My Research Task

Buckets by Adam Bernard

 Adam Bernards' "Buckets" tells its stories
through an irregular and vague script
structure. This consists of:
• 33 short unrelated scenes, each with their
own title
Buckets – • No allocated or consistent characters
Structure and • Flexible pronouns throughout
Style • No linear plot or stage directions 
This is an episodic structure used often to
convey a societal commentary from the
writers' perspective.
 Sarah Kane was a British playwright
who wrote controversial and extreme
plays during her short career in the
1990s.
• Kanes plays covered themes of sex,
love, torture and abuse
• Her play 'Crave' has minimal stage
Sarah Kane directions and characters, like
Buckets, and revolves around the
theme of 'pain through love'
• Kane had severe psychosis, which
greatly influenced her writing
• She is regarded as one of the most
important playwrights of the 90s
 Caryl Churchill is world renowned,
known for her plays about class,
sexism and society. 
-Churchill's 'Love and Information' is a
clear inspiration for Bernard's
Caryl 'Buckets', with 57 scenes and over 100
characters communicating an impartial
Churchill observation of modern society.
-Love and Information has received
mixed reviews over multiple
productions, as the repetitive nature
of the piece sometimes became boring
and lost engagement 
 Peter Handke's famous play contains 450
characters and takes place over the course of
The Hour a day at a town square. 
We Knew The piece is well known for having no dialogue
and yet makes a captivating observation on
Nothing of society. Handke does not impose meaning
Eachother – with the piece, letting the production speak
for itself.
Peter Handke has written many other plays, such as
Handke 'Offending the Audience' where the audience
are heckled and often reminded that there is
no play.
 Overall I feel like a greater understanding of
writers and plays similar to Adam Bernard's
Buckets is benificial for rehearsal because:
How can this • It broadens our knowledge of techniques
research be eg mime that can work with this style of
script to create a more effective piece
used in the • We learn what other themes are
rehearsal communicated through this style of script
in order to help shape what we want our
space? piece to say
Thanks for Watching!!