3. HOW DID YOU AND YOUR GROUP EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITIES OF FORM, STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE STYLE?
5.10.12
When we started devising a piece we originally came up with idea to create a continuous play with 5 characters all connected by a robbery they had committed and their plan as a gang to commit another crime. Rehearsals for the continuous piece were going well until we decided the piece didn't suit our type casts and we were very awkward with acting the scenes with each other as well as coming up with lines, it was incredibly difficult during spontaneous improvisations to come up with lines and bounce off each others characters as we all realised our characters were very random and normally wouldn't be put in a group together. We devised the piece going from the first scene working our way up to the last, we got to the second scene before we then thought of changing the play.
17.10.12
The play took a turn when we thought it would be a good idea to do some new random spontaneous improvisations to generate some ideas and get us excited about our play again. This is when we came up with some brilliant ideas with a running theme of secrets such as an infection revelation, an awkward date, hiding animals. hiding dead bodies, a plastic surgery stint and other ideas that we were really excited about. This was when we had a class discussion and thought as a team that for the first time we were confident with ideas and had fun creating them so from there we thought we should create a farcical production which means that we could all change characters, have different story lines and be excited about generating ideas.
1.12.12
We are currently working on a farce piece that is made up of 4 scenes. We've been working on the order of the scenes a little and when creating a scene keeping in mind the order that the scene could run. For example when working on the ending of 'the office scene' between the characters 'Margo, Jeofrey and Karen we considered the fact that all the other endings we had worked on had been wuite expected, as in you knew who ever was holding the secret was going to get caught and told off for it, so we thought we'd keep a similar ending but change it slightly and make it more unexpected by adding in a slight twist in the ending that the audeince wouldn't expect, we then thought as there is a twist that this could be the last scene as it would shock the audience more.
