Reducing Enrichment in Drama Performance

Turning a drama script into a prompt book, and then a performance, will be the process of enriching. The script is only the written words; two dimension kind of thing, the proscenium of the proscenium to be. There are words and nothing but words only. The elements of the script are rather lethargic since the dynamic one will be the performance of the drama. An approach to actually enjoy the drama script will be solely the reading session of it.

It will be different in a performance. Even though we enjoy the proscenium stage, we still can explore the whole performance by paying attention to various elements built in. The added value will be all of the elements are the elements themselves. There will be a gesture as the gesture. There is this certain place and time when all the actors meet and do activities in certain surroundings.

However, during my time trying to convert a drama script into promptbook, not yet a performance, what I have been doing is reducing the script. Firstly, I have reduced the scene. For technical reason, to perform a drama, we only have, more or less, 120 minutes for the whole performance. It makes us need to cut the scenes of M. Butterfly to make it possible to be enacted.

Like a processed meat, a drama performance is lack of the characteristic of raw materials but there will be the new spicy included. We do, what I call, the reducing enrichment. We do reduce a part or so when turn the words into a performance. Or maybe the enrichment happens in different space or dimension within the story.

There will be a compensation for the reducing parts.