Today we ran Act One from the very beginning without using our scripts as much as we could manage without them. We made corrections as we went along and added parts we thought we needed too.
Good Angel: We have now worked out what is happening with the role of Good Angel. Charlie is now playing both Good Angel and Bad Angel. To show the difference between these two characters, Charlie alters his body language and his voice. When Charlie is the Good Angel he has a stronger posture with an erect carriage and an innocent voice, whilst as Bad Angel, Charlie moves on a lower level, hunched over and has a gravelly voice.
Page 4: On page four, Faustus practises necromancy with Valdes and Cornelius. During this section, I do a few movements under a sheet to show Faustus summoning the spirits. However, today we put Charlie into this section. We got a bigger piece of fabric, and now he does the section under the sheet with me. We ran this once and we decided that we needed to make it clearer when Faustus fails. To show this we needed to drop to the floor quicker. Although we dropped quicker, the fabric took longer to float down. Therefore, Charlie and I pinch the material slightly so we can pull it down with us when we drop to the floor. This was more effective at presenting Faustus failing as this happened at the same time and at the same speed.
Page 6: Charlie and I go under the sheet to do another movement under the sheet, but this time to show that Faustus has succeeded. Charlie and I shall end standing under the sheet forming a distorted and creepy outline. We shall use lighting to make our figures look even more creepy, thus prompting Faustus to say "No, no, not that, I fear that entity". When Lewis appears from behind us, Charlie and I roll out and sit by the stage blocks at one end of the traverse. Lewis will sit on top of the blocks, and the rest of the cast (excluding Faustus) shall sit around him, in crouched and creepy positions. When Lewis moves towards Ollie, we shall crawl/roll/move over towards them. When Ollie is pushed to the floor, we all move to surround him to emphasise the power Mephistopheles has.
Page 10: We haven't physically blocked this section yet, but when Mephistopheles states "here is a treat for your eyes", we shall perform a freeze frame from each sin section, but mould them together with seamless transitions. This will foreshadow the events to come and the sins Faustus will commit. Moreover, by having smooth transitions between each freeze frame, we are showing that Faustus was lured in by the attractive offer. Rather than walking to the other end of the traverse with everyone else, I walk towards Faustus and "provocatively" move around him. Before Faustus' letter, I sit on Faustus' desk leaning back slightly, with Faustus pressed up against me with his lips on my neck. We then have a blackout whilst a voice over of Faustus reading the letter plays (although he has not recorded this as of yet). The lights come back on, and my hair shall be a bit messy to imply that we just had sex, as Faustus has already given in to the sin of Lust. As Faustus says his last line, he leads me to his arm chair, where I sit on his lap and move in to him as we have another black out.
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