Richard Maxwell Project

I really liked the point made about what Citizenship means to US as British citizens. Perhaps our piece could include the British Citizen's perspecitive as well as the foreign one?

I was a lot happier about Maxwell's acting style after this lesson. Saying our own stage directions aloud really hepled me to concentrate on blocking the action as opposed to emotionally reacting to it."Caveman" reminded me just how much intonation was used, and how blank the actors faces are. Perhaps another key to not emoting is to keep your facial muscles that relaxed. We also need a song in our piece! As was said in the lesson the songs in Maxwell's pieces seem to fit more naturally with the action, since it too is surreal!

I particularly liked the part where the actor corrected his friend and said his name was actually Anthony (at least i think that's right!)I think lack of human compassion is shown through many of Maxwell's plays. For example in "Flight Courier Service" even the stewardess plots against the main character. In "Billings" it appears that the couple who are moving are not listening to what each other are saying, their choices of topics are completely unrelated to each other. Maybe through the lack of emotion Maxwell is communicating a lack of general human feeling in the modern world towards life and towards each other? Just a thought

Hannah E x

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