As I've been buried in writing about Theatre of Avant-Garde and the ideas of Meyerhold and Arrtaud, I began to think a lot about Death and the King's Horseman and my original interpretation of how I would stage the play. My original thought was to have a separation between tribal tradition and the english colonialists as different spots on the stage. I also mentioned originally wanting to use projection and simply create a big spectacle. Well, the thought of that and how I changed my mind to focus on a more Aristotelian point of view has not left me since that class. Anyway, a friend of mine sent me a video from the 'Fondly Do We Hope, Fondly Do We Pray" dance theatre piece by Bill T. Jones and the Arnie Zane Dance Company and it immediately made me think about Death and the King's Horsemen and all of it's avant-garde abilities within the production. If you don't see my point that's okay, it's still a really cool video!
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Zac:
You are right this clip was quite enjoyable and exciting. I hope to get a chance to see it soon. I really like the ides of using two stages and projections. I think the two stages will show how in one big space i.e. Africa and the theatre two completely different relationships to humanity and the world exist. I think it also might be cool to have some of the scenes overlap a little. Perhaps toward the end of Scene I we could start Scene II we the colonist dancing in the African garb. Therefore, you could have the contrast of the sacred ceremony with the Europeans trivializing it.
On the projections maybe we could see scenes of Europeans coming into Africa and their relationship with Africans including slave,gold and ivory trading.
These are just a few suggestions. I really wish we had the budget to do this play here as a studio show.
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