Chair Duets is one of Frantic Assembly’s simple and accessible devising exercises used to create new material.

Our ambition is that we continue to learn and remain committed to making brave and bold theatre. At times it is physically dynamic and brutal. At others it's proudly tender and fragile.

Frantic Assembly has always been about more than the work on the stage. It is about the ethos of collaboration, of empowerment, of that constant desire to improve. It is about telling stories in a voice we don't always hear and about finding talent in places we don't always look.

In unit, 3, 4 and 5 we created a devising piece called judgement. We put chair duets in the piece inspired by Frantic Assembly. Thought-out the process of the unit we got to look at different mental health issues such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. 

We research about all the different meant health in the world and there are so many that people don't know anything about. 

For a while we only research until we started to write our monologues. I did write 3 but we didn't use any of the in the piece as they were a bit dark and scary. I got given Chaelsea monologue to perform. Chaelsea and I sat down together and started to cut the script down and slowly built it up to suit our standards. 

The skills I bought it the performance was dancing in two chair duets a performing a monologue about depression, I also gave some ideas to the piece to make it better for the performance. To create the piece we need to sit down all together and discuss what we thin k would work and what wouldn't really work for the judgement piece. 

 

I feel like that the performance went really well because everyone put loads of energy into the piece and we was all engaged to the performance. I feel like I done okay for the piece but I feel like that I could of have more stage presents in the performance but overall the judgement piece went amazing and everyone one did the best they could of done.