Tuesday, 19 February 2013

The Gameshow "She Loves Me She Loves Me Not"

This a gameshow that explores how complex a text can be. What does this mean? What does that mean? Are they into you or not? You find out in this show.

I assume many people have experienced the confusion of what a text from someone means, mainly from someone they fancy. This part of the performance explores that. We have Gavin as our presenter, Zach as Alfred Prufrock, Phoebe, Alex and Jordan as a panel, Alice and Amaya as the pretty ladies who reveal the text on the board, Nina, Catherine, Milly, Tiffany, Jesse and Katie and the singers who sing the jingles, intro and outros and Nina plays the guitar for them. Finally, we have The Scientists.

The Scientists consist of Gus (Dr Heinrich), Emily (Dr Higginsbottom), Holly (Dr schmaul) and me (Dr Boron). Our role in this is to analyse the text and give a final, concrete answer as to what this mind-boggling text actually means  because we are the scientists of love. We each have our characters for this sorted and we're all wearing geek glasses in this to look more intellectual.
Gus is an old German scientist with a hunchback and he walks with his legs slightly bent. His voice is slightly high pitched with a squeaky tone to it.
Emily is a posh and articulates her words with yet again a squeaky but nasal voice. She has a bolt-upright posture at all times.
Holly has a casual posture and a casual voice but speaks very as-a-matter-of-factly. Everything she says is said in a way that says no questions asked. I'm right end of.
I am an Australian scientist with elegance and I glide in. I'm last in thee line but my scientist self will still attract attention. I decided on an Australian accent because I can't really be boring and alter my voice, I need to do something interesting and an Australian accent is one I am particularly good at.

The order of the show goes thusly:
  1. Voice introduces "Dr Luuuurve" (Gavin) and he walks onstage
  2. Singers sing intro
  3. Dr Luuuurve introduces the show and Alfred
  4. Bring on Alfred (his theme tune)
  5. Alfred introduces himself and his problem
  6. Bring on panel (their theme tune)
  7. Bring on scientists (their theme tune)
  8. Pretty ladies reveal text
  9. Dr Luuuurve gets opinions of the panel
  10. Dr Luuuurve gets actual meaning off scientists
  11. Back to Alfred for verdict
  12. Tense wait
  13. Alfred still doesn't know
  14. Gavin ends show

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