Final Performance

In reaction to our groups devising process, our final performance became very reflective of the group’s members and their relationships with eachother. As a result, the piece became very Meta- theatrical in the sense that we were intrigued to create a short performance based upon the premise that in our chosen group and setting it …

Differences

Our Differences was the next theme we tried to look at. In our group, we have quite a few distinct differences such as: race, ethnicity, gender, religious views, social/political views. We thought it would be interesting to try to create a piece that was about ourselves so each week we would debate one of these …

Chair Duets

Chair Duets – Frantic Assembly We researched into Frantic Assembly, they are a contemporary theatre company that was founded in 1994 by three students; Steven Hoggett, Vicki Middleton and Scott Graham. Their concept of chair duets was an influence for our performance. For our piece, we experimented with chair duets using the influence of Frantic Assembly, Michael and …

Maya’s Solo

Representation of Maya’s constant need to use her mobile phone During my solo on my phone, although I am oblivious to everything around me I know when they are trying to take the phone from me and a sequence is made between all four of us because they are trying to retrieve the phone from …

Heated Discussions

When working in our group we realised that most of time our process was interrupted with debates or heated discussions which is why decided to use this to our advantage. The first debate that occurred was between Zoe and Michael, and whether or not it was okay to use the ‘N’ word in general conversation, if …

Initial Ideas

Our initial ideas surrounded around creating a performance about us as people rather than us a group, as we were very fortunate to have two white males and two black females in our group which gave us a lot to explore using the themes of sexism, racism and white/male privilege. Though with this idea, we didn’t want it to …

Initial Ideas

We began creating this piece of work much like any other devised group performance. First we needed an idea. This idea or stimulus would be the foundation to which we would work around when choreographing our performance. This caused problems of its own, many problems. We found it difficult to define our intentions as we …

Distraction…

From the very beginning of our devising process the group seemed to splinter into two sub groups, with a female and male divide. At times this led to a lack of clarity in the rehearsals as I (Michael) struggled to identify with what direction the performance was heading. In comparison, we used our understanding of …

Rant

During the rehearsal process, I would often speak long speeches about the subject we were discussing that week, this became a joke among the others in the group. We decided to incorporate this into our performance as a way of portraying our process. During the performance, Michael pushes my chair forward to the front of …

‘Playing’

Initially in the devising process, as a group we struggled with identifying not only what are main intentions and focus would be, but also how we would portray them through movement. As a result, Jordan and I found ourselves attempting to discover our “relationship” through improvisation. We experimented with a number of professional techniques such as Corporeal …