PRACTITIONERS
Today we went through the different practitioners that each individual had done a fact file on. The practitioners we discussed were Peter Brook, Antoine Artaud, Dario Fo, Harold Pinter, Konstanin Stanislavski, Edward Craig, Jerzy Grotoski and Brecht. After that we got into two groups of four and spoke about the three previous scripts we had looked at and chose one to apply a specific practitioner to. The three scripts we looked at were It's not you, it's me by Don Zollidos, DNA by Dennis Kelly and East by Steven Berkoff. Our group chose to do DNA by Dennis Kelly as it was quite dark and we wanted to switch it up a bit. We looked mostly at the practitioner Dario Fo who used comedy as one of his key features of performance. We wanted to keep the underlying message of DNA to stay depressing but we would take influence from Dario Fo to give it a comedic twist. I like looking at different ways to interpret texts as they can make the moral or story become so different. I am very interested in looking into Antoine Artaud as I find the theatre of cruelty so interesting as it's uncomfortable yet it's hard to look away.
Dario Fo
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