Lesson one

In today's lesson we began our devising project based on World War One. We began by creating a physical piece in groups of three. The peice used techniques from 'frantic assembley' to show three people in a ration line. It used pedestrian movements to represent people being anxious in getting to the front of the que. I found the peice effective as it gave me an idea of just how desperate people would have been to get food, it also allowed me to use movements I haven't used before and have never thought would have been used in theatre. It also taught me about devising to music and how music can be used as a stimulus to create a peice of physical theatre. I thought our groups performance was very good however if I was to do it again I would have included bolder movements such as jumps or coming out of the straight line as I think this would have made it more eye catching for the audience. 

We then worked in pairs of one boy and one girl. We wanted to create a scene of physical theatre, again to music, that would show a man receiving his letter calling him up to war and how his wife would react. Our peice began with cross cutting showing the man receiving his letter while his wife was oblivious in the other room. I thought this was effective as it showed how everything could change in an instance as as soon as the man walks into the room with the wife in and instantly her physicality changes from gentle to harsh. I think this was a good technique to use as it really represented the women's emotions at the time without using dialogue. Overall I was very happy with our peice but if we were to work on it more I would try and include more experimental movements and less naturalistic/pedestrian ones.