We began this lesson with the addition of a new member to our Double PA class, Rob! We decided to quickly get Rob up to speed by presenting to him what he had already done; we showed him the opening scene. He was very satisfied with this scene and we agreed to work his character in at a later stage.
After informing Rob about our stimuli and showing him part of what we had already, we had decided to work on the new scenes. Last lesson, we decided that every character were to have a backstory but after much discussion we agreed that every character having a backstory would make our piece very long and boring so we've decided to only stick to two, Lorna's child soldier backstory and Rhiannon's "falling in love" backstory, with perhaps another if needed.
We next, continued with Rhiannon's backstory where we left it, however we've tweaked it slightly. Between Rhiannon being betrayed by her new-found soulmate and being kidnapped by Charlie (the slave master), we've added a short physical theatre piece. When James leads Rhiannon off of the tube, they have their little dance then they sit down and Rhiannon monologues about how her new Russian boyfriend, Vladimir (James), is taking her on holiday to visit his family in Russia. As they stand and turn from their travel, he backs away and joins the rest of us in formation, his gang. We follow James' lead as we step forward, slowly and powerfully in an attempt to intimidate Rhiannon. As we move towards her she becomes confused but then fearful after realising she put her trust in the hands of the wrong man. Her movements in this physical theatre piece are fast and frantic (ignore the Frantic Assembly pun), completely contrasting our movement to show the sudden change of relationship between Vladimir and Veronica.
As Rhiannon faced a different side of the group, the member of the group whom is closest would then be the leader of all the groups movements. In this fragment of our entire piece we included a lot of gestures and facial expressions to demonstrate the power the group had over Veronica and we even performed a 3 identical lifts too! This lift showed Veronica's desperation to be with Vladimir as he was the only person in the biggest country in the world whom she knew, yet she still wanted to reach for him. After this physical feature part, Veronica gets sold just as she did before.
We had also discussed ideas for the child soldier scene too this lesson. We had decided that Rob should be a child soldier alongside Lorna too as they both had quite young faces, they were short and they were talented at playing children. Lots of ideas were brought up in this segment of the lesson including the backing music (Toy Soldiers by Martika), the realisation of war not being a game and how ill prepared and independent child soldiers must be.
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