THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW!

I've decided to blog this week as an exception; me and Georgia (WHO LOOKED INCREDIBLE!!) went to see the Rocky Horror Show Friday and I wanted to share this fabulous experience with you all and especially for Richard, so he could get an idea of what it would look like. I am thinking of borrowing lots of interesting ideas for our Theatre of Cruelty performance, another reason why I want Richard to read this, so he could understand a bit better the ideas we'd be borrowing for our performance ;)



Rocky and Dr. Frank-N-Furter

I went to see the performance last year ( which I have been blogging about as well) and I knew exactly what to expect from it. It had been such a good and inspirational performance that I wanted to go and see it again, with Georgia and her little sister.I have found lots of ideas that we could borrow for our Artaudesque performance about Theatre of Cruelty. The performance started right from where we entered the TMP. While we waiting at in the queue, an actor was standing up on a chair and was telling the audience member to take their clothes off since it was very hot in the room. Everyone around us started to stare at each other and started to worry, but I knew exactly what he meant; he literally didn't mean to take our clothes off, only jackets and coats, but the way he said it was a good way to intimidate the audience before entering the room. Artaud wanted to intimidate and make the audience feel as uncomfortable as possible, I think that this would be a marvelous idea for our production, having a performance before the actual performance. We had to enter in groups of 5, and when the door opened an actor took my hand and started to pull me into the room very slowly; I played along with if of course but Georgia and her sister looked terrified for a couple of seconds! The tour guide took us along in individual performances that were going on. At one point she took us in a very little room, with strong lighting, and that had a strong smell (a good one though). Three actors were reading to us as we sat down, all squashed together. (Link, 'The Pillowman performance', we did the exactly same with our audience members, very few and uncomfortable sitting'). I couldn't understand what it was about since the actors wouldn't stop reading for each group entering and exiting the room; but it was about sex, taboo subject, and uncomfortable for the audience. They had small torches so they could see what they were reading. 

Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to get up on stage this time but it didn't matter since we got a lot of fabulous photos with the actors! Singing and dancing was going on; again, link to Artaud, total theatre if I'm not mistaking? Where all of the theatre aspects are being used in a performance? 

 The audience had to stand up the through the whole performance which was about 2 hours; me and Georgia had had the fabulous idea of wearing heels that night, NOT A GOOD IDEA!  :p

Awesome Georgia and Grace for dressing up!

But it didn't matter because the performance was fabulous! When I went last year, all of the actors had an amazing amount of energy that night, and they had the exactly amount this year again that they used. I was very impressed with that and thought about our performances and much energy we had used during them, brought back some awesome memories there!

A massive screen with projected images and video were shown to the audience; it started off with Brad and Janet in the car on a very stormy and rainy day. After a short moment of watching the video, the actors who were standing with the audience started singing, and suddenly Brad and Janet would appear on stage! The actors who were  surrounding the audience would then light Brad and Janet up with their small torches. (Link to 'the Pillowman', when Grace and I would stand behind our audience and whisper into their ears).

I found so many links to our 'Pillowman performance' such as the actors surrounding the audience, the actors grabbing the audience, trapping the audience in a small room/closet and sing to them...

Lots of useful things we could defo use in our amazing performance! 

If any of you actors from the performance are reading this and you understand English , you were all amazing, well done to all of you! BRAVO A TOUS TOUS! :D