Rehearsal and Devising Week 3

The exploration of theatricality in our piece is done through our developmental devising process. We have split our performance into 7 main sections, due to the use of the information that you are given a flash back that works over seven seconds that fast forwards over your life. We separated lives chronologically and interviewed each other and members of the public to discover what particularly they remember from different stages of there life, be it insignificant and significant.

Memories such as:

• Ice cream flavours
• Arguments
• Fears
• Reoccurring nightmares
• Friends
• Play dates
• Films 
• Music
• Moments of heated panic
• Separation from family 
• Foods 
• Rooms
• Christmas

As well as many other insignificant and significant memories, we chose to separate life into 7 chronological sections and from this diagram below of what we had sectioned off in the lesson to structure our devised piece, and to confirm particular moments that we are going to start.

We are now able to merge and mix up the order, in the lesson I grew to realise that we can do this in theatre because it is such a freeing art form that has boundless limits and no set rules enabling us to create whatever we want without the constrictions of rules, laws and methods that are found predominantly in the outside world.

We also discussed the idea of the use of multi media to develop our piece and add layers to it. The idea is to record conversations that are significant or insignificant, regular or irregular and replay them whilst they are attached to the sides of the wall within our space. This means that different audience members will experience and remember different things that may particularly stick with them as it rings through there ears. It also makes our piece much more in-depth as each seven second that passes you get more of his life running through the piece and as we have asked the public at random this is more of a representation of society as a whole.

We want to make our piece as diverse as possible and exploring the space we have created meaning through our space with possible memories that  may occur of ring true from the site that we have chosen. We want to use an element of physical theatre to display a relationship between his daughter and the dying father and would like to explore it through the use of physical theatre. I also believe that this relationship gives the performance an element of warmth and heart and introduces a theme of love and protection into the piece as a man that is experiencing a lot of deterioration and destruction within himself.

I believe that as a group we are now at a place where we can feel more assured in our decisions as although it sounds contradicting our structure has given us more freedom to produce as we have given ourselves objectives and criteria's that we need to meet.