1984 Theatre Notes

1984 Theatre Notes 

We are using 7 locations:

1)Lecture theatre 

2)Class room 418 411 415 413 

3)The space

4)And all the hall ways 

5)And the green space 

6)Turning circle near the big trees outside
7)Outside 

411 - The going to be room 101 the torture room. They torture you with your fear. We can get torture tools, torture hand book, people screaming down in the other room. 

413 - food hall, we could be serving the audience oats and discussing food to get to know hoe life felt in that time.

415 - o'brains office/ there will be video of the audience moving room and videos of the thought  criminals 

The space - the group hate room, where there will be footage of the rebellions and the revolution. 

In the hall ways - videos of the education on the lockers and propaganda slongs and 

Lecture theatre - reception area where very cold people will be talking " thank you can you come here" 

Outside : court yard - area of excise and joy camps that are actual  forced  labour camps.  

Outside area when the rebels want the audience to join them and take then around 

We are gonna be creative a immersive theatre experience.

We are creating something they audience led, The audience are like a performance as well. 

All the audience will be wear mask, the set must be detail and used with detail , sight, touch, smell .

Some of the space will have multimedia in them, With special effects etc. 

The audience is their own story teller. The performance will last 1 hour but we are going to create 4 or 5 hours of performance 

For example a strong beginning when we get there emails etc. And get masks then they will be release to walk around 

Are play is going to be 2015 not 1984. We will have a type of Revolution. 

(Research other companies)

You need to think about the set and the props you will need in your  performance. 

We need to think of the type of costumes they would have warn.There will be a very security army Leading people around.

1984 Film 

• Life is very controlled they do what they are told, they get told to stretch in the morning and put on the track suit and go to breakfast with everyone else. 

•  Everybody wears the same thing , the woman's and the men. People live alone, for example, the men sleep in a room by there self and the woman sleep in a house all by there self. 

• The technology is not advanced as technology today at all and it is obvious to notice. 

• The roads look like a war scene and it is all wrecked. 

• A woman falls and main character picks her up. She has a broken arm as well. Also they did this because she gave him a note saying I love you . This is the woman he loves and she loves him too.

• They had little child that go around calling people a thought criminal. They will have public executions and people will cheer as they kill someone. 

• They use propaganda to trick people that everything is OK and nothing is wrong .

• The hope they have is they can't get inside you. 

• Theme: betrayal  - Winston smith betrays Julia and Julia betrays Winston Smith 

Immersive Theatre Companies

YouMeBumBumTrain

Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd created the company back in 2004 - an audience of one, a cast of hundreds. You have to be game, but not necessarily brave.
http://bumbumtrain.co.uk

Artichoke

Artichoke are a creative company who help produce large scale public theatre and art - including the Sultan’s Elephant.
http://www.artichoke.uk.com/

66 Minutes

The production of Lebanese director Lucien Bourjeily, ‘66 Minutes’ is an interactive production in which the audience are placed as a group of tourists visiting the Syrian capital only to be arrested by the Syrian secret service.

Punchdrunk

Punchdrunk, created by Felix Barrett, have been creating innovative, immersive theatre, often in collaboration with major artistic companies such as the National Theatre and ENO, and film maker Adam Curtis, since 2000.
www.punchdrunk.org.uk

dreamthinkspeak

Tristan Sharps founded this company in 1999. A Brighton based group which specialises in site-responsive productions.
www.dreamthinkspeak.com

Secret Cinema

They create large-scale cultural experiences in abandoned spaces, fusing film, music, theatre and installations. Audiences explore ultra-immersive worlds where fiction and reality blur.

http://www.secretcinema.org/

Audience is the storyteller!

The audience is left free to roam the multiple rooms of intricately designed, theatrically lit stage sets. Creating hazy moments of sensory spectacle,

They can explore empty rooms, rummage in draws, read notes, letters and books. A phone booth that actually works?

Audience will be inside the space, walking through site-specific installations, choosing what scenes to see, changing and elaborating the text, creating movements and physically responding to actions to create site-responsive theatre. The performance will never be the same.

Combining text, movement, video, objects, sound, lights and visuals, we aim for a ‘total experience’, for ‘transportation performances’ that result in rendering powerful emotions and eye-opening adventure

Immersive Theatre

Immersive Theatre is all about creating participative theatre experiences in which audience members give up their “observer’’ status to become co-actors and co-creators of the narrative and of the storytelling process. Our audience members are action wise performers who direct the story by taking decisions, choosing from infinite options and negotiating the process.

‘Immersive theatre’ has shifted the spotlight toward experiential design-led performance, in which the audience is the centre of the action. This proliferation of immersive performance work demonstrates a public appetite for hedonistic theatrical thrills, where the audience is offered an ‘authentic’ experience in a realistic staged environment.

1984 Rules of engagement

The audience must be dressed in boiler suits (or something cheaper, sash?)

·     The audience is given free reign to explore a massive set

·  The set engages multiple senses—sight, sound, smell, touch—and has an incredibly detailed design

·     The set must be large enough to get lost in or to feel totally alone at moments

·     The set lighting is typically quite dark with deliberate, staged pockets of light

Immersive Theatre Companies :

http://www.artichoke.uk.com/

Artichoke 

Artichoke are a creative company who help produce large scale public theatre and art - including the Sultan’s Elephant.ARTICHOKE IS A CREATIVE COMPANY THAT WORKS WITH ARTISTS TO INVADE OUR PUBLIC SPACES AND PUT ON EXTRAORDINARY AND AMBITIOUS EVENTS THAT LIVE IN THE MEMORY FOREVER...

Artichoke Trust was founded in 2005 by Helen Marriage and Nicky webb. They work with artist to create extraordinary, large-scale events that appeal to the widest possible audience.Since 2006, Artichoke has produced several large-scale events across the country, from London to Liverpool; from light festivals to giant mechanical spiders. Nearly all Artichoke events are free to attend, and attract members of the public in thousands.

Chair of Development Board, Daniel Peltz has been nominated as 'Board Member of the Year' in the Arts and Business Awards.  It's easy to see why, since he joined Artichoke in 2009 he has been a huge supporter of the company, and at a time of increasing cuts to the arts, has been instrumental in seeking out new sources of funding, helping raise target of £2.5 million for both Lumiere festivals last year. Artichoke are a creative company who help produce large scale public theatre and art - including the sultan's elephant.