Our piece is very Artaudian. During the beggining, we have a "dance" montage, that links into visual poetry/state of a dream world. This is bit is very effective because of the abstract feel it has to it, which late contrasts immensley. I really enjoy this piece because we were given lines from the poem "The nerve meter" and physicalise them, so every move that is done, relates to the poem and gives off every emotions from every line from the poem, the audience just don't know it, and are experiencing the emotions of the poem without realising it, creating a dream world. This also allows the audience to be open with themselves. They do not know yet what this will develop into, so their emotions are open to anything, and so whatever happens next brings out nothing but pure emotion from each individual. This dance montage is also literally visual poetry, one of Artaud's aims. We went into groups and were given lines. We then physicalised these lines without any words. So, even though we are using no words, we are reading out to the audience the poem, but only with our bodies, which even though we are aware, the audience are not, so they focus on the imagery and emotions that poem gives out, rather than the linear story telling within the poem and the vocuabulary within.
I also like the still image and torch scene. I really like this because again, there is a rough scene going on here, but there still isn't a linear story line and so the audience is still basing everything they see with their pure emotions rather than WHAT is going on.
I love the use of masks during our ensemble pieces. This allows the audience to pick one of the actors out, which may represent something other than a human, and pick out little actions that he or she may do, focusing on detail rather than the plot as a whole. There are many aspects to this piece that i admire, something that would not usually be picked out from a normal theatrical piece. It also scares the audience because we do not know what they represent and then they do not judge the character based on how the actor potrays the character, but of the body movements, allowing it to be raw, animalistic and dream like. This is because people often focus on the facial expressions and the way the actor does everything, rather than one thing in particular, like body language. And so, because of the focus on that and the contrast with the simple face, the audience were emotionally detached from the actor, but emotionally awake within themsleves because of the strangeness of it all.