Steven Berkoff

Steven Berkoff was an actor playwright and theatre director he was mostly known for "defying the norms of naturalistic theatre" 

His acting technique 

-Mime

-Background movements 

-Repetitive actions 

These techniques are used to explore further the ways in which he approaches the text. Berkoff takes a physical approach on theatre he prefers to work with a non naturalistic style. Focusing more on physical movement instead of the usual that other practitioners focuses on such things as voice.

Couples

These pictures show the recruitment scene physically showing the males being checked to see if they are worthy of going to war. Each pairs performances showed a different light as some of the young boys going to war looked confident whereas others look terrified. 

Also the 2nd picture shows previous couples becoming more broken and  the  husbands becoming more distant until they become robots of society and what is expected of them. 

Show

During the performance we had 3 groups perform their physical theatre duologues together I felt that this worked really well with the performance. As each pair portrayed a different part of the war and how the soldiers copied being away from there family and friends. I especially enjoyed watching the performance based on gay soliders and how they are treated.

Show

In this picture it's showing all the females working as the husbands have now gone to war. We physically used our bodies to show how tried we are and how it begins with is being less tired and some what happy in the movements but as time went on it became more powerful and heartfelt 

Group rehearsals

I was put in a group with only females we was to represent the wives of the soldiers going to war.

After watching all the female performances we as a group wanted to to uses as many of the previous performances in the main show. 

Physically using are bodies to project our feelings towards the situation of losing a husband and having children