Notes for the book

Caroline:
Everyone can take a moment,

Write performance instead of writing text.

What can you do, stage, the setting's write plot? Around that capture potential of space

Favorite moment: Gesture, not text

React in a natural way to senses

Experimentation key to moment work, see what works.


Helena:
Props moment, suitcase, pillow, flour sifter - manipulating props in different ways can achieve different meanings, emotions, scenes/plots.

Moments can lead to 'writing performance' in the scene

"Get our hands dirty" = experiment

"A-ha moment" = moment of recognition

"Discursive power" = act of speaking on stage

"Giving titles" = name them to remember

Costume moment: wedding dress, boa, red dress.

Create emotion, an element of surprise, direct attention to do something specific on stage.


Maddie

Lighting; create mood, shaped space, direct eye, time of day - Compliment the narrative, (equal to performance or acting)

Exercise: each member brings a lighting source -> create moment/experiment -> how does light speak, what makes you think about.

Add more people, add color, add props, costumes -> can be a beginning, end, dialog.

Theatrical Tension - other elements

Dramatic Tension - narrative



Pacifica

After creative moments, how do we craft into a narrative,

Consecutive -> put them in order, A, B, C.

Moment Layering -> moments can happen simultaneously

Content -> creating "back story" or knowledge/background that helps w/ clarity or beg, mid, end.

Techniques:
1. Sketching - practice 1st, then improve/revise
2. The ticking bomb - create tension/suspension for the audience
3. Keep info from the audience - Don't over-explain, let them imagine
4. Create confusion - conflict/problem



Ruth

The Laramie Project

Hesitant -> many were gay, didn't want to be targeted/safety important

Interviewed lots of different categories/locations

NY -> making moments

How to portray the fence? Line & chairs, people
                                                                    > want to draw in the audience
Trial and error -> Ex. 5 diff opening statement

Want it to be about people/community, not incident -> goal for the audience to understand people.

To company through line/Mathew's through-line/Laramie community through-line.

Third act? Dad's speech/Funeral

Theatre work = connections w/people of Laramie

Final edits: narrative/performance the priority.

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