The Poker Game

Two full days in the rehearsal room playing games (during half term):

a 90-minute improvisation (which felt like 10 minutes!)
enough chalk, tissue, paper - mess - to fill a quarry
100+ objects
a multutude of books
other research materials
clocks
a poker session
chocolate flakes
hoola-hoops
soup
language games
flip charts
geology
Mother Earth stories
laughter
microwaves
Ludwig Wittgenstein
concentric circles
photography
ancient burial grounds
ice
music

The outside / inside project has taken great leaps this week and there is still a full day of discovery tomorrow...

In short, we have 20 scoops / 'cards' we are now exploring / developing / playing:

1. the game
2. the playground
3. walk / don't walk
4. the library
5. smoking
6. the wax children
7. the edge of-
8. the poetics of space
9. the photograph
10. the chicken and egg
11. i had a dream...
12. the tissue mountain
13. confession

14. the room
15. the body system
16. water
17. the outsider
18. prison
19. Hamlet
20. measuring

We spent yesterday crystalising 3 things:

researching / generating / layering

This morning we communicated research materials/ideas and, in the afernoon, layered the work generated so far by focusing on:

the visual / the aural / the textual