Today we continued on with the script of 1984 and went on to study what is reality and what is fantasy.
We continued on from where we were last time where O'Brien appears for the first time. For the section where Martin describes a café, we wanted to use our bodies and props to change the environment. We were going to simply move our chairs and sit in a café style seating arrangement but Charlie suggested we use a physical theatre technique which DV8 used in their "Can We Talk About This?" video. In this video, Ann Cryer stands on one leg, crosses it and squats down to make it look like she is seated; her fellow actor holds her body weight with one hand and keeps her balanced. We decided to try it out and it worked perfectly!
For when the lights go out, we all, whilst saying our lines, walk to hide behind the curtains. This meant when the lights come back up, it would only be left with Winston and O'Brien. This creates the illusion of what is real and what isn't.
After this, we gathered and discussed what is real and what isn't. There was discussion on who Julia was, whether she was in alliance with Winston or if she was an agent of Big Brother, and whether she truly betrayed Winston or if O'Brien made it up.
We then drew our attention to the idea of the beginning being a history lesson/book club and Host is some sort of leader and they're looking at the novel of 1984. This links to some of the lines at the beginning such as "I had a feeling while I was reading it," and "This is a text which..." This led onto the discussion of whether they're regular people of 1949 (when the novel was written) reading the novel of 1984 or whether they're people within the novel of 1984 who are reading Winston's novel.
Next lesson, we will continue to work through the script some more.
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