Finalizing our nightmare piece
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This week we started by some of the group leading a drama warm up exercise, the ones we did were:
- Messages (very relaxing)
- Emma's really tiring dance thing ("hip, shoulder, air, clap, shoulder, hip, thigh, clap") having to do this on the spot as well as jumping back and forth.
- Pushing back to back with out partner, then going up and down so both of us sat on the floor and then back up again.
After finishing the warm up games, we moved on to developing the final "scene" in our drama piece.
This part was based off of Chloe's nightmare which was being around a swimming pool for part of it.
We used this idea of a swimming pool and used a large round blue sheet to act as our pool. One of the four of us would sit each side of this. We then decided that we should bring the audience members around the pool sitting with us.
We decided to have four stages to talking to the audience, which would alternate. The four stages were:
- General Chit Chat
- Anger
- A Confession
- Seducing
We were put in pairs to just try and improvise these mini scenes on the spot. I found the general chit chat ok but at times I was running out of ideas to say or I would keep repeating myself. I also found I was trying to listen to what the other people were saying and almost trying to copy them.
At first when doing the anger scene, I was quite timid. I did not want to really make much noise and so wasn't really coming across as very angry. Then when Mr. Fearenehough said it was ok to shout I decided to shout. I feel this came across much better as being angry (sorry Emma) and i feel i may have slightly scared my partner.
Mr. Fearnehough said when we were doing our confessions, it would be easier if we included a little bit of truth in them and just blow them out of proportion almost. I used the truth of keeping change when a store gives you too much back, I then escalated that into me stealing about 100 euros a week from different shops around Toulouse.
Seduction .... This was probably the hardest one to do. The hardest thing I found in this was knowing what was too far. For this mini scene I worked with Chloe which at times made it seem slightly awkward. One of the main issues we all faced with this was trying not to laugh, it was hard to try and stay focused when we were doing this scene.
Now the whole pool thing in the middle begins to get a bit weird. We decided that to create the musky smell that Chloe wanted in her dream, we could wrap the audience in the "pool" (with them all lying down). This is what it would look like (this was with all 4 of us inside):
