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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCyEVQz6JBw gielgud trevor howard edmund kean thinking about acting stuff,, intereted in it in a performance art, pushing boundaries? kinda way like art pushing physical and mentally, rimbaud thing of overwhelming the senses to give oneself a large almost spiritual experience. one that can change u profoundly and tear up and realign how you think and see urself would like to combine physical theatre n performance n music one day..? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx0Z6y2HmlM&t=646s dada emerged in switzerland at the tail end of WW1 if logic can lead to war, then art should abandon logic and focus on non-sense, intuition, and anarchy rlly need to read artaud's book again https://thedramateacher.com/surrealism-theatre-conventions/?utm_content=cmp-true Acting and Characterisation – fragmentary characters (not fully rounded, incomplete) – unmotivated characters – sometimes a dissociation between actor and character** – use of clichéd dialogue* – car...

I've fallen into a very very big research pit, So ive decided to dump it here n separate it into different blog posts for my own convenience.; this intro one, different ones for artists, then a final one of some ideas ive had along the way/recently. I want to use this as research for my deld film & other video ideas Ive had in the past. Also I got loads of ideas from this research, just little ones. I cant remember how I came across this, but i think i was just looking at theatre & performance art in general. Photography in the Expanded Field: Painting, Performance, and the Neo-Avant-Garde ( https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phef/hd_phef.htm ) Summary : In the 60s photog became more seen as a real art form, ut not fully like abstract painting. Abstract expressionism began to wane, happening movement was born, exploring urban and chance effect themes of action painting. Rauschenberg had been making 'Combines' since mid 50s - insp by dada collagists like Kurt Schwitte...

 monologues !! been thinking of them for a while and was so interesting to see how a play functioned with one actor!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! characters that weren't really there but she would speak to, worked extremely well. The way the audience is also involved as its kinda directed towards them but also not at all - without the expectation of a response/not a panto. the class system ! so relatable personally. even tho im not in law work stuff, in the arts/media/big boy industries.  The class system in the UK is really smthn thats really affected me, so i really liked to see this topic explored on stage Got out the cinema n tweeted how i wanted to beat men up ! OBVIOUSLy not all men just Those Ones, since the play was about sexual assault it made me think of all the shitty men ive met ok, and I GOT Suspended for 12 hours !so i cant tweet about the play or anything now.  I wrote a whole essay while on the bus in my notes app !  I think also i will go see it again bc t...

 Read Present Laughter by Noel Coward. Want 2 read more plays n stuff and saw the performance of this last year so good place 2 start.  Got the copy from the library so scanned the pages i tabbed of lines/bits I liked or whatever.

listened to podcast interviewing fiona Shaw n she spoke of this play n I've been wanting to learn about playwrights and theatre more again anyway. then straight after work went to library took me a while to find a copy but I found it. originally looked in the plays section but was im the russian lit section . a lot of talk aboit translations and translators.. never really heard/ seen it with others. maybe bc its a play? has a lot more to do with actions n idioms in the gesture sense . if that makes sense.  noticed this in the beginning of the preface and this guardian article on fiona Shaw thimg https://amp.theguardian.com/stage/2003/aug/13/theatre.edinburghfestival2003 Reading the Sea Gull & realised / thought about how you can relate to not many people around you /feel so far away, but then read something either just one line/sentence or a piece of work of something from hundreds of years ago and know exactly what they're on about. Strangely comforting?? relating to dead ...

How to Academy Podcast - Fiona Shaw - A life on Stage and Screen 26:11 'you said earlier in a way all theater is stand up comedy' ' comedy's quite hard to do becasue if you find it funny it really isnt funny. But of course, you have to find it funny. You have to know its funny, but you mustn't play that its funny, because the situation isnt funny, so i mean i think my pleasure has been finding comic moments in things like bedeyer?? or hedigabre? (cant work out what shes saying) which was very funny. and then of course, the evening is {.??} for the audience because they think its funny but then it really isnt funy. And i think a lot of really good drama does that. There should be nothing that doesnt have funny moments in it.' 'Comedy is often built on the gap between someones expectation and  their failing to get it, but how they asssume they've got it.' 'Interviewer: THinking of Johnanthan Miller, so he used to say that he wouild go on the tube ...