Rough Theatre

Peter Brook's piece about the Rough Theatre is an interesting and important perspective on what a theatre is. I think that his overall point is that you can make a performance out of anything, anywhere, with anybody. A rough theatre doesn't require the glitz and glam to be entertaining, it requires someone resourceful and creative enough to use what they already have to do something wonderful - or a lot of the times, wonderfully terrible.

My rough theatre would have to be anywhere my best friend and I took our Flip Video Cameras. We would come up with really weird, middle-schoolerish skits, mainly in Walmart. Filming in Walmart allowed for an endless amount of props (for free), meaning endless possibilities. We used sunglasses, PillowPets, Iron Man masks, toy swords, and those really small tricycles. These skits were really, truly terrible but they made us laugh not only during the end result, but in the process. I am not sure why they didn't kick us out, but they should have.

Scary movies are practically the foundation of our friendship, so of course we were bound to make our own scary movie. We kind of remade Scream but in about five minutes, using the remote to the TV as a knife. She held the Flip Camera and acted as Ghostface, creating a classic POV shot from the perspective of the killer. But of course, we weren't thinking about that kind of stuff then, we just didn't own the mask.

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