Tuesday, October 17, 2006
pauses and patriotism
Hello chaps,
Just thought I would blog some brief responses to yesterday's performances of maxwell's work. I (like Laura) am still finding Maxwell's style challenging for the simple reason that, as an audience member, I found myself feeling bored and uninspired at certain points when watching 'Caveman'. Perhaps seeing it performed live would have had a different effect. However, I did find moments of comedy and intrigue in both Maxwell's 'Caveman' and our own responses to his work. The use of pauses was particularly effective as a comedic device, as was the use of an un-emotive response to a drastic or dramatic situation - ie when characters are markedly under whelmed by events such as (in my groups case) a murder.
I also liked Dan's point about under whelmed, subdued reactions appearing similar to the 'british' way of reacting to things - we don't like to make a fuss or draw attention to ourselves (at least that is the stereotype). Maybe we could use this to our advantage in keeping with the theme of citizenship - so far we have looked at foreign nationals who hope to become british citizens but have not really looked at what citizenship means to those who are born british.
Hope that's given you some food for thought.
TTFN xxLottyxx
