Research Investigation

It's time to start thinking about what to do for the Research Investigation.

After focusing on puppetry, we are now slowly moving to the different form of theatre around the world, in particularly those that are not familiar to us.

In the RI, which counts for our IB final grade, we are required to undertake a personal dramaturgical research into an unfamiliar theatrical practice which would (theoretically) contribute to the production of a play or theatre piece from this practice.

Since we actually have to write our RI in our second year, in order to be prepared for the real RI, and get to know what is required from us, Libby asked us to do a presentation, alone or in pair, and chose a topic that we might like to get to know better. Of course we can’t choose the topic we might to for the actual RI, but we can always chose a topic presented by somebody else. This exercise give us the opportunity to be more inform about specific theatrical practice that we find interesting and/or we might want to do in our RI.

There are two specific theatrical practices that I would be really interested to research on.

 

 v  I really find interesting traditional theatrical practices, particularly from the Asian region. I’m really willing to find somebody interested as well on this topic, particularly on Kabuki Theatre - Japanese traditional form of theatre (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67-bgSFJiKc) and Korean storytelling (Simcheongga), in order to be a couple presenting one of these topics.

  v  Another theatre practice that I think I’m really interested on, is German Expressionism. (Perhaps also Pantomime). I realize that I don’t know any thing about this movement and I would really like to know information about it.

From basic information, I can say that according to the German Expressionism, the play writer creates his/her own style, by using symbolism and mise en scène to add mood and deeper meaning to a play, concentrating on the dark fringes of human experience.

This aspect could be interesting to develop and use in my ideal IP “Just Life”, or in another idea of Independent Project I would like to focus on by taking into consideration Antigone, Bertolt Brecht version, and adapting it with the ideas I will come out with.