Live Theatre Review

Question 1

Where

Answer 1

Home theatre Manchester

Question 2

What

Answer 2

Forced entertainments real magic

Question 3

When

Answer 3

30th November 2017

Question 4

Who?

Answer 4

Tim Etchells

Question 5

What is the performance for?

Capp pads

Answer 5

Cyclical absurd post modern post structural provocative alienating disengaging

Question 6

What is the performance against?

Aps

Answer 6

Artistotelian performance conventions eg carthasis

Paradigm of theatre eg naturalism

Suspension of disbelief

Question 7

How do you remember things the performance is

Answer 7

I’m for Capp pads but not for aps

Question 8

Director?

Answer 8

Tim etchells

Question 9

Actors

Answer 9

Jerry killick
Richard lowdon
Claire Marshall

Question 10

Lighting

Answer 10

Jim Harrison

Question 11

Sound

Answer 11

Greg Akenhurst

Question 12

Performance aim

Answer 12

To provoke the audience though conventions of absurdism and alienation to question with a focus on optimism, individual agency and desire to change

Question 13

The production in essence

Answer 13

A cycle of the same episode performed 36 times in the style of a game show where contestant ineffectively guess an unknown word that’s right in front of them.

Question 14

Words describe alienation

Capppp dadd

Answer 14

Confusing
Alienating 
Post structural
Post modern 
Provocative
Paradoxical

Deconstructed
Anti-illusion
Disengaging
Disfunctional

Question 15

Key motifs?
The choice by an optimistc individual to wear a chicken costume meant he was clearly blind however he repeated his actions in frustration with no desire for change

Answer 15

Repetition cyclicalism of life

Blind hope doing it regardless optimism

Frustration and defeat

Individual agency

The desire for change

The chicken costume fool/flightless/production

Question 16

Conventions of absurdism

Answer 16

Placards- algebra sausage caravan

Visible lighting/bright/style/ the lights themself

Stage directions read aloud

Cyclical structure

Changed on stage

Purposefully getting things wrong

Sfx juxtaposed non-diegetic and diegetic

Aim itself

The historification

The actors names (lack of)

Changing characters

Question 17

Quotes from the forced entertainment website 2018

Answer 17

Reinventing theatre to speak about the time we are in

We’re interested in making performance that will excite challenge question and entertain other people. Interested in confusion as well as laughter

Question 18

Production programme 2017 quotes

Answer 18

Explodes the conventions of genre narrative and theatre itself

Endlessly revisit moments of hope and defeat

Performance about optimism individual agency and desire for change

World of absurd disconnection struggle and comical repetition

An impossible illusion

Question 19

Directors quotes 2016

Answer 19

The triple bind of destructive capitalism escalating globalisation and economic austerity the kind of freedom that is not really freedom at all the rigged game

Question 20

Post show discussion production team quotes

Answer 20

‘It is what it is’

They said as it’s meant to make you think about whatever you were thinking about

Question 21

Nachtrktitik

Answer 21

Beckett meets trash tv

Question 22

Reader response theory

Answer 22

Stanley fish /Wolfgang iser
Read it one way based on beliefs and experience

Here is the opportunity to comment on what others were thinking (mention post show talk)
Here is the opportunity to address that human condition is to make sense everyone was rationalising. What was I thinking?
Why does the alienation make us feel this way?