The First Semester Production

And today is the day that I officially skimmed through 2 scripts that will be used for the first semester production. And I spent almost the entire day brainstorming by myself. Exploring different ways on how to attack and connect these 2 plays, which apparently, are set in 2 different time frames. But anyway, I was having this rush again, of wanting to know many things, wanting to discover new concepts, on how to make these 2 plays relevant for the young audience. And to think that these are socio-political plays back in the day, how can they be socio-political plays of today?

I started by using the songs that was mentioned in the second play. And after hearing it on YouTube, I started to think how am I going to use this music and the mood of it for the play.

I started researching on the following today

Radioactive Sago Project
Philippine bands of late 1990s and 2000s
Socio-political poets
Pinoy bands of Acid jazz and jazz fusion
Lady Gaga (ok, I really need to incorporate a style she used in one of her videos)

Also, I started to think of these:

casting dancers for the play (totally not in the original script)
had an idea for what the set will look like
how the play will start and what music will be playing
how posters would look like
etc
etc
etc

So much ideas popping in my head. But of course, these are just initial brainstorming. Marami pang pwedeng magbago!

I am just too excited! Never been excited and feeling so creative!!!