Total theatre and further development to final piece

Today was an extremely exciting and yet challenging day. After our warm up we began looking at different physicialites of different characters form the lord of the rings. As we retained eye contact with a partner we moved around the room , experimenting with the way we could move and really pushing ourselves to exhaustion. As Grotosky would have pushed his actors. Building on the exercise we looked at different levels of intensities of our movement , we also added sound to our character. After this exploration we were put into groups and began working on total theatre , using themes from lord of the rings and writing we had written previously about England.

My group wanted to explore the city and country side , revolution , rich vs poor , and things being taken away. Originally it was very challenging devising. My group seemed to bne getting stuck on details and finding it hard to use the lord of the rings successfully. However once we stopped thinking so much about what characters in lord of the rings could represent people in our pieces about England the task became easier. We started focusing on our text more and using out of the ordinary physicality to express emotion. Our piece begins as a representation of the shire. We all wake up and create a soundscape of the shire while dancing around happily with lucid movement. We then all take a world from Jasmine's piece and repeat it. At first softly then we build the intensity to a very unpleasant over happy state. We then get punched down by a police man. Using again text from Jasmine. The revolution then starts. Here we are representing uprising in the cities. With a big influence being the riots. Our physicality become much more violent and animalistic. Each of us has words relating to all our topics we explore. Our speech is deserted giving the piece a creepy very intense feel. Will is a police man and we manage to take him down. There is a huge sense of relief as we sigh on the floor. Yet when he rises again we revolt even more passionately. Eventually Jasmine is killed. Representing the sacrifice of so many made for the good of a movement. We also incorporate some text from an inspector calls in this scene. Talking about learning from the people who revolt and realising we are all just people in the end , all responsible for each other and ourselves. Jasmine is then lifted and we all join to carry her back to the peaceful shire. Jasmine sings a song about coming home to a beautiful England. I particularly like how the song talks about coming home to a beautiful England just after all the horrors we have just demonstrated.