Today we decided that we should make final decisions on our version of "1984", so we could make appropriate staging choices. Below are the notes I made throughout this lesson. We will explore these notes further when we implement these decisions into our staging.
- Man & Father --> Members of book club. Real
- "ONE, two, three, four..." --> Memory. Army training? Way to calm the child down?
- Martin (book club) reads... leads into Winston's story (1st sees Julia)
- Martin is author? Written himself into the story? Martin is Orwell? At book club discussing his book
- Power cut (reality) leads to Room 101, O'Brien.
- Child "Thought-criminal" --> hearing this in his interrogation
- "Down with Big Brother" --> back to him writing
- Charrington --> memory --> church --> "oranges and lemons"
- Winston electrocuted --> back to book club (still in power cut)
We then used an image of a cake and gave it four layers. This was to break the split the characters down into four sections so we had a better understanding of the play. Below are the four layers and the characters that fit into them.
- Winston Interrogation (Room 101): O'Brien // Winston // Parsons // Woman's Voice // Telescreen
- Memories (Childhood). Not real or real: Child // Sister // Mother // Woman's voice // Telescreen
- Past reality (Actual events in Winston's life): Mother // Syme // Parsons x2 // Charrington // Julia // Parson's child // Speakwrite // Waitress // Telescreen
- Book Club: Father // Mother // Host // Martin // Man // Waitress // Voice
