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this was another heavy inspiration for our piece as the themes from Alice in Wonderland were somewhat directly linked with our own

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZMse8YqDs

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https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/stanislavski-in-7-steps-better-understanding-stanisklavskis-7-questions/ - photo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Actor_Prepares - photo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_Cruelty#/media/File:Artaud_BNF.jpg -photo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht - photo

http://theactorsstudio.org/studio-history/ - photo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mjofllsvkE - video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZMse8YqDs - video

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we all had previously done some of Sarah Kane's work before but 4.48 psychosis was our favourite by far, as there was an vast number 4.48 could be devised from and performed

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mjofllsvkE

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Lee's training of method acting would be of great help to us, this is becuase he believed that his actor should experience what is happening in their character's life

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This is again to help mine and Connor's character seem more like one person. As Rudie and Rodrick are the same person, I thought it would be a good idea to lip sync each others lines. This would give a clearer image to the audience, about what we were trying to portray

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During the rehearsals of our performance , I have felt like mine and Connor's character always seemed like two different people instead of the same character. Therefore I have suggested that me and Connor perform in unison more, so we changed certain scenes. For example the first scene, we had planned to only have Connor slam the table, but it works more effictively, physically and visually, as now the table is seen being lifted off the ground to represent a strong hit againist the split personality disorder

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The metaphorical cage is a term only mentioned a few times during our performance. Although its not spoken of much , it holds a great important to Rudie/Rodrick. For example the last scene, Rodrick says to Rudie, "you caged me up like a dog", whilst he is trapped under the table. This is implies the table acts as a cage for Rodrick in his split personality disorder, it can also be seen as a wall to Rudie/Rodrick's split personality disorder. An example of a break in Rudie/Rodrick's split personality disorder is during the first scene where Rudie and Rodrick slam the table down

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Although he is not visually present for long, the father is mentally present and his the key point to everyone's disorder. When Maddie and Rudie were still infants, the father had made an attempt to end Maddie's life , this guilt was too strong for him to cope with, so he left a suicide note for his wife and killed himself. His death is the reason for Mother's excessive drinking and babing of Rudie, Maddie's schizophrenia and nymphomania, Rudie's fragile form and split personality disorder

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Riddled with guilt over the death of her husband, the mother is a heavy drinker. This amount of alcohol consumption has lead to multiple occasions where she has abused Maddie in different ways, as she intationally blames Maddie for the death of her husband. However this is not the case for her son, Rudie. Mother treats Rudie in an entirely different light to how she treats Maddie, for example the second scene Maddie is shouting at Rudie, after Mother sees this she throws a bottle at her, drags her offstage and hits her in front of the audience but then immediately run back up to Rudie to comfort him and then sings him a luaby

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Cousin to Maddie and Rudie, Eddie is visiting from out of town for his birthday. Although he avoids and tries to break up arguments, Eddie mainly acts as a catalyst for the already unstable Maddie. For example the birthday scene, Eddie and Rudie reminisced about a happy memory, that didnt include Maddie, which makes her to act out as she wasn't the centre of attention

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Maddie is the elder sister of Rudie and daughter of the mother. From a young age Maddie has had schizophrenia, causing her to always be the centre of attention and be very emotionally unstable. Then later on in her teen years she was unofficially diagnosed as a nymphomaniac, which causes her to rape her brother out of love. These emotionally unbalances and disorders are due to years of physical, mental and emotional abuse from her mother, blaming her for the death of her husband.

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For our new performance we decided to keep our links to Artaud and did research into him and who he was inspired by .
Edgar Allen Poe was one of many playwrights that had given a lot of influence to Artaud. The Fall of the House of Usher was a play Poe had written which had heavy links into Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty

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Rudie and Rodrick are the same character. At an early age Rudie experienced a tragedy, causing him to create another persona to help him cope with this tragedy, but after years of being babied by his mother, Rudie's alternate persona had developed into split personality disorder. This characters name is Rodrick. Rodrick is Rudie's alternate persona. Created at a young age, Rodrick is the more violent and aggressive persona, compared to Rudie who is timid and won't stand up for himself. However Rodrick is created, so he still needs Rudie's body because he is not the host or in control of Rudie.

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Rudie/Rodrick
Maddie
Eddie
Mother
Father

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To start devising we had to choose some elements to add to our performance, that were from The Fall of the House of Usher. We took the themes of incest, murder and illusion, and we also took the names of the characters, this was to give a clear insight as to what we were devising from and the themes would be enhanced by the theatre of cruelty and naturalism

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We had decided not to have other idea brainstorm as we could implement some of our previous ideas to a devised performance.
we had chose to devise from The Fall of the House of Usher

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In a turn of fortunate events, we had gained two extra performers and then had to change our idea to accommodate five performers

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Our we had chose Artaud as our main practitioner and then Stanislavski to support our ideas for Artaud. We had chosen Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty as it had a number of ways to stimulate ideas for our performance, and as our group consisted of actors, we also chose Stanislavski to support Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty because of Stanislavski's belief in the practice of naturalism  would make the Theatre of Cruelty performance more believable

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Our first actions in creating a performance was to write down all of our ideas into a brainstorm.
Below is our first idea Brainstorm

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Creator of Method Acting

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Secondly we then had thoughts to gather information on different practitioners to help create our performance based on the initial idea brainstorm. We choose four practitioners:
Stanislavski
Brecht
Artaud
Strasberg

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Brecht was one of the four practitioners that would help us create and develop our performance

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Our introduction lesson into Artaud was a memorable one, we were lead into the theatre, believing that we were going to relax but instead we was tricked. It started out bright with peaceful music and then turned dark with horror like music as to imitate something from a nightmare. This was an introduction and exercise into Artaud's theatre of cruelty. The exercise was designed to play on our emotions and then later toy with our minds, hence leading us into a false sense of security with the brightly lit room and peaceful music which then turned nightmare-like. I learned that Artaud's theatre of cruelty can be a very rewarding style of acting for the creative thought inputed, it personally is one of my preferred styles as it opens up a lot of ideas for creativity

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Creator of Epic Theatre

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Creator of the System

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Schizophrenia
Split Personality Disorder
Nymomaniac

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Andre Breton was the founder of the surrealist movement in Paris, 1924
He was a major influence on how Artaud saw the world and theatre, he would also affect his future

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Artaud was a member of the surrealist movement during the 1920s

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Madman
Genius
Inspiration
Mentally ill
Poet
Writer
Actor
Director

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Creator of Theatre of Cruelty

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This lesson somewhat evolved and was linked to the book, An actor prepares. Looking at chapter 6, we did a muscle relaxation exercise (this was done before an actor starts looking at the character), i learned from exercise that going into a character can only be achieved proper with a clear mind and a relaxed body