It's only the second week into the new term, and we have barely
recovered from our Christmas and New Year celebrations, and already a lot is
happening on the Performing Arts course at Bucks New University.
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| This Time Last Year - Film Still |
Our second year students are presenting the work of their Film and
Theatre Production module, in which they spend half the year making a film and
half the year creating a theatre performance.
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| This Time Last Year - Film Still |
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The film group was divided into 4 teams with the task of each devising,
shooting and editing a story strand that would cut together with the other
stories to create a full-length original drama. Titled This Time Last
Year the film runs at 45 mins, and features a mysterious briefcase, a
couple breaking up, a suicide and strange obsession.
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| This Time Last Year - Film Still |
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The film shot on locations around campus (including the aeroplane and
hospital simulation rooms) and elsewhere in High Wycombe. Other students in the
department generously appeared as extras in the infamous party scene, which was
shot over several hours in a student house one night.
Meanwhile the theatre production group is presenting Attempts on
her Life by Martin Crimp. Rehearsed as an ensemble piece under the
supervision of director Paul Edwards the production is an original take on this
experimental, postmodern piece of writing, which challenges the ideas of fixed
identity and linear narrative.
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| Attempts On Her Life - rehearsal photographs |
Yesterday both This Time Last Year and Attempts
on Her Life. were premiered at 7.30 in Drama Studio 1 on the High Wycombe
campus
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| Attempts On Her Life - rehearsal photograph |
Today the theatre group travels down to London to perform Attempts on
Her Life in the Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton, starting at 7.30pm. Tickets
can be bought on the door, but for more info check: http://www.thecourtyard.org.uk
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