CREATIVE LAB Premise

From: elitepigs@hotmail.com
To: bei_gi@yahoo.com.tw; wahwahmickey@gmail.com; zachary.ho@gmail.com; sooming219@gmail.com; fbb1973@yahoo.com; icaroybeto@yahoo.com; noushad_nadan@rediffmail.com; miyukikamimurajp@yahoo.co.jp
CC: ng_wai_shek@hotmail.com; themis_lin@hotmail.com
Subject: Exchange Spirits
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 03:08:22 +0800
Dear creator-performers of Creative Lab,

It will be another two more months before our lab exchange. I hope you have been conceptualizing and rehearsing by yourself, and are maturing your pieces of work. You shall join force with all the others when we all re-unite in Singapore.

REMINDER:
This CREATIVE LAB is NOT a night of individual projects joined together and performed one after another, as in TTRP studying times. It should be a workshopped piece of integrated work that has seen contributions from all the participants and has been worked through in an intensive 2 weeks of devising and working together. It is also our best hope that, two or more participants can merge their pieces of work together and co-perform together to further bring out the theme to SPIRITS PLAY.

The solo work that each actor has prepared before arriving in Singapore will serve as a starting point for this Creative Lab. The creative response is based on each actor’s sentiments and thoughts as developed from their reading of SPIRITS PLAY written by Kuo Pao Kun. It could be in any forms of theatre- word or wordless.

This CREATIVE LAB is a platform of in-depth discussion, exchange and actual floorwork, which reflects good about TTRP's vision and the will, passion and artistic discipline of its graduates to conduct cross-cultural works. Thus, Keep your email exchanges alive and active. Let’s reflect on each other ideas and giving different perspectives to challenge each other’s creation. The more we throw into discussion now, the more we can play with later. Before the physical exchange in rehearsal studio, our dialogue should start now in MIND and SPIRIT.

Proposed timeline / workflow

1) Presentation of solo works - July 27th, 28th - 8 hours.
2) Brainstorm and discussions - July 29th, 30th, 31st - 12 hours.
3) Partnership and workshopping - August 1st, 2nd - 12 hours.
4) Work-in-progress showings / feedback / detailing
- August 3rd, 4th, 5th - 12 hours.
5) Structuring and flow - August 6th, 7th - 8 hours.
6) Detailing and full run throughs - August 8,9th - 12 hours.

As you can see the time we have is short and compact. We either fail or succeed.

Looking forward to your exciting works. 加油！

Peter 佳亮

p/s: I am still waiting for your confirmed air flight and fare. Not all have done so, email me. ASAP