In today's lesson we began to get the first scene ( from which we made a tableaux) up on its feet. We began to work on the opening of the play and I suggested that it should reflect the ideas and theories of Brecht, who is one of our chosen practitioners. We all agreed on this and we thought of how we were going to go about this. Since we had previously discussed that we were going to be politicians, we started the play off in an office. I suggested that we all sit in a line and act like a 'human conveyor belt' and pass these papers amongst the three of us. We all decided to have different functions, I decided I wanted to portray typing into a computer as this is something which you would find someone doing in an office. With our ruling idea being deceit I thought it would be interesting if the papers these three women were reading had something written about Macbeth, with this in mind I suggested that we would smirk at each other; also there will be something written on the back of these papers which the audience would be able to see. We haven't thought of what it could say, but I was thinking it could have different words from the play which related to Macbeth.
In the second half of the lesson we just began to enhance this scene even further. There was an idea that all three of the witches would go down under the table and come out through the other side into a whole new scene. This was a really good idea so we decided to take it further, we agreed that we would be in a club and this really kept in the theme of deceit as not everything is what it seems to be. We then carried on with this idea of deceit by having the three witches 'remove' any piece of clothing which made them seem some what normal and have them show their true selves as they begin their spell.
Daniella. VERY WELL DONE. I like an number of things about this blog entry. First of all it is easy to read and I can see what you are talking about. This will get you higher marks in your SWED. You also relate your devising work back to your ruling idea and which is exactly what you are doing. I like the fact your are trying different method of devising as well like tableaux and still image work. This will help you clarify meaning and status of character and give you ideas about where to go with a scene. You also bring in ideas about the practioner you are thinking about using (BRECHT) which is great because then we can see how you might apply their theories and techniques to your devised piece of drama.
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