We were introduced to a theatre director called Artaud. Antonine Artaud was a French theatre director play write poet and essayist. He was born in Marselie France. Both his parents were natives of Smyrna modern Izmir and he was affected by his Greek ancestry.
His mother gave birth to nine children, but only Antonin and one sister survived infancy. When he was four years old, Artaud had a severe case of meningitis , which gave him a nervous, irritable temperament throughout his adolescence. Artaud was in the French army in 1916 .
But unfortunately he was dis-chard illegally due to excessive sleep walking. Artaud then move back to Paris to become a writer. He worked and performed with other theatre directors and continued writing poems and essays. As the years passed on Artaud began to run theatre's and directing as well as writing.
Artaud formed his theatre techniques and link them with his own interpretation of theatre. Artaud believe in the universal language which is language that everyone understood. he also believed in making the audience uncomfortable because he wanted them to be aware of what is happening.
Artaud believed in having the audience exhausted and also the actors and actresses. Artaud has various techniques that shocks the audience and also having very harsh and dramatic effect is apart of Artaud techniques. He also had repairing gestures and aggressive behaviour which also linked with how he interprets theatre.
So for the first task we were asked stand spread out in the space. We were given instructions by our teacher to follow exactly what she was saying. At first she asked to reach for sky for the sky. After this we were then asked to use levels and speed. After this exercise I was extremely exhausted and really tired. I realised that this exercise is linked to one of Artaud techniques which was that he wanted to make both the actors and the audience feel exhausted.
His mother gave birth to nine children, but only Antonin and one sister survived infancy. When he was four years old, Artaud had a severe case of meningitis , which gave him a nervous, irritable temperament throughout his adolescence. Artaud was in the French army in 1916 .
But unfortunately he was dis-chard illegally due to excessive sleep walking. Artaud then move back to Paris to become a writer. He worked and performed with other theatre directors and continued writing poems and essays. As the years passed on Artaud began to run theatre's and directing as well as writing.
Artaud formed his theatre techniques and link them with his own interpretation of theatre. Artaud believe in the universal language which is language that everyone understood. he also believed in making the audience uncomfortable because he wanted them to be aware of what is happening.
Artaud believed in having the audience exhausted and also the actors and actresses. Artaud has various techniques that shocks the audience and also having very harsh and dramatic effect is apart of Artaud techniques. He also had repairing gestures and aggressive behaviour which also linked with how he interprets theatre.
So for the first task we were asked stand spread out in the space. We were given instructions by our teacher to follow exactly what she was saying. At first she asked to reach for sky for the sky. After this we were then asked to use levels and speed. After this exercise I was extremely exhausted and really tired. I realised that this exercise is linked to one of Artaud techniques which was that he wanted to make both the actors and the audience feel exhausted.
We then advanced to the next task. We had to move around the space and what ever instruction we were given we had to follow it. For example when the teacher said the number one we had to jump up and touch the sky and if she said number two we had to roll on the floor. This again made me feel the same way as I did in the first task the only difference was is that the second task was more energetic than the first one.
Task 3 After the second task we proceeded onto the next task which we had to include the use of universal language. My classmates and I discovered that universal language is used so that everyone in the audience can understand it. For example you do not have to use words but instead you could use techniques such as hand gestures, facial expressions , breathing, and many more other techniques.
For this task we had to use breathing to create and emotion. We were divided into two groups. My group and did anger. We conveyed anger by breathing heavily as if we've just been in a massive fight. At first we did this in unison and then half way through we did it at different times.
For this task we had to use breathing to create and emotion. We were divided into two groups. My group and did anger. We conveyed anger by breathing heavily as if we've just been in a massive fight. At first we did this in unison and then half way through we did it at different times.
My classmates and I also learnt that Artaud liked the audience to feel uncomfortable. For the next task we were asked to walk around the space. An emotion would be said and we had to interact with other people to convey this emotion. For example when Emma said the word lust Pakize jump onto me and had her legs wrapped around me and I had one of my hands on her leg and one on her bottom. Our facial expressions were quite lustrous as we stared directly into each others eyes which I believed really exaggerated the word lust.
As we continued to learn about Artaud and his techniques we realised that in order for Artaud to be successful having both the audience and the actors exhausted , things really needed to be exaggerated. For the next task we had to get into a line . Emma gave us an emotion and the person who was at the start of the line had to start off this emotion and the emotion that was given has to be exaggerated as we went along. One strengths for this exercise would have when we did anger.
This is because different types of facial expressions were and levels and also hand gestures were used to express anger. I conveyed anger by keeping still and having my face in a very straight way. One of my weaknesses was when we did happy or exciting. This is because people in my class used obvious facial expressions and movement and it was very hard to try and find something different to do but what I was thinking of had already been used go along .
We then had to separate into two groups and do the same exercise. I found that this was quite easier as there were less people and it was easier to come up with and idea of how you could exaggerate and emotion
This is because different types of facial expressions were and levels and also hand gestures were used to express anger. I conveyed anger by keeping still and having my face in a very straight way. One of my weaknesses was when we did happy or exciting. This is because people in my class used obvious facial expressions and movement and it was very hard to try and find something different to do but what I was thinking of had already been used go along .
We then had to separate into two groups and do the same exercise. I found that this was quite easier as there were less people and it was easier to come up with and idea of how you could exaggerate and emotion
