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Line-up
Aim: to sustain a listening/responding conversation, exploring focus &
silence.
All the avatars stand in a line at the back/top of the screen, then each
in turn steps forward into the centre and delivers a line. No-one else
interrupts or does anything while someone is in the centre. Once the avatar
has stepped back into the line, the next person steps out and responds
to the previous comment/question/statement. You don't have to say anything
when it's your turn, you can be silent or make a sound effect or whatever,
but you must at least step forward and then back, so that the next person
then knows it's their turn.
Cameos
Aims: to find ways to draw the theatre audience's focus to a particular
avatar; to develop characterisations.
Think up a very short cameo for your avatar that introduces their character.
It could be a movement or gesture, an excerpt from an interview, a profound
statement, a burp, whatever. First, the avatars take turns to step into
the centre and present their cameos. Then, each is presented again one
by one, and as each avatar delivers their cameo, the others work to create
focus on that avatar and illustrate their cameo. This could be achieved
by giving them space, or through the use of props, painting, etc.
Reverse Cameos
Aims: to find ways to draw the theatre audience's focus to a particular
avatar; to develop characterisations.
Someone shouts an avatar's name, and everyone except that
avatar takes up the shout. That avatar moves into the centre and remains
silent and still, while the other avatars make comments about their character
and use props and paints to describe their character.
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