At the beginning of the lesson we spent an hour and a half speaking about the whole performance. This gave the whole class a chance to speak about and understand the picture of the whole performance. We also had to work out the minute to minute timings:
1-2= Mia, Rio and Esme lead the audience in and Aaron is at the food stall
*At the moment we still do not have a method of entering the room whilst staying in character which needs working on next time. Esme will need to tag along at the back and not be noticable.
3-4= Zafra steals the oranges and takes them back as well as the washing line being dropped
*Needs polishing as every time some part of it goes wrong however it is a good method of transporting the audience.
5-6= Gesture theatre dance piece leads into the box opening and child being trafficked (Esme and Amelia trafficking and Poppy, Lili and Ruby for the gesture piece)
*Trafficking scene needs to be longer and should involve the building of tension using a soundscape
7-9= Charlie and Ruby dance on top of boxes to show a girl being taken off the streets and see that other life whilst the commuinity of homeless children lie below (Zafra, Poppy, Aaron, Lili, Ruby at first, Aaron)
10= exit
I spoke for my group to the whole class about the structure of the whole piece and the role of the audience, which we had decided will be tourists. The whole piece will begin by the sound of an airport and and an announcement saying "thank you for flying with Emeritz airline", which will be pre recorded.
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| This photo shows the running order of the whole performance and the format of the rooms (on the bottom right of the board) |
The above photo helped me to see the performance as a whole.
During the lesson we received the structure of the performance. The audience we receive are coming from the 'Syria' scene, it was my idea to use an airline which goes to eastern countries. Also, the audience will receive a booklet/ map of India by an air steward so they know where they are without it being specifically stated.
After the whole class had discussed ideas, we began to set up our scene, collecting cardboard from the recycling bin and working out how we can create the set.We later worked on the last part with the gesture theatre. It worked really well and we made a lot of progress because everyone had an input of ideas and also listened to and interpreted others ideas.
Amelia and I realized that the only thing which has been consistent in our performance is having the trafficker character. In our soup kitchen idea we still had the trafficker, now we have traveled half way around the world and everything has changed and adapted to the task and the cast.
In some of my reaserch i found this video. I had not realised that so many children were made homeless each day. https://youtu.be/SZvokDa9AkU
I have contributed many ideas during the devising process. Some of these have been what airlines to use linking our scene to the whole performance, having the oranges scene which is including naturalism theatre in our piece. Amelia and I thought of the idea of having Mixed media on a wall with photos and images and stories relating to the scene we are doing. I came up with the idea of having rag dolls. I had the idea of having a 'community' of street children. This was inspired by some research that I did, where it said how dangerous it was for homeless youths to be alone on the street because they are subject to sex and human traffickers and other dangerous people and how if they stay together, it is easier for them to survive. From this came the idea for who the trafficker takes. We already had the character of the trafficker from one of our original ideas, however, now the child she targets is the only child who is alone in the scene. When we decided that the audience's part in the scene is as tourists, I had the idea that we hand them a small map of India, therefor we do not have to state where they are and it uses different techniques. We later developed this idea so that the audience would be given a map of India on one side and a 'boarding pass' on the other. During the lesson we thought that we could have the sound of a baby crying in a box. I suggested that the sound could be coming from a phone because we could not work out how to make have the crying sound playing during the performance. As well as having to cut ideas from the scene because they are not working, the majority of my ideas have been small details and ideas which complete and tighten the scene of the Indian homeless children.
During this rehearsal we lost 2 of our scene characters, who are now going to be acting as British homeless children who take the audience from scene to scene during the performance. This did throw the group a little, however, we quickly adjusted and began on our work. During the lesson we finalized a props list as well:
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