[Script Info]
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[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.90,0:00:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[intro music]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.41,0:00:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[applause]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.67,0:00:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simon Stone: Hi. My name is Simon Stone and this is a bare stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.23,0:00:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Theatre director Peter Brook opened his seminal book, The Empty Space,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.31,0:00:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with this statement, "I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.90,0:00:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A man walks across this empty space while someone else is watching him
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.24,0:00:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.84,0:00:50.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There, you all just engaged in an act of theatre.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.51,0:00:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.54,0:00:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emptiness is an unnatural, but common state for a theatre.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.12,0:00:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before the theatre makers come to transform it with design, movement, and
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.01,0:01:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,language the stage is bare.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:07.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before an audience arrives in the auditorium it's just an empty set of chairs waiting to be sat in.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.65,0:01:12.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These two spaces face each other without humans to make sense of them yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.99,0:01:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a sadness to an empty theatre, to its not yet being.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.26,0:01:21.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's also an exhilarating sense of potential, a sense that anything at all could
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.47,0:01:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unfold in this space.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.41,0:01:29.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I want to look at today, the genesis of a moment of theatre, the first principles
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.89,0:01:33.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the art form, what theatre is capable of.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.69,0:01:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you're all watching an empty stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.52,0:01:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what happens when someone walks onto it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.92,0:01:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the actor up close.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.20,0:01:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is him facing the back corner.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.53,0:02:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is him lying face down in the middle of the stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.70,0:02:11.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is him speaking. This is him telling us what he had for breakfast.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.75,0:02:15.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unnamed Actor: [his speech is muffled] Two poached eggs and a slice of toast.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.33,0:02:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.18,0:02:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is him telling us what he had for breakfast with his face turned to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.39,0:02:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unnamed Actor: Two poached eggs and a slice of toast.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.08,0:02:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is him standing up.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.77,0:02:30.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what it looks like when only half the stage is lit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.85,0:02:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.74,0:02:39.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what it looks like when only a quarter of the stage is lit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.96,0:02:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what the stage looks like when only the person on it is lit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.53,0:02:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When only his face is lit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.76,0:02:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.60,0:02:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When only his lips are lit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.54,0:02:59.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.24,0:03:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what his lips look like when he tells us what he had for breakfast.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.15,0:03:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unnamed Actor: Two poached eggs and a slice of toast.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.05,0:03:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.18,0:03:07.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the actor lit only from one side.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.100,0:03:14.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the actor lit from the other side.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.61,0:03:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the actor lit in a different colour.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.77,0:03:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is him lit in one colour and the stage in another.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.20,0:03:25.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the actor in darkness.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.63,0:03:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.01,0:03:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is him in darkness telling us what he had for breakfast.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.27,0:03:30.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.73,0:03:36.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unnamed Actor: Two poached eggs and a slice of toast and some crispy bacon.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.87,0:03:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.80,0:03:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a light coming from the wings.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.32,0:03:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the actor walking towards it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.79,0:03:54.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a newly bare stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.26,0:03:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the high-pitched noise that's been on since the beginning of the talk turning off.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.94,0:04:01.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.91,0:04:14.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a different actor walking across the stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.55,0:04:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is two people passing each other on a stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.78,0:04:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is them passing each other on a stage making brief eye contact, smiling, then one
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.00,0:04:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of them looking back over their shoulder as they walk away.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.56,0:04:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.52,0:04:42.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is them passing each other, making eye contact, smiling, both looking over their
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.91,0:04:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shoulders, looking away, stopping, looking back, smiling again, and one of them speaking.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.41,0:04:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Anita?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.52,0:04:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simon: And the other replying.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.10,0:04:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Ewan?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.08,0:04:54.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.57,0:04:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Oh my God. Wow!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.12,0:04:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: I didn't know you were in town.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.40,0:04:59.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: I got back last year.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.39,0:05:01.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: I had no idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.11,0:05:02.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah, sorry. I meant to get in touch.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.50,0:05:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: It's good to see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.22,0:05:05.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.39,0:05:08.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the same conversation with her holding another man's hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.23,0:05:11.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.89,0:05:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Anita?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.56,0:05:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Ewan?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.34,0:05:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.62,0:05:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Oh my God.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.02,0:05:18.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.97,0:05:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Wow.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.12,0:05:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.06,0:05:23.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: I didn't know you were in town.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.25,0:05:24.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: I got back last year.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.70,0:05:25.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: I had no idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.67,0:05:28.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah, sorry. I meant to get in touch.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.33,0:05:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: It's good to see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.88,0:05:31.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.95,0:05:34.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what happens if he's with a group of friends.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.15,0:05:38.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.45,0:05:43.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Anita?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.58,0:05:44.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Ewan?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.83,0:05:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.36,0:05:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Oh my God.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.97,0:05:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.55,0:05:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Wow.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.04,0:05:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: I didn't know you were in town.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.54,0:05:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: I got back last year.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.77,0:05:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: I had no idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.68,0:05:52.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah, sorry. I meant to get in touch.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.54,0:05:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: It's good to see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.47,0:05:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.12,0:06:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is what happens if the same conversation happens in a crowded place.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.22,0:06:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.11,0:06:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is also what 63 people look like on a stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.08,0:06:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.56,0:06:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[same conversation happens but is barely audible]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.92,0:07:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.40,0:07:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK. So this is what happens if we raise the volume of their conversation.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.98,0:07:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Oh my God.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.25,0:07:08.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.97,0:07:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Wow.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.53,0:07:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: I didn't know you were in town.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.66,0:07:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: I got back last year.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.66,0:07:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: I had no idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.49,0:07:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah, sorry. I meant to get in touch.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.09,0:07:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: It's good to see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.12,0:07:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.80,0:07:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[crowd of 63 talking in background]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.84,0:07:24.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what the whole scene sounds like with a romantic underscore.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.91,0:07:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music begins]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.57,0:07:27.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Anita?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.39,0:07:29.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Ewan!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.07,0:07:33.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music ends]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.31,0:07:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or with an avant garde soundscape.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.97,0:07:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[buzzy feedback noises]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.32,0:07:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah, sorry. I meant to get in touch.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.30,0:07:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: It's good to see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.50,0:07:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.24,0:07:41.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simon: Or if it's set at a party.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.81,0:07:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[dance music blasts]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.06,0:07:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Anita. [raised voice]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.12,0:07:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: My gosh.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.20,0:07:48.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Yeah. Anita: Oh my God.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.25,0:07:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Yeah. I didn't know you were in town.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.00,0:07:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: I got back last year. Ewan: It's good to see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.72,0:07:54.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, I meant to get in touch.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.71,0:07:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.96,0:07:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[dance music ends]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.50,0:08:03.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...is what happens if the whole scene takes place with a crowd watching a talk, someone
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.33,0:08:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,delivering a talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.12,0:08:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Speaker: So it engages conversation with these people and mango has got an innate attraction
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.44,0:08:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to kids. I'm not sure if it's the screams and high-pitched talk, but she's fascinated
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.76,0:08:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by them. It could be the fact that the local school kids have a blue and yellow uniform.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.05,0:08:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.64,0:08:23.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Speaker: So she might think they're little fluffy macaws. But whatever it is...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.87,0:08:24.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[speaker's voice becomes background to conversation between Ewan and Anita]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.94,0:08:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Anita? Anita: Ewan?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.04,0:08:26.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Yeah. Anita: Oh my God.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.100,0:08:27.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Yeah. Anita: Wow.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.85,0:08:28.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: I didn't know you were in town.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.75,0:08:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: I got back last year.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.80,0:08:32.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: I had no idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.24,0:08:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah, sorry. I mean to get in touch.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.97,0:08:35.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: No, it's good to see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.14,0:08:40.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[speech ends with applause]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.07,0:08:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.54,0:08:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[applause]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.77,0:08:51.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: What have you been doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.17,0:08:54.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: [inaudible 0:08:45]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.87,0:09:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[crowd discussions]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.52,0:09:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Oh. OK. Thanks.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.43,0:09:07.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Maybe we could have a coffee some time?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.27,0:09:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: Yeah. Yeah. No, that would be great. All right, there you go.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.03,0:09:11.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: OK. Thanks.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.22,0:09:12.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: All right.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.83,0:09:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[sound of a kiss]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.36,0:09:15.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: It's good to see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.41,0:09:15.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.79,0:09:18.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ewan: All right. See you.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.94,0:09:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anita: OK. Bye.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.92,0:09:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a woman smiling.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.52,0:09:27.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a blackout.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.45,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter and applause]