Friday 27 January 2017

Devising (9) - Mine & Rob's scenes

Overview of our piece so far:
  • First motif (Mental Health) - Ollie walking in, followed by Lewis
  • Rob's scene (Terrorism) 
  • Second motif (Mental Health) - Colours changing
  • My scene (Domestic Abuse?) 
  • Third motif (Mental Health) - Chair puppetry
  • Lew's scene (???) 
  • Fourth motif (Mental Health) - Head movements
Ideas and progress for Rob's scene:
  • Definitely wanted him to do a monologue (this idea was inspired by "Eight" by Ella Hickson) - we then thought this could be in the form of a suicide note (as Cornelius did commit suicide)
  • We discussed having the rest of us perform the event that he witnessed by using physical theatre - but instantly decided against it, as it would not only be difficult to present effectively but would also be quite disrespectful. 
  • We have decided that we would like to create a tableaux (of freeze frames) of this event, and perform it whilst Rob is reading out his suicide note.
  • I think that Rob could be fiddling with shoe laces at the beginning, and the audience would not know why. However, he would tie them to form a noose by the end of the monologue / suicide note, so the audience then understood it all. The only thing I am unsure about is how to do both ideas at once without the audience not knowing where to look and therefore missing things.


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