The short Holiday entry

Once you take Theatre IB, your perception of life will never be the same.


Although you may not believe it, I spent a great part of my holidays thinking about Theatre:


Thinking about the organization and rehearsals of our Paucartambo performance, about the Shadow Queendom scene for the Arts Evening , and researching about German expressionism and Meyerhold's biomechanics.


After researching about German Expressionism.. I keep asking which could be my research question about it. For my first research task, I found videos of most of the play, and the research topic was "easy to organize" and develop for me.
However, in this case, a play has been harder to find, and specially, an specific area to explore.

This areas may include: (amongst others)


Characterisation - where the characters make abrupt and hard movements, which break halfway. There is a strain of gestures, through intense movement.


Costumes- which are a dramatic factor in expressionism. For example, in German Expressionism, characters appear often with capes and hats. Regarding makeup, it is characterized by being very pale.


Scenery - landscapes are artificially created to make use of the lighting in order to build characters and objects. For example, "Lang" realized that you cannot 'remove' nature, but you can create abstractions.


However, how can I research a topic in a play I cannot watch? Is it possible to research costumes, or scenery from a script?

Maybe the stage directions can tell us information about how characterisation and scenery should be.


On the other hand, biomechanics reminded me to an extent of the chaotic scene in "La Cocina".
Although I haven't understand COMPLETELY Meyerhold's technique, it involves communication within a group and controlling disposition in space, and he argued that one could call up emotions in performance through the use of movement and gesture.

so.. is biomechanics a technique? and was it used in Miyuki y los tres demonios in the spies scene? (as it included acrobacies)


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How do you know which research area and play are "the best" for your topic and sources available?

Expressionist characters often dramatize and struggle against their societies.. but Do all types of theatre criticize something in their societies to an extent?