Just something me and my friend kim performed ages ago!!!

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TARGETING AUDIENCE!

Targeting the audience! 

Deciding on a specific audience is a difficult task. However the decision has now been made to target an intellectual audience, one who will challenge the ideas performed to them and question the reasoning for our actions and appreciate the fine detail which is tied in within the play.  

The Pinter Pause

The Beautiful Creation Which is The Pinter Pause! 

"During the 1960s, Pinter became notorious–for his trademark: 'The Pinter pause. Actors and directors often find Pinter's "pauses and silences" to be daunting elements of performing his plays, leading to much discussion of them in theatrical and dramatic criticism,. Actors who have worked with Pinter in rehearsals have "reported that he regretted ever starting to write 'Pause' as a stage direction. It often lead to portentous overacting. A pause in Pinter is as important as a line. They are all there for a reason. Three dots is a hesitation, a pause is a fairly mundane crisis and a silence is some sort of crisis.

The use of screens in drama 

Plays have a history of using visual trickery to obscure specific identities while presenting action. Ancient Greek actors wore masks and voluminous robes, and Jacobian theatre's often elaborate costuming and stage design elevated the drama's spectacle by occluding the performers. Technology has changed over the centuries, but the techniques remain similar. The best illusions spring from the simplest ideas. On the modern stage, silhouette screens add both mystery and visual appeal. In essence, this technique uses a screen lit from behind. Whatever appears between the light and screen is rendered visible to the audience as pure shadow.

Wednesday 26th September

Physical Theatre

We have now decided to add physical theatre into our performance. Physical theatre is when you tell a story using gesture and mime.

The means of expression seem to be more physical rather than textual, often augmented by musical elements. Many of these various Physical Theatre traditions share a collaborative devising approach to theatrical development and creation; various groups, such as DV8, Frantic Assemly, Forced Entertainment and the Double Edge Theatre all use differing but nonetheless devising-based processes.

Added extras

After looking over our script we have also looked at the finer details to perfecting our piece. At the start we have a long exagerated pause this creates tension and keeps the audience on the edge of there seats.

Second Draft Scene Plan

Have you got the time please?

Have you got the time please?

Yes it 3.30pm

Exactly?

3.33pm to be precise

Thank you

Your welcome, I really like your ring

My ‘ex’ gave me it, (throws ring on the floor) that sick twisted pathetic little man.

Oh sorry I didnt mean to bring that up

He walks around like he is Gods gift to women, he smokes he drinks he cheats and lies.

I bet your really fed up, if i was you I would have killed him by now.

Imagine the long parade to the grave yard, the funeral on Tuesday the 13^th of may.

Funerals are quiet with pretty flowers and Oh, what gorgeous boxes they pack them away in.

Then as we move inside the church his family are crying and wailing. what happiness this brings to me.

The grandaughter all innocent to her familys tainted past.

I’m wearing my bruises with pride, I took the blows to my face and my body and anywhere else he could get his hands on.

Then you would smile as his family take a pause of respect and you let out a small chuckle. (Lauren chuckle)

Now for the burial

They lower his box to the ground you revel in the silence that you’ve finally achieved. Oh how sweet that silence is

(Ashes to ashes. dust to dust ... etc)

How did you achieve the silence, rat poison? Smother? Knife in the back? A gunshot to the head? A slow death? Fast death? Easy death? Planned death? Drowning? Burn him disfigure his face

GRAB MATTS FACE! Eye contact for planned time

Coffee shop

Both characters sit down

Matt - 2 coffees 1 white 1 black and a small portion of strawberry cheesecake,        Hi

Lauren -Hi

Matt - Coffee?

Lauren -Please

Matt- Good, do you own a pen?

Lauren - Yes

Matt -Good (Draws on napkin)

Lauren- The Plan?

Matt - Yes

Lauren - Okay

Pinter pause

Lauren -Do you love me ?

Matt- No

Lauren -Okay

Matt- Do you love me?

Lauren -No

Matt - Okay ... but your in love?

Lauren -With the shared love

Matt -Not with each other

Lauren - No

Matt -Never

Both- Agreed

Matt- Shhhhhhhhhh (coffees are brought over) Black?

Lauren- White

Matt - Cheescake?

Lauren –No

Matt- Oh (Licks knife)

Lauren- is this your first?

Matt- No

Lauren- Are you nervous?

Matt- No

Lauren- Oh

Matt- Is this your first

Lauren – Yes

Pinter pause

Matt- Method?

Lauren – Gas

Matt- to Costly ... Method

Lauren- Knife

Matt- To messy ... Method

Lauren- Gun shot

Matt- To loud ... Method

Lauren - Burn him

Matt – Done that ... Smother?

Lauren- Yes, with a pillow. Whilst he lay there at night

Matt- invite him for dinner, say you’d like to start again

Lauren- Ill serve fish

Matt- Turkey

Lauren- Lasagne

Matt- Oysters

Lauren- Ill serve oysters

Matt- Accompanied by a nice bottle of white

Lauren – Rosé

Matt- Red ... Red wine, Candle light, Music

Lauren- Justin Bieber haha he’s next

Matt- Sweet dreams - The Eurythmics

Lauren- Slower

Matt – Celine Dion – My Heart Will Go On

Lauren- Cheesy

Matt- Etta James (At Last Plays)

Devising our performance

Today Me and Matt rehearsed a few scenes we had created to see how well the worked together.
We then decided on our characters personalitys.

Male - Dominant, manipulative, twisted and powerful

Female- Easily lead, Hurt and looking for someone to talk to

By the end of the whole performance our Characters completely swap roles, the female becomes more powerful and twisted. The male falls in love with her and this is how the females manages to gain all her control!








First Draft!!!!

Set design

Stimuli

Hi, Matt and I are the only people within our drama class we used to be a cast of 9 .... now we are down to 2! :( but hey! were going to make the best of our year 13 alevel and here is the different stages we are going through to achieve an A .... A*

For our first piece!



This stimulus we have been givin is: Love.

Me and matt have interperted this in different ways. Firstly I reserched things I had seen on the news. The first thing that came up was ' The moors murders' a quote which Ian Brady had said really caught my eye "Everything I did was to impress her".

This line then made us think about a twisted love not for someone but for something they desire and share a love for.

The shared love then became of high focus. This shared love was not for any of the characters to experiance with eachother but for the same thing they loved which in our performance is 'Death' However each character is stiriving for something out of this. From the males point of view he is being able to control the women by manipulating her into killing her 'Ex'. The female is simply trying to get free from the control when what she does not realise that she is getting herself lost into a vicious cycle.