Sunday, 6 April 2014

Dramatic moments

In our groups we had to think about what would happen in our space. There needs to be dramatic moments in our 1 hour period of performing. The characters need to have interactions with the audience and each other. There always needs to be something to look at or something interesting happening in the space at all  times. Each audience member will have their own individual experience of the play, which means as the actors we need to always being doing something different and interesting over the 1 hour period. 

We came up with some dramatics moments :

- a cleaner will hand a leaflet to an audience member promoting the revolution, a waitress will see her and take the cleaner and audience member out of the room and start shouting at them. 
The idea behind this is that the waitress is a strong party supporter and is very against the revolution. She will be threatening to tell the thought police about the cleaner and audience member.

-a cook will spill some soup as she walks over to a table with it. This will mean that she finds herself in trouble with another worker. 
She is another rebel and lives in constant fear of the thought police finding her. Therefore is very nervous when she does something as insignificant as spilling soup.

-the cleaner will be putting more posters up on the wall. At one point she will go over and look at one particular poster which is promoting children to join recruitment, army like camps. 
This will bring back a lot of hidden emotion for the cleaner as her children went away to one of those camps and have never returned. 

-the same cook who spilt the soup, will be caught stealing food. When she is caught she will tell the others that the government don't give here enough food to provide for her family. 
This will get her in trouble with the thought police. 

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