a street play is not so much about getting into the character as it is about getting the collective behind the message. So the first and the MOST IMPORTANT THING- everyone in the team should relate with the message.
having said that its not that easy, people laying the play need to understand the political stance of the play and why is the group taking that stance, politics is central to the narrative and hence its understanding.. once that is built and the motivations of each character is understood lets get down to the other part.
next step is to do a play reading few times and get comfortable with the script. then start deconstructing it. a street play proceeds formation by formation, the way a play has scenes a street play has formations, but there is more to formation than this. formations are symbolic, and this idea can be used much more beautifully. since characters are not frozen (except maybe generally the narrator/sutradhar)Start working on formations first, work on walk, on building the attract street grabbing personalities that you have to become.....to build that refer to multiple acting session tips before and after this post.dressing up as a group in one getup suited to a streetplay genre will do good.
next layer is sound, sound from the movement, sound from body (yell, thump, clap) it should synchronously move fluidly with physical movements as if choreographed., take the ambiant sound into account, a passing train, traffic signal, vehicles honking....integrate that into narrative... make that a part of telling the story....next is the added sound ( a dufli, bucket, metal, guitar-though its uncommon, banging plates etc)... treat all these carefully and think before adding/ subtracting them
last layer is the spoken work- the tehen
street play scripts clearly can be divided into three segments -
rhythmic- singing,
internal narrative- dialogues/ character statement/introduction
interactive narrative- interacting with audience and talking to them(beyond the sutradhar's wordings)
approach and build it layer by layer and showcase when ready....here is one excercise video from suzuki's methods that might be helpful. Also adding to the list of videos is some live performences of street plays.
having said that its not that easy, people laying the play need to understand the political stance of the play and why is the group taking that stance, politics is central to the narrative and hence its understanding.. once that is built and the motivations of each character is understood lets get down to the other part.
next step is to do a play reading few times and get comfortable with the script. then start deconstructing it. a street play proceeds formation by formation, the way a play has scenes a street play has formations, but there is more to formation than this. formations are symbolic, and this idea can be used much more beautifully. since characters are not frozen (except maybe generally the narrator/sutradhar)Start working on formations first, work on walk, on building the attract street grabbing personalities that you have to become.....to build that refer to multiple acting session tips before and after this post.dressing up as a group in one getup suited to a streetplay genre will do good.
next layer is sound, sound from the movement, sound from body (yell, thump, clap) it should synchronously move fluidly with physical movements as if choreographed., take the ambiant sound into account, a passing train, traffic signal, vehicles honking....integrate that into narrative... make that a part of telling the story....next is the added sound ( a dufli, bucket, metal, guitar-though its uncommon, banging plates etc)... treat all these carefully and think before adding/ subtracting them
last layer is the spoken work- the tehen
street play scripts clearly can be divided into three segments -
rhythmic- singing,
internal narrative- dialogues/ character statement/introduction
interactive narrative- interacting with audience and talking to them(beyond the sutradhar's wordings)
approach and build it layer by layer and showcase when ready....here is one excercise video from suzuki's methods that might be helpful. Also adding to the list of videos is some live performences of street plays.
