Session 10

We began the session looking at the reading on "Theatre and Globalization". In groups we bullet pointed key points from the reading.

-"McTheatre" major musicals such as "Phantom of the Opera" "Cats" and "Les Miserables" are not individual and unique, they are a franchise. Yet they are so successful. Similar to the success of food chain McDonalds.

-Focus on money

-Homogenization is where all constituents are of the same nature.

-Globalization has spread so quickly because of technology (phone, computers etc)

-Focus on the role of language and religion. These are exchanged across the entire globe.

-Logos and brands that are instantly recongized globally.

Performance ideas

We have now formed our groups for the final performance, and I will be working with Pauline, Shanice, Yughiny, Jennifer and Bennie. Focusing on the work we have been doing on performance and the city and performance and the street, we have decided to use Stratford city as inspiration for our piece. We started thinking about what we think of when we think about Stratford, and we agreed that on a daily basis we often see people from all different walks of life walking to and from work or university. They are all dressed differently and we might speculate what type of job they are in from this. For example men in suits may be businessmen, teenagers and young adults dressed casually might be going to university. Age, appearance, language and physicalities are all factors in this. We have decided to explore the idea of success .

In order to work with the theme of success we will each be playing a different character, from all walks of life. Our performance will be based on the journey to success of each of our characters. We have decided to structure it as a job or university interview. Each of us will be answering a series of interview questions in our characters to show what success means to different people. We will be starting the performance downstairs in the university outside Stratford cirus and we will be leading the audience up to our classroom where we will perform the main body of our piece. This is because we want the audience to feel as if they are being taken on a "journey". This reflects every day life, as we are all on our own individual journeys to success. We want to incorporate the idea of socking to show how we all must defeat obstacles on our way to success and we all sometimes want to be seen as the best and the "front runner" in our jobs and in our education.