Pre I Am My Own Wife

I am throughly excited for the performance of I Am My Own Wife at The Long Wharf Theater. After reading the review and watching the video I have a much better understanding of what the show is about. I think that the subject of this show is incredibly interesting especially between tying the difficult subjects of transgenderism and Nazi Germany. The time period it takes place in is a very difficult time for people part of the lgbtq community so it will be interesting to see how she is portrayed. I am also very curious about the way the show is being done by only one person. The concept of doing a show that has over 30 roles as a solo act seems very stressful and rushed. I hope that the show does not become a stressful experience because of all the rushing to change from one character to another. I wonder if tech and set will play a big role in this show because not as much of the setting can come from the characters. I am over all very excited to see what Long Wharf has done with this production especially because in the past productions of this play have not been very highly rated or as successful. This is something I am looking forward to a lot and I hope that it is a successful production just because it's such a difficult show to do.

Collaborative Reflection 2/10/20

I think that our group has to work on a couple things to complete our project. One aspect is our ending. At the moment, we do not have a completed ending for our piece of theatre. I have had a couple of ideas for the end of the show but its not entirely clear with my group how we want to end it. We haven't decided yet what mind state we want to leave the audience in after they watch our show. There are a couple of options. We could go in the direction of resolution which would give the audience an ultimate feeling of relief or satisfaction, or we could leave the individual plots unresolved. This would leave the audience with more feelings like uneasiness and discomfort. I think that ultimately, leaving the audience without answers is a better way to end the piece of theater. We also have to decide if we want to include music in our scenes when we are walking in the space. Sometimes music is useful and makes the scenes more interesting and intriguing. However, music could also distract from what is going on on the stage and take away from the intimate experience that our theater piece is. It is something we will have to experiment with and see if it makes the piece better or worse. We also have to make a lot of decision based off of lighting and how we want to use it to focus the attention of the audience on to the stage. Along with all of this, we really have to work on our in between moments in our scenes. Making them more interesting and also get the point of transition across. A lot could be said using these negative moments just like in photography how the negative aspects of the image can be more impactful than the positives. Our piece of theater could have the same impacts. Over all, I think we have a long way to go, but once we get our audios recorded and lights figured out, I think we will be in great shape.

Collaborative Reflection 2/21/20

Our group has come a long way with our second draft. I lot of aspects of our original idea are shown in the piece of theater we have created. In Rhythm 0 there were a lot of individual moments with the performance artist and the people viewing the exhibit. We have a very similar idea with our individual scenes. I really like the way we have separated each scene but in the end connected them all together. I think that there is still a lot of work to be done in terms of connecting the scenes and creating a better flow because as of right now it is still feeling very block like. In terms of sound lighting and tech, I think that there is a lot of work to do. Our voiceovers are not complete and we haven't timed out the piece with them. Our lights are solid but I think that there are still ways we can further use them to our benefit. Our background sound also needs to be looked at. I am not sure if we are planning to use music or anything especially in the last scene. It could really bring out a good side in our piece of theater or it could disrupt the energy and flow. We will have to try that out and see how it works. I think that overall, I am super happy with how much progress we have made but I am still concerned that we may not have enough time to finish. I also am occasionally worried that we don't have enough material or plot to draw in the audience. Hopefully, with sound and lights we can draw the audience in better and give them a little more context to the plot of the show. I also want to spend some more time exploring the moments in between each of our scenes. I think that there is a lot that we can do in the transition periods to make it more interesting and we haven't been taking full advantage of that opportunity. I hope that we can incorporate other aspects of viewpoints like levels, speed, flocking, etc to make it more visually interesting. I also think this will help to separate the individual scenes more so it is more clear. I can't wait to finish this project and get the last couple of pieces of it together.