Double - Storytelling - Blog 11 (Snow Queen) - 25/11/15

Today in Double, we continued devising the first part of The Snow Queen. We first ran through what we had initially from last lesson so we knew where to take off from. What we already had went a little like this:

• Start in a circle, all facing in, right arm across the shoulder of the person on our right. Order in circle went: Lewis, Rhiannon, Ollie, Rob, Charlie, James.
• On, "Now let us begin," we all turn out over our right shoulder, we space around the room all facing different directions.
• On, "Reflected," we turn 180 degrees, on, "Poor," and "Mean," we make small jagged contractions to portray these adjectives and show the power of the mirror.
• On, "Magnified," we make an exaggerated jagged action; this links with the word magnified.

This lesson we had a great deal more devised. This is what we devised:

Formation A

Formation B

• On, "In this mirror," we all walk to the front in a line, the order goes: Lewis, James, Rhiannon, Lorna, Ollie, Charlie, Rob.
• On, "their faces," pick up mask, and on, "distorted," we put the masks on. On, "recognised," we all turn 180 degrees. After this, we all walk to centre stage and stand in formation (formation A).
• On, "magnified," we all reach out; long, slow and dynamically.
• On, "That's glorious fun!" we speak this in communal voice and we walk back into a straight line at he front; the order goes: James, Lewis, Rob, Lorna, Rhiannon, Charlie, Ollie.
• On, "If a good thought," we perform a hand movement with our left hand from right to left in cannon from Charlie to Lewis, on, "then grin," James expresses a grin on his face with his hands (not with his actual face obviously because of the mask).
• After this we arrange ourselves in a 232 formation (formation B). On, "how the world really looked," Rhiannon and James split away, as do Lorna and Rob. On, "They ran about," Ollie and Lewis lift Charlie from underneath the arms forward and backwards while Charlie runs in mid air.
• On, "So then they thought," Lewis, Ollie, Rob and Lorna lift Charlie as Rhiannon and James get down low on their knees on the floor. Lewis and Ollie take Charlie's arms, Rob takes his legs, and Lorna takes his thighs and butt. Rhiannon and James then swap sides and be ready to catch Charlie.
• On, "that it flew out," we drop Charlie but catch him lower; we then lower him down.
• On, "dashed in a hundred million and more pieces," we all (except Charlie of course) scatter across the floor to represent the "million and more pieces."

This is all we have so far but next lesson we will finish this scene off then move onto Scene 2.