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[OohFeeshy]

I presume this is the best section I'm going to get for the question. Anyhoo, our drama assessment is based around myths and legens. Our group has chosen to do the Trojan War. We have some slight problems though. We've now been told our piece must include

1 artaud scene
1 music and movement scene
1 physical scene
1 scene with somebody else's text in
Prolouge
Epilouge
And AFAIK, 1 Brekt scene

Well, fair enough, but we only had ~5 scenes originally. Our original plan was

Prolouge
Scene 1- Apple of Discord, possibly with someone else's text.
Scene 2- Paris kidnapps Helen and goes off to Troy (style undecided)
Scene 3- Either
Menelaus gathers suitors, style undecided
or
Army tries to sail off, the whole Agamemnon story stuff, physical scene

Scene 4- Undecided
Scene 5- Fight between Achilles and Hector, death of both.
Epilouge

Our main problem at the moment is what to do for the music and movement scene. We can chose our own music, but it can't be too long. None of our original scenes are very.... suitable, so I was trying to think of another scene to do, but drew a blank. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Ginge]

I am also a drama student here at the moment were on our final assment on non naturalistic drama we already dsone Breckt or whatever i hated it.

 

[andywg]

1 Brecht scene? I didn't know he did a play on the Trojan wars?

I would probably go for the fight scene as music and movement, that way you can choreograph the movement for it (though try and avoid cliched music).

Brechtian is made for prologues and epilogues. He is noted for having narrators as well as making it very plain to the audience that what is happeneing is not real. The message is more important than recreating life. I would be tempted to have it as part of the epilogue, if you have any set pieces or props you could have a narrator talking of the main points (deception, war, love etc) while the stage is slowly dismantled behind him/her.

Can you combine styles, so have a brechtian scene as above, but by using script from a different piece that fits in with the message you want to convey?

Just my thoughts...

 

[OohFeeshy]

I would probably go for the fight scene as music and movement, that way you can choreograph the movement for it (though try and avoid cliched music).

We've already done the fight scene as artaudian, it doesn't involve much fighting, as such, mainly the death etc. But, I'll see what the others say...

Brechtian is made for prologues and epilogues. He is noted for having narrators as well as making it very plain to the audience that what is happeneing is not real. The message is more important than recreating life. I would be tempted to have it as part of the epilogue, if you have any set pieces or props you could have a narrator talking of the main points (deception, war, love etc) while the stage is slowly dismantled behind him/her.

Can you combine styles, so have a brechtian scene as above, but by using script from a different piece that fits in with the message you want to convey?

Just my thoughts...

We've already done the prologue and epilogue too, but I have a feeling we're not doing Brecht any more, I need to ask. We can combine styles I think, yes, but TBH I think we need a complete overhaul, now knowing all the suff we have to do...

 

[andywg]

It's a strange thing to suddenly ask people to do (a brecht scene). I didn't really cover the "theatrical spectrum" from Brecht to Stanivlavsky until A level.

Possibly have soldiers getting ready and leaving as the music scene...? (maybe a more personal level of the soldier at home packing and leaving the wife and kids? Not exactly realistic, but that would make it all the more Brechtian... )