Evaluation

I felt that our piece was interesting and that it went well because we both full committed to it I believe that the themes we wanted to come across was clear and very detailed I enjoyed performing the physicalised monologue because during those 2 mins i truly understood what was going through the mind of a mother who's son is at war. I felt her discomfort and also it made me think how much i value my friends and family because i couldn't imagine waking up everyday not knowing if they are still alive. I was happy with the choice of not having music because I noticed that from previous performance music sometimes becomes a distraction so i felt that without music there was  a full focus on what we way trying to explore. When it comes to creating physical theatre performance I always struggle between it become a dance piece and an actual physical performance I feel that this performance compared to my first physical piece was so much more less dance based but even during the monologue some of the movements we choose reflected more of a dance background. If I could do it again I think i would of tried to make the performance more deeper and open up emotions deep within make it more raw and relate able for myself as well as the audience.

devising lesson 4

 Exploring the doll in more depth was interesting as it was quite challenging to move the doll in a way that was realistic. What we have is now much deeper into how the doll moves, what it represents and it visually looks better.

We also developed the Mother/Daughter scene more. We were finding it challenging to make it non-naturalistic. So we decided to just play our objectives more, I would try and make Laura clean while Laura's was to play 

 We was stuck between having me learn the lines and do physical movements or have it recorded we then made the decision to have it recorded so it would allow us to be more physical with out movements.  

Going through the text and then experimenting with what physical actions could be used to represent the emotions happening making the themes more apparent and I feel that we have successfully interpreted our letter in a physical way.

Devising lesson 3

We showed the beginning of our piece to Tim in which he said that we should explore the doll more and make our soldiers physicality stronger therefore we decided to add more movement for the solider having him walk forward then back and it started to build up.

He wanted us to think about the movements of the doll, Laura's playing with the doll less child like making our movements more exaggerated during the mother and daughter scene making it less naturalistic and more physical. But overall our transitions worked well and we felt very happy with what we had so far.

We found a letter from a mother to her son who was in the trenches. after reading it we released that we can do a lot with it physically we the circled words we felt we could physicalise

Devising lesson 2

We explored Pavel Semchenko in which we had to keep eye contact all the time in pairs we moved around the room using different levels and physicality to fully explore keeping eye contact while on the move. I found this task hard as you had to focus a lot on where your body can go and you can still keep eye contact which confusing your partner.

Laura and I felt that this exercise could be used in our performance so instead of looking at each other we kept full eye contact with the doll we decided to do what we felt suited the situation so we ended up exploring the doll together and imagined that this will be the first toy we have received linking it back to childhood innocence.

 We decided to explore how the toy moved again and this time we both moved subtly when the other person moved the toy. Then Marian started to gradually use rigid movements. This emphasised the rigidness and we felt it conveyed our theme clearer. We decided to use slow motion within our piece as we felt this was a great way of physically portraying  the link between the home and the trenches.

I thought it would be nice for me to fall into the position of a mother cleaning the floor so we can still relate it to how the rest of the family cope with this ordeal. 

We was struggling to come up with ideas on what else could happen Laura then went and did some extra work in which she came up with the idea of saying a monologue and putting physical actions with it this is a simple way of showing  deep emotions that a mother would have been dealing with because of the affects the war.

Devising lesson 1

We was told to bring in different stimuli from our homes that reminds us of world war 1 Laura and I thought that it would be interesting to focus on the development of mothers and children during the war.

Studying the dolls for a good 5 mins we started to make some observations that in the dolls eyes it reminds us of a field in which soldiers would be fighting on. How easily the doll can be controlled reminded us of how soldiers are also puppets in which i came up with the idea that we could use the doll in our performance. I thought it would be different to have me copying the doll's movements and see where that would take us.

World War 1