Devising (7) - Rob's scene

To begin this lesson we worked on our motifs. We shall have four motifs in total. The purpose of these motifs are to break up our other scenes with something that will potentially confuse the audience. The below is what we came up with:

1. This motif we had come up with and worked on before. It consists of Ollie slowly walking across the room and then Lewis following him with a clipboard. 
2. Ollie will stand in the centre next to someone with a clipboard. The lights would flick to different colours, and Ollie would say what the colour is. 
3. Ollie sits on the chair at the side, as we all do puppetry movements with him as if giving him a brief physical examination to test his strength.
4. Ollie standing in centre with someone else moving his head in different positions. The motif would end with the person walking off, the lights flicker off then on once, Ollie jolt his head on an angle and go to fall back as there is a sudden flash of light then blackout.

After sorting our motifs, we moved on to Rob's scene. Below are the ideas we came up for Rob's scene:

• We could use the monologue from "Eight" spoken by the character Miles. Rob could speak this monologue and we could all create the scene around him using physical theatre. We thought we could involve him in the movement, similar to the DV8 piece of "Can We Talk About This".
• We could have him as a witness from the Boston Bombings or th 7/7 Bombings and do a physical theatre piece on this.
• We could include headlines for any idea we choose. This could be done as a voice over or as projections.
• Rob's character could be a therapist for soldiers and he could be describing how he can't stop thinking about some of their stories and by helping them he has been haunted.
• We discussed doing a 9/11 piece but he survived. We thought that Rob could be on his way to work but was late due to traffic. Or he could have been late due to a certain driver - Rob then could be cursing this driver before the event, but then realised that this driver's actions is the reason that he is alive today.

We then got really interested into our idea of doing something about 9/11. By doing the story prior to the event and doing it in a similar way to how we would have done the "Eight" monologue, we thought we would be avoiding any stereotypes. We then did a little bit of research into this topic:

• 8:46 -- Flight 11 crashed into the North Face of the North Tower between floors 93 and 99 at 466 mph.
• 9:03 -- Flight 175 crashed into the South Face of the South Tower between floors 77 and 85. Parts of the wreckage fall to 6 blocks away.
• 9:58 -- South Tower collapses
• 10:28 -- North Tower collapses