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Here you'll find a number of images to give you a better idea of who we are and what we do. These images have been taken from past performances and are updated regularly. |
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.jpg) The What Factory consists of Wil Jones, Bryony Hooper, and Suzi Impett. |
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.jpg) Mummy's Here! was inspired by the theatre practitioner Atonin Artaud.
Through the creation of the Theatre Of Cruelty, Artaud sought to challenge the audience’s expectations of the theatre. He wanted to shock and disturb with the aim of forcing audience members to confront their own emotions. The idea was to gain freedom from our inner most fears by confronting the demons within us. Devices such as music, dance, sound, and lighting were used to create an atmosphere in which this kind of self-release could occur. |
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.jpg) Artaud aimed for a total theatrical experience. He wanted to ‘impel us to see ourselves as we are, making the masks fall…’ He praised the Oriental Theatre’s use of symbolic gesture, movement, light, sound, colour, texture and mask, while rejecting the psychology found in Shakespearian Theatre. He intended he is audience to have little chance for intellectual response and aimed for their reactions to be more sensual and involuntary. The theatre would therefore create it’s own new language threw the use of sound, imagery and non-verbal work. |
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.jpg) We set out to create a piece for performance that demonstrated our knowledge and understanding of Artaud’s theories and practices. Making use of physical theatre practices inspired by Gecko and the David Glass Ensemble in a combination with exercises and work we had previously done, we created a performance with the aim of a total theatre experience. Exaggerated movement and physicality were used to create characters who communicated with each other through their own language, using a combination of gesture and repetition. This reflected Artaud’s aim of creating a new language, unique to each performance. He held close the belief that normal words had become to familiar to the mind and had become meaningless, so we reflected this with the creation of the new way in which the characters communicated with one another and the audience.
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.jpg) Find Me is a play written by Olwen Wymark it is based on the true story of the life of Miss Verity Taylor. Her story begins with her at a young age. She finds it hard to fit in socially with her peers and this starts to worry her parents. As the plot line progresses the situation becomes more exacerbated and finally she has to be placed in care.
Originally the play was written with 42 different parts to play. Five of which played Verity her self three played Edward her father and there was a narrator. As there were only five of us we had to cut the play and each of use had to be able to perform a variety of characters. Verity was played by Bryony Hooper in the first half as young Verity, in the second half Suzi Impett as older Verity.
After parts had been given the style of the piece had to be worked on. In the end in was a blend of styles that satisfied both cast and director. Inspiration was drawn from naturalism for the script and speech and theatre of Complicite for set and style Ideas also came from the theatre of cruelty.
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.jpg) Hansel and Gretel was written around 1818, by The Grimm’s’ Brothers. It is a classic fairytale with many traditional elements such as the evil Witch and her magical house. The most intriuging thing about the story is it's much darker side. It gives the performer a fantastic oppurtunity to use the familiarity that the audience has with story as a tool to effect and move, and ultimately to create some quite challenging theatre. |
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