Research and Development
Over the past few days the Hammerpuzzle team have been working hard to bring together the basic themes, concepts and units of The Tempest.
This process has been a playful and creative one, in which all ideas could come together and grow organically. We wanted to get right into the heart of the play, to feel its rhythms and distinguish character and location, placing that within our own world and experiences. We broke the play down into small units of action to understand the movement of the piece as a whole, maintaining the Hammerrpuzzle motto of breaking everything appart to piece it back together again!
What resonated with all of us right from the start was the overwhelming feeling of loss, or being lost. Each character has lost their way in life, or physically lost on the island, and there was a sense of unease regarding the future. To begin with, we all tried to place that feeling within ourselves, in order to find the crux of our storytelling.
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