2 plays: the Author by Tim Crouch and Hamlet by Michael Grandage

The Author and Hamlet , Which are absolutely towaeding different drama genres, are the
two plays I have seen in london so far. Both of them give me different tastes from the western
plays I had seen in china before, especially in the relationship between audience and performers, although I admit that I couldn't understand the 100% performance because of the language and
culture barrier.



Because of the none-stage in the performance enviorment, you could easily had the expection that performers would be involved in the
audience as well as clearly tell the impression when you had your
seat in royal court, intrusion and contradiction, which was described
by the relationship between the two birds in the post of the Author.
You are so right. When the performer who sat in group of audience began to talk with his neighour, it obviously shocked her, with feeding all the other audience's desire of peeping as well. As a result, all the spectator were activated and eagerly trying to find the clues about the hiding performers at the first half of the play, which was contributed by the fresh form of the performance. However, after the appearence of all the performers and 1-2 times scenes passed (with the signal that all the light went out and music was on), audience started to get used to uncomfortable, interesting relationship, at the same time, feel a little bit boring owing to the context of the long journey to create a drama, which finally limited their participation and creation in the performance.




In comparasion with the Author, what interested me in the experience
of seeing Hamlet was more about how to attract audience based on a
classical play which was far away from the mordern daily life. The director completed his attempt both by the drama producting
techniches including hiring hot stars and using the mordern
architectural satge design and the most importantly, by interpreting the long-history Hamlet in a mordern exaggerated and hysterical approach, which had a great mental impact and almost caught the audience's laughs and tears. For instance, The Hamlet was wearing casual T-shirt without shoes, with both giggling and roaring all through the performance.



What I learn from the two plays is to find the appropriate relationship between the audience and the performers is the first step in creating a new performasnce. Therefore, to create my own's, I should collect more evendices about the relationship in different experiences in this term.