15|1|14 - Site Specific - Find Me

We were given sections of the 'Find Me' script and then split into 2 groups to work on the section of script. My group consisted of myself, Chris, Abbie and Emily. For this we had to find a site that we thought we could manipulate for our script. The characters in our script were the Interviewer, the Dad, the Mum, and Verity herself.  We adapted the script to give a feeling of suppressing Verity's thoughts and reasons. The Mother was also very protective of the family reputation, this was also shown in the Dad. We did this by making it so we would finish each others sentences, as if we were changing the end of the sentence in order to hide wrong doings that were happening behind closed doors. 

We decided to start spotted around the staircase, we chose the staircase because the clear links to development and progression. It has links to where people stand and that the higher they stand the more knowledge they have. This is why we decided to have the interviewer start at the bottom and then throughout the piece, as they discovered more about how Verity was handled, she moved up the staircase, this then mean that the mother and father moved further down, as their power standing and how they were viewed meant they moved down the stairs. Verity remained on the centre piece that combined the two parts of the staircase. She attempted to move up to be with her mum, but her father dragged her back down with her violence. The only way she successfully moved up was when the interviewer took her away from her parents to move up whilst the parents moved down.

Because we weren't inspired by the site to use 'Find Me' we found it hard to create a scene that could fully manipulate the surroundings. But what we did find was after watching each others short performances is that the school contained a very institutionalised feel. We discussed other ideas of how we could possibly stage this piece, with mention of a promenade theatre style, where the audiences would be lead round the school. We felt that we all needed to develop our ability to use the surrounding to comply to a piece of theatre in an perceptive and innovative way.