Woking on Group Pieces

At the beginning of the lesson we split into our separate groups and worked on a new piece to add to our promenade theatre . We began by splitting into girls and boys. The boys began to devise a piece based around soldiers mannerisms, so they began to think about what type of clothes they would be wearing, how they would put them items on, how where they feeling ?

The girls split into groups, Me, Isabella, Rosie and Tsion worked together and created a short scene based around four women all dealing with men in their lives being in the war: Libby, Madeline, Agnes and Alison. Agnes (played by me) knows that her husband Henry has died in war and hasn't told Libby, Madeline or Alison yet, she is bitter, cold and cannot seem to sympathise with Libby, Madeline or Alison who are all missing their husbands/son. We wrote up the script and created a  small scene just to start to get an idea of the staging of the piece which will be improved as we research into the 19th century more especially on women.

We then performed our peice to the others and gained feedback. The most useful feedback was from  Ellis who said that we should research into the way women spoke in that period. I thought this was a good piece of feedback as I'm not sure how my character should speak, so this will help develop my character into a realistic woman of the time period.
We then watched the boys pieces, I liked Daniel's piece but felt there was too much in it, Isabella suggested to him to keep it minimal and just shave which was a great improvement once he began to put the suggestions made into practice. I learnt from this week that simpler is better because doing something over complicated can look messy and confusing, whereas doing something simpler enables you to define it and make a small idea, something big.