Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde with just two actors and an on-stage choose-your-own-adventure game are just some of the possibilities of the hybrid form dubbed 'cine-theatre'.
abc.net.au/news/cine-theatre-sydney-theatre-company-the-last-great-hunt/101360162There is a moment in Anna Breckon and Nat Randall's play Set Piece when Holly walks into the audience's view wearing a glass strap-on dildo.
Randall adds: "Often what we find is that [the] frame [on screen] is completely different to what the live moment is … There's this tension between emotional states that can be in sync or totally not.""For us, that was a pleasure, [seeing] what these two spaces can offer each other in tandem," says Randall.
"We managed to arrive at a distinctly cinematic style, rather than a theatrical style amplified through the camera," says Randall."I think cinema can capture this low-level, ordinary feeling in a way that gives it dramatic stakes," explains Breckon. Breckon explains: "The script becomes the vehicle for meaning to be made subtextually, which is more common to cinema, whereas theatre has a built-in preference for the text."
In one scene, a camera offers a bird's-eye view of Randall as Holly lying under a transparent table as she tries to manoeuvre a potato chip into her mouth. "There is a different level that the performers are arriving at every time they do a similar loop … There is a possibility to move in any kind of emotional direction," says Randall.For the actors, there is nowhere to hide. "With a close-up the performers' emotional state is so visible, you can see all the nuances going on," says Breckon.
"If the audience is looking in two different places simultaneously, what is that doing to their experience of the story?" she says. For Slaughterhouse, the budget for video was about $100, with the material streamed to a small projection screen in Belvoir's Downstairs space. "[We] meticulously staged the action on stage so that you would believe for most of the scene that it was filming live, and then they would start to diverge," she says.
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