Week Five

Sadly Dr. Liz couldn't work with us today.  We presented our scenes with one another.  I presented my Sophie Scene with Fiona as Patti and myself as Sophie.  Fiona read the monologues that Dr. Liz had written for the character of Patti.  The Kaley presented her scene as Angela.  Fiona had brought in a third year BA study named Emma to help us develop pyshicality for our pieces.  She had each of us give three words attached to three actions that our character was struggling with.  We then did a pyschical excersise that put us into pairs.  Each pair had a person initating touch and a person trying to get away from that touch.  We could never loose our physical connection and it made the relationships between all three participants very interesting.  We used the Boal game Bomb and Shield in one scene.  Its where of the people in a group you silently pick one to be your bomb and one to be your shield.  You always have to keep the shield between you and the bomb.  The daugher (sophie) uses her aunt (patti) as a shield between her and her mother (angela).  With Emma's help we were able to get a certain structure of blocking for our scene.  The scene itself has a lot of elements of theatre of the oppressed within it.  It uses image theatre and possible forum.  It definetly sets up crisis points.  We are going to take this piece into Exeter prison for the group "fathers on the inside"  to help them explore ideas about honesty and loyalty.  Next week we refine the piece!