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21st March 2017
Today we got given our piece and we started picking at the poem and how we interpret the poem and ideas about it. We then looked at her book and saw that the whole book was very feminist and about female oppression to look more in to it, we then went to the LRC and googled about female oppression in the different countries I looked at Kenya, Louise looked at Afghanistan, Niamh had Ghana, Chloe had Siberia and Rachel had India. Since it is where she lives and I thought maybe we could find something about the female oppression where she lives. Afterwards we then print off our information we all found and read through to see if there was anything we can use for next lesson to start devising

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22nd March
Today we started looking at what we can do for our scenes. We decided Niamh should go first ad that she should be a victim for this scene. We read over her information we found which was about a woman who had an affair outside a marriage and was pregnant, she was stoned to death and the man received 50 lashes. We couldn't think of a way we could do it effectively. I then came up with a idea to do a live news feed thing. We all had an idea of when she does her monologue she mentions a part of the poem. And she has the atlas out and then Louise coming out and taking it to then go on to her scene and so on. We thought this is a good idea because it was a way of having the atlas in the scenes so that it is always involved.
We then thought about having a globe out at all times and pin pointing the different places we all have referring to the poem. "where does it hurt? it answered. everywhere, everywhere, everywhere."
We then thought because Chloe wasn't in it would be better to go and spend time on our monologues while we have the chance instead of devising without Chloe and it not working when she comes back and also so that she can be apart of the whole process.

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23rd March
In the lesson we went over everything Chloe had missed from last lesson and ran through it. After we started to devise Louise's scene because then she knows what to include in her monologue and what not to have in the monologue. Louise's information was about a girl who was raped in her house. I came up with the idea of her maybe confessing what happened to her to the police or a hotline and made a group decision and went with the police. We had Niamh and Chloe as the police officers who she was confessing to and then we thought a good idea was to have Rachel as Louise's conscience to show her battling herself in a way to not tell the police even though she should. I also had an idea of adding the tea analogy that I saw in a soap I watched. So we thought was we should do a freeze frame and the Rachel and I both walk through and say it. This was a good idea because it was interactive with the audience. At first we did decide to do it for Rachel's piece but we all thought it fitted in better with Louise's piece

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28th March
In this lesson we did Chloe's scene and Rachel and I's scene. For Chloe's scene her country was Siberia and was about women get sold for money. We came up with an idea of doing a show of where women are being sold but they couldn't be sold if they had a bruise etc or they will just be killed. We came up with this because we thought it would be good for audience participation and also to make it interesting. Rachel and I was the host, Chloe was the victim, Louise was the body guard person who brought her on and notices and bruise while we start bidding and then we cut to an "break" and Chloe got dragged off. This was good because it showed the harshness of reality of what some women go through. After we did a couple run throughs to make sure we knew what we were doing we went on to mine and Rachel's pieces but because of the lack of time left we had we decided it would be better to do a scene together. We decided to do it where we sat down and Louise and Niamh circled us and told us what to do, for example Louise would say to me go clean, you're not allowed out the house and i would then reply "NO" and it would build up with both of us saying no and then we all stood in a line and saying a quote that Warsan Shire wrote for Beyoncé which was "I don't know when love became elusive. what i know is: no one I know has it" which we thought ended the scene nicely and fit in with it really well.

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30th March
Today we performed our piece back to the class after we had a quick run through making sure everything was smooth. I think our performance was good and sent the right message out which is what we wanted. However our transitions were not as smooth as they were in rehearsals as we forgot to take of the chairs so it slow down the change of scene longer then needed which is bad because it looks unprofessional and can make the audience loose interest. Overall i think our performance was good and we got some good feedback. Alice said it was good because it showed different feminism in different places. But we got some bad feedback from Corin who said that he thought it was very one sided, which it was but it was suppose to be because if it was in England then i could see what he means because it isn't just women but for the countries that we looked in to it was only women be oppressed and using the poem we got it was very feminist which is why we did it like we did.

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We all got in to pairs, I was in a pair with Rachel and we decided to make our chair duet a story about two people in a relationship that want to let go but find it too hard and wont let each other go. We showed this through the movements of one of us trying to leave but the other person pulling them back in. In the first lesson we got the a few basic movements to get us started and then in the second lesson we then started to create the story more and then adapting the pace to which ever song was playing which helped us learn our movements quicker because of how quick we had to do it on fast songs. If we got to chose a song we would of chosen a slow song to suit the story more. We then developed our duets more when we did a whole class chair duet with one after the other which meant that we had to work on having smooth transitions with the people before and after us, this was good because it gives us more practice with doing transitions since they are a big part of a show because they got to be quick and smooth or they look unprofessional and it delays the whole performance longer than need which means the audience could lose interest. Overall our chair duet went really well because we both contributed loads of ideas. If we was going to do this again I wouldn't change that much because we didn't really have a problems coming up with any movements.

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For our first lesson of puppetry we made them which was quite a easy process which was us using newspaper and rolling it up in different ways for different body parts. Once we made our puppets we decided on giving him a name to help with giving the puppet a character and we all decided on Atticus McWarreston which is a mixed of all our last names. As a group who is controlling which body part, I have the right arm, Luke had the legs and Rachel has the left arm and head after this we practiced moving him around the space in the classroom and getting use to moving the puppet together and being in sync with each other which was hard at first but we started to gradually get the hang of it and did little movements while walking it around by communicating with another groups puppets and pretend to have a drink etc. In the next lesson we had we join another group so that there was two different groups that had two different puppets each and we had to create a scene. Our group decided to have the two puppets having a date night, this was ok but we struggled sometimes as our puppets head fell off so we had to be careful with moving the puppets head too much. I think our scene went well as our movements with the puppets was good and we also had background music to set the scene more and helped us with physicality overall.

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I think our in the round performance went quite well considering how much we struggled with getting an idea to develop. The strengths of our performance was that we made a better plot after running through the last piece where everyone died, this made our piece better because it was a more interesting storyline for the audience as it was less predicable so it kept them interested. Another strength was that it had comedy involved which is good because it keeps the audience interested so they don't get bored. Another strength which is feedback what I got given from another group is that they said they thought it was a good idea because it was different and unexpected, this is good because it means they were watching and enjoying the performance which is what you want to do for an audience.
A weakness of our performance was because we took so long to get in to devising a piece that we were happy with it gave us less time to rehearse the piece that we were happy with as a result of this we did forget a scene in our piece where we plan the prank another thing was we was the ending part where Cam stabs Tom went a bit wrong as he didn't stab him how he was suppose to this was because we didn't have enough time to run through the piece so that it was familiar to us. Another weakness was because we took a long time to settle for a idea and develop it we didn't have a script written in time which means that parts of the performance was improvised ans people didn't know when to talk, this is bad because it means the audience cant hear what everyone is saying and could miss an important part of the performance. Another weakness in my opinion is that it could have had more movement involved as I feel because we didn't fully know what to do we weren't that confident in what we had to do and we second guessing ourselves and it made the piece quite static, this is bad because it means the audience could lose interest in the scene.

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Dennis Severs House in the round theatre

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Dennis Severs House in the round theatre

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Dennis Severs house is where you walk around a house and each room is different and has been left exactly how the people left and you have to try and get a story from it, some people got a lot from walking around it and others didn't see it. When we were put in to our different groups (Tom W, Luke, Chloe, Louise, Cam) and we all got given a piece of paper and we had to write down things that we got from walking around the house. We wrote down things like, different classes, different smells. We then had to come up with an idea that has a connection to Dennis' house, we decided to do Jack the Ripper because it was the same time period, we then researched about it, the girls all researched a victim who they wanted to portray and the guys all researched a suspect from those victims and picked which of the three we are going to use. I decided to choose the first known victim Mary Nicholls. After looking in to Jack the Ripper we looked at how he only pick prostitutes and how he killed them all the same. This gave us an idea to create a scene of what kind of childhood he had to have caused him to be how he is, we all thought that he may have been abused himself or that his mum was a prostitute and he was neglected.  When it came to devising the actual piece we found it difficult with using in the round style but we tried to block a beginning scene and then hoped that everything would just come naturally. We found a poem to read out and decided to stage it with everyone stand in between chairs to try make it immersive for the audience. We then changed it to the guys standing in between the chairs and the girls standing in a circle facing outwards which wasn't a bad idea but it wasn't attention grabbing enough for a beginning scene. Because we found it so hard to devise the Jack the ripper piece because we couldn't figure out any ideas on how to make it interesting, we decided it wasn't working and to change the idea so we then make a ideas cauldron and wrote down different things that came to our head, we started to think of ideas that link to Dennis Severs and we then came up with an idea of us breaking in to the house, we then picked what type of characters we could all have, we had Luke who was the over-thinker about everything, Louise who smart and loves being a detective, Tom as the security guard who dies, Chloe as the responsible one, me who just wants to leave but pretends to not care and Cam who is the mean one in the group to everyone and cares about nothing. Having an idea of our characters helped us devise because we first did improv and just react with how our characters would react. With this idea we decided to hide in the audience to make it more engaging for the audience. After doing run throughs we decided that it was not that well structured so we decided to change it to be a more jokey and not as serious by having the whole thing a prank on Cams character and have people go missing during the scene and then to have Tom in the group with us instead of a security guard jumps out and scares Cam who then accidently stabs him. This idea was so much better because we focused more on what we were doing rather than doing it in the round which is why I think we struggled so much at first. The ideas I contributed to the group was to when we decided to change from having people dying to go missing that it should all be one big prank on Cam since his character is mean to all of us it would give us an objective to prank him and get back at him. I also contributed by writing ideas down on paper when we were struggling to try and get a little idea and develop it in to more, to get more people motivated as at some points when we were struggling the focus was gone. My strengths in this devising piece was that I was trying to help get people focused and motivated by coming up with different ideas hoping that one of them stands out to everyone for us to then try and develop it. My weaknesses was that at some points I did lose concentration from everyone else losing focus which meant that none of us was coming up with ideas to start devising, if we were to do this all again I would not think about the way we are staging the piece and just devise the scene