Sorry that posts have been so sparse lately. We've been very busy staging the play before our opening on Friday! Here's another performance exercise for you to try...
PERFORMANCE EXERCISE #2
- Having discussed the poems by Hughes and Ginsberg (or any other texts you've decided to start with), have each participant bring in something that the text reminded them of.* It might be another text (like a poem or a song) or it might be an object or an image.**
- Use these new materials as inspirations for new performances. Come up with improvised scenes that use them.
*In our rehearsal process, some of the things people brought in were a woman's scarf with the American flag on it, the text of "The Internationale," a Rubick's cube, and the slogan from a Subway sandwich commercial. Some of these things made it into the show eventually.
**Try to keep things concrete. In our rehearsal process, we spoke about how eating applesauce makes people think about America. So, in the play, there's a part where people eat applecauce onstage.
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