personality and character)
• Raoul was very funny, in a magical circus way, extremely comfortable with his body, moved quickly
• Shifted between slow and fast - like the slow motion fighting with himself, seemed to make him more than a body, as if he was placing special effects on himself
• Used some of the furniture and bric-a-brac - like the metal bin, the metal spoons, pan etc, the gramophone, the curtains
• The general idea was that he was a lovable fool, and his actions were motivated by trying to achieve some goal he generally would not achieve.