We spent the first hour sharing our scene's initial ideas with the whole cast of the performance, receiving feedback and thoughts to consider. By seeing the ideas of other groups we felt that our scene was unspecific and did not have a flow to it, causing the monologues to seem meaningless and not giving the effect of immersive theatre.
It was very helpful to see how the whole performance is going to look and also gave me inspiration on how to change ours. As a cast we decided, when presenting our piece that we would no longer base it in a soup kitchen in Britain but instead in India. This gave us more room to explore immersive ideas and characters such as traffickers, where as before the trafficker seemed out of place. After brainstorming our new ideas we felt as a group more positive about where we were leading our scene because we felt that street kids in India was more fitting to the targets for devising and would not be character based.
Although we completely turned around our scene, everyone contributed many ideas, which we then realised we needed to cut down. We created a map of the room which was now going to be a street in India, where different events will occur. The decision was made to not make the scene a structured story but instead create a scene where the audience are stepping into reality.
The group began to all think of specific ideas once we had an thought of how the room would be set. This included having true stories hand written on the walls with rag-dolls representing the children, along with graffiti, posters and children's drawings.
The street itself will be crafted by cardboard boxes, representing the temporary homes of the children. It will create an M/ zig-zag shape to allow the audience to move through the 'street', discovering new parts as they go. We intend to have the sounds of cars, especially near the 'community' of homeless children so the audience wonder how they get to sleep.
Performance proposal:
Our performance is set in a street in India, showing how homeless children live. The idea is that the audience are stepping into real life, where we will use the set, smells and sounds to create the immersive theatre piece. The scene does not have a set structure. The operformers will not tell stories, but we will have stories written on the wall. These will be first hand accounts from children who live on the streets in India. The sounds will be of traffic, to show the background noise that the children live with. The actors will be showing how these children live. The one girl who is alone will be taken away by the trafficer, who will bw seen as the audience are leaving, trying to tell her. Everything needs to be simple but obvious, so we can build layers of details. This will be effective because it will show the reality of how homeless children live.
equipment:
cardboard boxes
rage/ material
Rice/ relevant foods
juggling equipment
incense
tea bags
portable speakers
p[lastic cups and bottles
traffic sounds for soundscape
bin bags
posters and graffiti to mark the walls
sheets/towels
costume:
oversized t-shirts
shorts
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