sour cream of the crop.

Greetings friends family followers and fellow sleep deprived contestants. I write to you all from the comfort of my bed, ready for some much deserved sleep.
Congratulations are in order for team salient fruit who hail from BnG who took out the top spot. Judges awarded the prize based on the beauty in a relationship that was developed and fostered. Competition was tight with all three pieces attending to the themes with heart and soul.

Salient fruit will continue to work on their piece and hopefully keep us updated on three progress..........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- McBain

The afternoon after

Hello from Salient Fruit.

IN this time the Internet carked it so we had no chance to update. We have since our last post consumed a considerable amount of sugar fat and chips and one banana. We have a sexy potato. We have sour cream. There were two beneficial workshops and prior to that, there was a breakfast of failed bacon, sad hash browns and eggs in a hole... and juice. There was a song about the events that went on in a bear cave, there was some brainstorming and the revelation of the sexiest way to have nachos. We have had an amazing time, we are tired full of junk slightly ill and have a finished play with a script en passage.

Watch this show, it is worth it for the erotic cream. Trust me.

Salient fruit love.

Good Morning!

10am report.
Teams are up, well fed, and ready for workshop number 1.
I'll let them update you shortly, I've got a script to write.

-McBain

SHHHHHH

Forty five minutes ago I took up the challenge to write a short piece based on one of the remaining stimuli. 

So here I am madly typing away with an orchestra of sounds only the arts centre could provide at this hour. The rain patters lightly on the tin roof outside, the snores and restless shuffles of the 5 individuals passed out beside me as they drift in and out of REM sleep, and occasionally a groan (of pleasure? who knows) from the couple spooning in the far dark corner, away from the glow of my laptop screen. 

In the under ten hours worth of working time that I will get; I will present the showcase with a 5 - 10 minute piece based on the sensation of touch. 

I intend to touch on some sensitive and topical subjects, and maybe, spend some time on taste, sound, sight, and smell. 

There will be either fireworks, or a steam roller flattening out a roll of bubble wrap.

-McBain

P.S. other teams who want to maliciously attack me... the original plan is that you guys weren't sleeping this year. I'm being nice.

three degrees of art wank

the INCREDIBLE AWESOME (TM) is blindly stumbling along with head torches and our minds are frazzled with sleeplessness and our stomachs full of all natural jellies....Apparently we have to write a blog. But seriously, we are ACTORS...we are incapable of the written word. Screw you, Mcbain. PS. we have a script which is 2.5 pages long.....Mcbain says we are supposed to have one page per minute, so 10 PAGES. jesus christ. repetition will be used- this is quite the dramatic tool and very effective. the BRAIN needs sleep and our spirits are BATTERED and CUTLERY will be used as a tool against Mcbain and his evil sadistic ways. PPS. ad on the way.....we will try to find as many songs with the word SEE in the title....



We see your true colours.

It's getting late, chums

So, it's 3.13am. So far, our team has consumed 20 nuggets, 1 packet of biscuits, 4 large cokes, 1 bag of chips and a bottle of wine. We have put forward and cut down over 40 story ideas. We have blocked 2 scenes, scripted one, improvised several more, and played for a total of 3 hours on our allocated electric scooter. Yep, writing a play based on a disability is not easy, not only to write into the rollercoaster ride of having a disability, but also to make sure that noone in the audience is offended in anyway. In theory, we must present 'hacving a disability' as a positive characteristic as much as we can.
However, this late at night (or early in the morning), things are falling apart... ideas that we once were set on are completely out the window now, and characters have been replaced so many times, we've lost track of who's playing who. Among all this mayhem, however, it seems a remarkable and clever storyline is taking shape. I'm confident that by 7:30 tomorrow night we will be able to present something that is going to challenge the audience immensely, and alter their perspectives on how a blind or mute person really views the world.
I just need a coffee to get there...
Jess (Burgmann Team)

Trying to create creativity

Talking isn't the thing we want right now. It's action. Improv has been our friend so we can experiment with how our characters can react. Pizza was our friend as spongebob squarepants hurt our brains for that brief moment while he absorbed all water in a bathtub. Sex and fruit have been melded into a blob of talk. But we are straying from the old sexless couple that we've been talking about. We just need to try new things - then soon we can have our first block of sleep.

-Salient fruit.

Captain's Log

Finding our way through the darkness. Received stimulus resources. Panic broke out among the crew.

Fortunately all has been restored to THE INCREDIBLE AWESOME! (TM) thanks to some quick thinking and red snakes. 'Brain'wave breakthroughs have enabled us to 'Batten' down the hatches and get large amounts of planning done and eating was done without 'Cutler'y. We see a light at the end of the tunnel of the beauty of what the morning sun will bring. Mainly breakfast.

End Transmission

THE INCREDIBLE AWESOME! (TM)

Workshops all done

The first night of workshops are over. We are all on there own. The next meeting will be at 8am at breakfast. In theory we should all be prepared for characters, script writing, and improv work. However, in actuality we are desperately alone and smoke may or may not be starting to ...smoke... out of the walls. Buzzmonkey will defiantly cause hallucinations and paranoia from us humble theatre-goers. Time to start this baby, after us being thrown in the deep end. 11:20 and time to start a horror film with young theatre people. If the horrible monster doesn't get us, you'll hear more!

-Josh

Improvised Mayhem

Workshop 2 complete.
Our intrepid play makers have their heads spinning with ideas. The first session was looking at ways to start the process. Chris talked about methods of brainstorming, how to scaffold scenes of well known stories and the effective use of genres. His main advice was be ready to cut ideas both strong and shit if they are not fitting with the play. Highlights included meeting Batman's neighbour and learning the wisdom of not picking up the blue condoms.

The second session (run by the beautiful and talented Ben) looked at utilising improvisation techniques to help build a play. Performers had the chance to word associate, to rant and to talk about boxes while drilling for oil, pumping or just straight out doing it with a he/she. Hopefully our performers will take in his advice on the use of mantra's when repeating scenes in the development process.

Currently we have just heard "Innuendo, defence mechanism for a lack of humour' (Will) as our performers work with Geoff on developing characters which can control a stage.

The question is, will our players take on the advice they have been given tonight, or will they see it for the sham it really was attempting to take away three of their very precious hours, meaning that they will have no choice but to pull an all nighter.

Chris

Time to Improvise!

Sight, Taste, Movement.
These are the challenges facing three of our teams this year. All teams are currently scribbling ideas down on giant whiteboards and small pieces of paper.
Shortly though, an impro workshop with Ben and character work with Geoff. Thanks also to Chris for his tips on scaffolding earlier in the hour.

Next update at 10pm from Dean and Chrissy.

-McBain

food madness

Talking about food is a curious thing. we have now resulted in talking about what fruit looks like what body part. It is going down the road of madness for the next hours... we shall see how food means at the end for all of us. We hope that sexy chocolate will never be the same for anyone ever again.