Thursday, 5 November 2015

Part 2 - Process - Plot change

Plot change

Today we had a discussion about our piece with our overall Director present. My group were told that we didn’t necessarily have to have a script, as it's mainly just improvising around a scene that we have created, and the speech can vary and change, nothing has to be set in stone other than the plot and the cue lines. Also, that long speech will get lost as people are not going to want to stand there and listen for too long as they will just want to play the game. It was showing, that we were struggling to find ways about our idea as it was too simplistic and was hard to pull different things from it, so, we decided as a group to change the plot. Not completely change it, but enough so that we can have a bit more freedom to devise. So, we are thinking of loosely having the idea of repopulation attached to it. Our overall Director gave us the idea of maybe making it quite twisted, for example, maybe even having it as a twisted/perverted family.

We took this feedback on and decided to make a sort of adopted family. They are trying to get people to join their very twisted family, still in keeping with the repopulation, we decided to make it that they were a repopulation family. There will be one person, who will be me, going out and enticing people to come in and meet the family members. Elly is my unbothered cousin who doesn’t really care about this whole situation, if anything, she was more in to her games that she is playing on her phone rather than anything else. We thought this would be a really weird character as she is the normality within the freak show. Lily’s character was just basically a child almost, and she just does her own thing, like one to ones with the audience.


Next we will be performing our play to an audience. We are allowed to use extras so that our performance can come to life. We have chosen a male and a female character. We had to brief them to tell them exactly what they will be doing. The female as a Zombie and male as the dominant male character who will be winding the Zombie up to make the audience scared and making them all leave at the end by saying something like “Which one's mine?” and getting really close to the audience and making them feel uncomfortable, then dismissing them as if they are peasants. The Zombie will just get progressively more angry and noisy and making the audience feel like they need to run away.

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