We were set the task of creating a short piece of physical theatre around 1.30 - 2.00 minutes long. It was to show a family being told bad news and causing a family to leave home. We used this video as an inspiration stimulus:
I was working with Matt, Chris and Kelly. We were allowed to use two crates. In the video a lot of the news came through the use of the media. We used the crates to show a tv set, and to show that it was bad news that was being communicated, we had a rotation of movements that we went through in a different order. Kelly then went towards the TV as if we needed to know more, from this we simultaneously reached our arms up and pulsed our hands. Me, Matt and Chris pushed our arm backwards with the other causing Kelly to fall backwards, into me. This was to show that the events happening were frightening for children. We emphasised the curiosity by having Matt attempting to look to, and then Chris did movement that then pushed Matt towards me. Chris then mimicked turning the TV off, which is where I was able to push Kelly and Matt in the opposite direction lean towards Chris. We then did the act of packing, we decided to show conflict between the parents on who wanted to stay and who wanted to go. This meant me and Chris did a series of push and pull movements that became aggressive, not through violence but through him enlightening me with the situation in order for me to agree that we have to leave. We then brought the crates together and crowded around them, we did similar movements to those at the start as it showed the difference to our old life to our new life, the movements echoed looking around, being cold and scared.
I think this allowed us to think more creatively into how we could show bad news affecting the family. If we were to develop this, we would like to add dialogue that was fitting and make it seem right instead of clumpy. We would also like to add more to the leaving process and maybe aspects of the new place or the travel to get there and problems within that.
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