class performances

This week we carried on working on our class performances. we began by using the scripts we had written down from the previous week to work on our separate washing line pieces. I found it very useful to have what we were saying scripted as it allowed me to think more about how the character is saying something rather than what she is saying. in our group we have a mix of a gossiping piece and more serious piece speaking of the men at war. i think this is a good mix as it accurately represents what would have been happening in Britain at the time and how many mixed views there were on war.

We then continued working on the physical theatre side of the piece using the shirts. We included singing of 'keep the home fires burning' as the lyrics were very appropriate to the scene we were acting, we also included us waltzing with the shirts that were left from our husbands, brothers and fathers. this looks very affective as it is a repetition of what we do in the tea dance and shows a later stage in the war where these women are no longer dancing at tea dances but instead alone. finally we move into our physical theatre piece which we do in small groups showing women hanging up washing. in our group we decided to make our piece slightly simpler and cleaner as some of it got lost behind us moving the shirts. instead we went for bolder moves using mainly our arms and legs, this meant it was clearer for the audience to see and also allowed us to get everything right repetitively.

overall I think our piece looks really good and shows a diverse and accurate account of both the home life and front line side to WW1, however when we continue working on it i think we should work on all of our spacing and staging as we are all still finding ourselves in the wrong places and by working on this it will create a much more dynamic and impacting piece.