25th November '10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEUUS_kjI4k

http://www.apath.org/creating_religion.html - used in the Nigelroi pub scene (creating a religion)

23rd November '10

Lucifer Checks In Late (Mainly Mark's Idea)

Lucifer wants to run the Library (Heaven) but Gabriel is in charge. Lucifer takes out the book of Nigelroi from the religion section, takes it home and begins to read as normal. At a staff meeting they are discussing promotions but Gabriel gets the job. Lucifer is raging and in great anger he storms down the stairs, Gabriel, bragging his new position, tells Lucifer his book is late and he shall be fined. Lucifer goes home and destroys the book, handing it back to Gabriel smugly/sarcastically.

In a separate scene, 'God' is outraged by his behaviour and bans Lucifer from the Library. Lucifer reacts by telling him to fuck off and tells him he's going to create a library in the basement (representing hell). Lucifer goes to punch God and God rips off Lucifer's wings.

This scene could potentially come at the beginning of the play to get the audience to be objective about Lucifer's situation. It would also then be repeated in the convienient place.

Glossary

Diadactic - to teach
Dialectics - opposites
Hypothesis - idea
Antithesis - opposing idea
Synthesis - compromise between ideas (done by the audience)

Archetype - character (representation of a social group)
Gestus - attitude (held by the archetype)
Spass - humour
Verfremdungseffekt - alienation effect
Episodic - Non Linear
Objective - ''Drama for the brain''

I'll add more to the same post as we go along :)

22nd November '10

Assuming we're not going with the terorism take on our theme, I feel what we did in class today was really useful and much more relevant to our topic. As a reminder, I'm going to start logging what we've been doing in lessons so we can filter through when it comes to finalising our devised work.

Today we worked on an improvised scene about sex before marriage, exploring comedy and tragedy. Our comedic scenes included unmaritial sex (behind the screen) and the priests beating the accused. The tragedy scene (praying) I feel could have been a little bit longer so we don't lose the moment, I also think it would have been nice to include some singing, for instance Forgiven by Alanis Morisette: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xsHuwhm8Qs&feature=related Please have a listen, there's a really nice bit towards the end, the content's also pretty relevant seeing as it's about how women are viewed in Catholicism.

I've also made a playlist on Spotify which I mentioned on the FaceBook group and if anyone has any suggestions song-wise, let me know and I'll put it on there. So far the songs included are:

Every Sperm Is Sacred - Monty Python

Forgiven - Alanis Morissette

Vicar In A Tutu - The Smiths (potentially comical image..)

Angel - Robbie Williams

There Must Be An Angel - Annie Lennox

Also, we didn't have much in the way of notes today but the next post I do will be a glossary (seeing as Ms Bones gave us loads of long and annoyingly similar words to remember today)