What does Birmingham Opera Company represent?
> They use volunteers called 'participation actors'
> Often perform in Promenade
> The principle roles are likely to be professionals
> They scout people out from other performances, especially participation actors
Community theatre
+ Helps the people of the community to access the arts
+ Can help diverse the cast
- Bring people of different priorities together, people who maybe aren't as interested as others could distract those who do.
- Makes the performance seem amature
Q: In what way can participation improve art?
> Fresh look when rehersing
> Can help spread the word about
> Gives people oppertunity to try new things and enter the arts
> The idea that if you diversify the cast, it can also diversify the audience
> Bring people of different backgrounds together to a neutral space,
^ Nobody then will have a high comfort of being in a place that they are familiar with. Everybody is on the same playing field with equal experience of the space.
Music is used with extremes, to guide the audience with emotions, thus, even if the audience can not keep up with the words of the characters then they can still feel what is accruing at the moment with the help of the music.
^ Drama of the music with creates the narrative
Birmingham Opera are looking at the 'Social Responsibility' and all of the plays that they are looking at for the terms project. The idea of looking at the character within the plays and looking at the social responsibility of them.
Q: Who else might this piece have reference too?
& would it differ for them?
^ In relation to the persons history and life story how could they relate to the piece in front of them?
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