So You Want to be a Physical Theatre Performer is also included in the e-books and paperbacks Five Plays to Play With and Your Handy Companion to Devising and Physical Theatre, both available through most online bookshops.
The second edition will be released in April 2014.
Your Handy Companion to Devising and Physical Theatre
This book has been written with the aim of supporting those drama teachers who, with little experience of physical theatre themselves, have a genuine interest in the style and are keen to enthuse their students to use it in their work.
At the same time, we hope the handbook will prove valuable to those students who are already passionate about the subject and are keen to bring the style into their own work. If you are that student who always goes beyond the call of duty, driven by a genuine interest in all kinds of theatre and a passion to contribute to the art form, this book is for you.
This is a brief book, with a handful of exercises to kick-off the devising process. It consists of four parts.
Part 1: DEVISING AND PHYSICAL THEATRE, an advocacy chapter, highlighting the joys of physical theatre and ensemble work.
Part 2: CREATING PHYSICAL THEATRE, suggests a structure for the devising process and is followed by exercises to help with building the ensemble, creating a character and story and using theatrical devices.
Part 3: WORKING WITH MASKS introduces mask work. While this is not something that will be tackled by everyone, it is worth considering as an option. For students, it might allow them to create a large number of characters if their piece requires it. For teachers, using masks during exploration can help to illustrate focus, simplicity of movement and honesty in performance.
The final part of this book is made up of five scripts that have been used to explore physical theatre. The pieces were created by members of Forbidden Theatre Company’s ensemble and presented during their Freestyle Performances. Some of the pieces will seem more polished than others but all of them illustrate how working in a stylised way can take the audience to a different world. These can also be purchased separately in paperback as the compilation "Five Plays to Play With".
‘Five Plays to Play With’ is made up of five short pieces, each with performance times of under ten minutes long, written by Phillip Johnson, Richard Mann, Mark Reid and Pilar Orti. They have been put together as a resource for those who wish to explore different theatre styles either in the classroom or for pure joy!
Softly Softly is an allegorical piece is set in a small village, where there is a strong community feeling, until one day the villagers loose the ability to speak. The disappearance of the voice, brings the breakdown of all communication between the villagers and the joy disappears from every day life.
Up the Hill Backwards is a purely visual play. There are only two sentences in the whole piece – everything else is told through action. An underscore can be used to give it the feel of a classic European film.
Charlie is a regular guy who falls in love with a regular girl. But getting the girl of your dreams is not always that easy, especially when your imagination leads you to imagine a murder attempt.
So You Want to Be a Physical Theatre Performer
Professor Phillipe Hoffmanonsky, from the LeyCoke Institute of Bodily Mimed Expressive Arts takes us through the characteristics of physical theatre and the qualities of the physical theatre performer. This brief "lecture" takes a comic look at Physical Theatre - the need for slow motion, non-linear structure and much, much repetition...
Brief notes are included to explain some of the concepts in this “lecture”.
Cairo 1948 is a two-hander. Part film noir, part melodrama, Cairo 1948 is the story of a man and a woman who fall in love only to discover they are both on different sides of the law. Cairo 1948 is set in a bar in Cairo, another bar in Nairobi and the jungle in Thailand and spans two decades. Quite a challenge for two performers.
Legacy in Blood
Written mainly as a monologue, Legacy in Blood begins with a dark ritual, where a woman is offered as a sacrifice to the revered… Mark. An unlikely person to be worshipped, Mark tells us the story of how he discovered he was… how shall we put it, not quite human.
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