Recreating film on stage can be an interesting idea, and one that audiences can find very entertaining to watch. The recognisability of seeing your favourite moments recreated in front of you can be exciting.In Flickbook Theatre’s production of ‘Three Words’ a recreation of an old movie scene is used to show a moment of romance in classic cinema. This not only is interesting, it is also comedic when they have moments like having hair blowing in the wind being created by a fan off camera.

From Bridget Jones to Gardians of the Galaxy, we recreated some of our favourite movie scenes live on stage with the projected image and sound effects to help us along the way. This mediated image creates a intertextuality of mediums and makes the audience aware of everything that is happening. For example, in one moment of our Bridget Jones scene, we staged Mark Darcy behind some of the ‘yobs’ on the street, so that the audience could only see him on a screen. This created a dynamic that was interesting to see as the audience were forced to take the live body and the mediated image into consideration.

In Virtuoso (Working Title), Proto-type theatre use this intertextuality to use closeups and create images and conversations that otherwise are not visible in the physical space. “This movement between the theatre space and the screen suggests a complex dynamic is at work bounded only by our ability to suture the fragmented images.” (Bay-Cheng, 2010, 161) This explains that it is only with the combination of these two mediums, the audience is able to make a third image out of the fragmentation.

This is highly interesting and this combination and cross-section of mediums creates for something that can only be created in theatre.

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