Ashleigh’s IB Theatre Journal

Today, we decided to move on from Bunraku for a bit! Only temporarily though. Instead, we looked at suggested audition pieces for NIDA, to decide what our next unit would be on. We all got given a monologue from a Shakespeare play, which will direct ourselves, and perform to a select few of people next [...]

Differences in our performance of The Love Suicides at Sonezaki and A traditional Bunraku performance:

There are less performers
There is no shamisen.
Ours doesn’t have a traditional set design.
Puppets are made from different materials and aren’t exact size.
Our script is an abridged version.
We do not have a traditional narrator who can do the voice gestures.
Our play is [...]

After giving myself time to think about what I saw at the performance of Philippe Genty’s Lands End, and after having a very useful group discussion about it, I now have a better understanding of the performance, and visual theatre as a whole.
Never before had I watched visual theatre, but i assumed it would have [...]