Earlier this week, Harriet and I met with the organisers from Patchwork Theatre Company who we are working with on this project. At the moment, there is no definite concept that we are working with. We discussed past ideas of the Bogeyman to try and develop an idea of the performance and what everyone wants from it. It was decided that the performance should go down more of a comical route opposed to the usual scary one, and elements of fantasy or dream can be incorporated in. The show opens on June 16th and should be featuring at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to which we have been invited to as well. This would be a massive opportunity to get our names out into the professional environment as well as see what others are doing at this time.
The performance is a devised piece that will be based on people's irrational fears. To back this up, a survey has been taken to find out what people's fears are, and the idea that the Bogeyman could be made up from elements of all the fears that arose. In this case the Bogeyman character could be a very fictional and alien-like form with lots of googly eyes, representing the fear of spiders which many people have, and these sort of ideas.
From the meeting with Jenny, Stuart and Rebecca, we learned a bit more about the past performances and the theatre company itself. For this performance, there will be 5 actors (the 3 named above, plus an additional 2) who will each have normal clothes, and at least one costume relating to the concept. As Patchwork Theatre company will be touring with this performance, the costumes must be easy to maintain, as well as transportable. As Rebecca is a trained dancer, the performance may have dance aspects to it, but all costumes need to have freedom of movement as it is a devised piece.
The Theatre company is based at Weymouth College, so having access to their costume store as well as our own I feel will prove very handy and give us a wider selection to choose from. As this production won't have a massive budget, I will have to source and scrounge as much as possible, being very cost effective.
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