Tale 8

At the end of the lesson we looked at tale 8 ad underlined words that created atmosphere to us, mine are as follows:

clap of thunder

suddenly youre in the wrong place

its early

eerie

just before sunrise

a burrow between buildings

concrete jungle

lawless tunnel in the gangland war

As a group we didnt quite understand the task as it was explained to us, so instead of creating a more contemporary piece we tried to depict a part of the scene with the tension. I dont think this exercise was very sucessful because we werent very focused or sure of what direction we wanted to take it but we decided to stage it with sarah, as the person who's telling the story, standing in the alley way. 

At first we were just a collection of strangers standing in an alley, almost as if we were waiting for a bus. then with the line 'suddenly youre in the wrong place' and a kick on the box me two of us turned to sarah backing her into the wall and trying to create a visual embodiment of the line 'a burrow between buildings' the scene was slow and quiet and as it looked like the two characters were going to hurt sarahs character, Alex (playing michellle) screamed as nina snatched her bag. We tried to use contrast in levels and volume to make the piece feel edgy and effective but as ive previously mentioned i don't think we were particularly sucessful.

We ran out of time to see the others perform their work, but i think with more time we all could have produced really effective pieces if theatre. I think that its important to sometimes use basic sounds and movement in place of lines and traditional theatre because it gives you a fresh perspective on the piece and the sounds and movement WITH the lines make a more effectve and  three dimensional piece of theatre. It means that the audience can not only sympathise with the characters and their situation but they can sympathise with the mood of the piece or with the atmosphere of the settings.