Jeu Jeu la Foille
Say hello to me
  • Home
    • Nowhere to go but everywhere
  • Frontal Lobotomy
  • Testy Manifesto
  • Theatre
    • LCF Costume in Performance Workshop Gallery
    • The Mist Theatre Company
    • The Magic Bones
    • Acting Tuition and Workshops
  • Burlesque Archive 2010 - 2016
    • Lolly Poppins
    • The A-Team - I love it when a plan comes together
    • Crossroads - A burlesque tribute to Robert Johnson
    • The WAG
    • La Resistance - 'Allo 'Allo
    • Black Market Baby
    • Amelia Earhart - I Fly Better than I Wash Dishes
    • Snake Woman
    • Bone Appetits, Bitch
    • Previous Appearances
    • Press and Testmonials
    • Galleries
    • Acts
    • Tigz Rice Studios

Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter

29/12/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
Most of my day job involves watching people acting, making notes, and advising them on where they could improve. This week I gave myself the same treatment, by watching the video back from the 4th of December. Here are my notes...

49 mins long
Saxophone skipped at beginning
Chin - posture
Watch out for covering Bobby Cool's legs
Make sure braces are on properly
Find a better response to the mention of Keith Richards
Look at brain on the word bottle - It's kind of weird having a guy here with a BOTTLE in front of him.'
Adjust hat - piano still going and acted surprised - this worked, keep it.
Asking why - too much emphasis
Don't throw away weather report - keep momentum
Take the light out of the brain slower
Slow down the light drawings
Sort hair out
Have pen in the pocket already - set up for beginning, put it back in right place after opener
Nightmares go away, leave more pause after
Suprise lobotomy worked - person next to whomever is holding the brain - almost pounce on them
Check on the healing process later
Need better underwear - find some new quotations for the undressing part
Shipwreck
Trauma Drinking to Lost in Harbour - look at the transition.
Make new clasp for dress - quicker fastening
Shoulders back more for the ice-pick reveal
Have a sexier look, then smile
Watch out for chin on the shoulder stroke
Bottle
Shoulders back on Tit Tape and a Tiara
Find it in the dark, actually go searching for the lost pastie, until I find in the dark and switch the lights off. Look in Tom's hat.
Can we see the shadow during the lamppost story. Bring a brain light to the desk, and walk back with it to light the lamppost.
Good pacing
Look back at the lamppost during bringing up the lights at the desk
Too much stomping in the heels - practise walking
Too much fiddling with coat
Keep the flourish of the ice-pick, mirroring the lobotomy image from before.
Murder good - DBS
Check on the patient to deflect from the tension build from asking for volunteers
Too long a pause before other side - work on this transition
Disintegration
Stumbling with the skirt works
Start showbiz and apocalypse straight away
Slow hat on ascent
More sharp movement in beginning of late night conversation
Look at pacing
Lower hat on hurt
More prep for 2nd part of lip-synch
Too much swaying during improv
Works putting doctor
Gone tone for 3rd doctor
Consequences, learn lines better
Last bit of speech after CIA learn better
Need a better transition after 3rd doctor
Swig after 1st line of soar dirge
Physical prep before story/myth - draw shapes?
Extraordinary
Turn Pete's bow tie off, during story, some point after twinkling lights
Work on singing
Bobby Cool smokes 1st, can he throw the fag away? Looking up to the sky...
 
Lots to work on here...

I've also been moved to write new material, possibly not for the show, but something in definitely cooking! Here is one:

I'll blame the moon
Right out of the sky for you baby
It's the thorn in our sides
Please call me baby
I'll blame the moon
Stuck up there in the sky
Teetering there on the edge
Of a coloured wind sky
I'll blame the moon
For the severance in my heart
For I can barely walk
Since you have stolen mine heart
 
Xxx



 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Jeu Jeu la Foille

    Tom Waits and puppet obsessive. Loves clowns, performs burlesque striptease on occasion, enjoys crafternoons.

    ​

    Archives

    August 2022
    May 2022
    February 2022
    December 2021
    July 2021
    May 2021
    March 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    May 2020
    March 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    October 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    August 2018
    March 2018
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2013
    October 2013
    August 2013
    April 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012

    ​

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.