Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Pitch Notes

Director's Pitch:

  • Relevant to the audience
  • Give community a more serious understanding of the themes within the play
    • modern issues that are addressed
  • Relationship between America and China
  • Governmental themes
  • Are china and America really that different?
  • Performance concepts:
    • crammed
    • urban
    • isolation in the masses
    • transparency and corruption
    • obscurity in plain view
    • Isolation in Joe and Zhang Lin
    • obsession
    • Immersed
    • Fast-paced
  • Convey urban and modern feel on the Set
    • media
    • confronted with the issues by putting the audience in the middle of the world
    • newspapers on the ground
  • No funds towards costumes/set pieces
    • goes towards the set
  • Time - strained. <- we will shorten the script.
Set Pitch:
  • Merging visual arts and theatre
  • Immerse the audience into the world
  • Questioning the 'given'
  • In-your-face play
  • action-driven
  • relationship between tok and bias in the news
  • Griminess
Light Pitch:
  • Lighting can help audience distinguish between the two different cultures
  • Colour might smear or blend - experiment needed
  • Lights separated

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