Week 3 (Revised)

This week began with panic stations ahoy, realising that we did not have anywhere near enough for the final piece. From this realisation we decided to instead of creating new scenes revise what we had done and add to that.

The scenes we had were the blocks scene, we had gotten from "I am the real Christina" to the falling of Dan off of the blocks, we realised doing the fall from the side was a bad idea because it was blocking us all from being seen by the audience making the action pointless. Instead we changed it to be facing the audience. As a group we decided to have Dan fall from the height of two blocks this proved to be a wrong decision because we weren't able to catch Dan from the height with the weight that he is, instead after the trial and error we decided to have Dan fall from the height of just one block making it much easier for us and it made the transition much smoother. Having dan fall from the height of one block and then for the scene to go into a blackout meant it was quite a dramatic scene as it symbolises Christina succumbing to the real world. In the blocks scene we also made a few tweaks such as the numbers on the invisible phone, we made the rule of doing it three times to keep us all in unison. We also introduced using clicking as it made the scene more tense but also meant we could all keep in time.

We decided to look at how comments can effect people, we decided to have Christina do a monologue about herself and her thoughts on what people think and how she views herself. We in a line all joining hands come around her and join together in a circle with her in the centre. In turns we said both positive and negative comments trying to be Christina's inner thoughts, things such as "you are strong" and "what are you doing here?". After this scene we used the ideas of mirrors, we also decided that the mirrors scene needed to have some music so we decided to use a live piano with myself playing, we used the beginning chords to the nutcracker sugar plum fairy piece, we used varying tempo's of the music speeding the piece up toward the climax of the piece when the group smother Christina with themselves. The mirrors scene came from the idea of Christina confronting herself, we used each of the members of our team to mirror Christina's actions to show how Christina is confronting her inner demons, we used lifts such as the "paper clip" to add to the atmosphere of her fighting the inner demons.

The newest scene that we have in our devised piece is the hospital scene, we came to this by looking at Anna Christina Olson's illness and thought that putting a hospital in the play would bring tension to the piece. In this scene we have Christina's parents sat in a waiting room and are a chair apart as they are separated there is a gap that Christina walks through, Dan who is playing the doctor comes out and explains to the parents that Christina is in a Coma and that she won't wake up, to add to this we added the beep of a life support machine to keep the tense atmosphere of the scene up. We then go into a fight between Christina's mother and father and an idea of the group was that we could use lifts and movement to symbolise the hostile relationship that transpires between them. In the next scene we decided to revise the idea of being on a train but instead put it as waiting for a bus and all of us sat around in our own mannerisms trying again to be a piece of Christina. Christina goes around asking people where she is and they all respond in the mannerism they are taking on, such as Rae is the slightly insane part of her mind and pulls her down and try's to warn her, the sensible part of Christina played by Connor who talks to the audience asking "why doesn't she know where she is" they all also as Christina goes round call themselves Christina as they feel that they are.

The Group as a whole has a mixed dynamic we are all very different but very similar people. A lot of us are very desperate to have our ideas heard and in this some people can seem quite pushy with their ideas, others who have their ideas are too shy to bring their ideas across and would rather just let the others come up with the ideas and sit back and watch. This causes the group to gel a lot less, another reason for this is because a few people in the group can be quite negative about what we do, when positivity is really needed because the negativity brought the group down. The team as a whole got down to buisness when it was really needed but still didn't really get a long, this could have been because we had newcomers to the group who had joined the course late but even so the group should have been able to cope. I felt it was because some people might have thought with more people their ideas would be less heard or that they would have less stage time which isn't the case. We had some difficult questions to ask when it got down to working with eachother because some of the group needed to be told to just get on and get along with their classmates when times were tough. I felt that there were two key decision makers they were Rae and Connor because they wanted to get on with it and so went with the most prominent ideas but didn't necessarily look to all the possible options this was partially because of a lack of time.

This week was a tough week because we knew we needed to work very hard to try and achieve more of our devised piece and because of this we all got quite testy at times and had quite a few arguments, which were all in the end resolved. This made it an interesting week but when we got to difficult times we took inspirations from one of the devising company's and asked difficult questions, these sometimes led to no answers but from taking some of our original ideas we revised those ideas and worked out more scenes.

Week 2 (Revised)

This week the group began by revisiting some of our less developed ideas I felt that this was a good notion because we needed to develop more scenes for our devised piece. Taking the ideas we had accumulated before, we sat down and discussed which scenes we should and could use we set them out on the white board and went from there. These scenes were:

Scene 1

Christina is sat in a chair contemplating over her life and that it was her fault her family died in the fire. Beside her are her inner demons, who as she tries to run from in order to escape her past. We did this scene because we felt it would touch on what was going on inside christina's head and would give the audience an understanding of what is going on too.

Scene 2

In this scene Christina is reviewing a memory of her family eating christmas dinner, she is noting all the small but significant details of the moment, such as who's chair is who's, the arguments that went on. This scene came to light because we wanted a scene of Christina's past to come to light. This was our way of trying to show a contrast of what Christina's life was like compared to how it is now and we wanted the difference to make the audience feel a different way towards Christina.

Scene 3

We have Christina crawling on the floor and struggling to move not only that but we have people becoming moving obstacles that are blocking her path making it even more difficult, this is to symbolise Christina overcoming her struggles. We used this scene to try and put across the struggle that Christina went through and also to use a different style of theatre to bring that over to the audience to get them to sympathise with her and her situation.

Scene 4

Christina is pushed around and held back by her inner demons again, they flip a chair over her and bring her back to where she started. The main part of this scene is the phrase T-R-A-P we use this on the shirts everyone is wearing with everyone having one letter on their shirt. We wanted to use this scene to have an underlying message relayed to the audience of “are we trapped ?”. The idea was to have the audience question their own rights of freedom and are they trapped themselves ?

Scene 5

The train ride- she meets new people, we wanted this to be an insight as to how christina saw new people having been kept from anyone other than her family. We were using ideas such as the chairs and invisible phone key pad, we decided part way through to change the chairs for stage blocks. This idea tried to show how vulnerable Christina is and how inexperienced she is of the real world, we tried to show this in some interesting ways such as with the blocks and the phone key pad.

Sequence

At the end of writing out the scenes we decided to combine some scenes and the sequence we ended up with was - (2-1+4-3-5).

We decided as a group to split into two and each work on separate scenes to speed up the process of making scenes. The scene I worked on was the train scene, we used this as a basis and worked on from there. To update the scene we used blocks instead of chairs and decided not to make it a train but instead a room. We also decided that having the blocks in one row was not making the best use of the stage space, we tried many combinations of the blocks first being the four in a row, we then staggered the blocks two in front two in back alternating, the next was having them in a plus shape but leaving the centre without a block, although this made us look more equal due to height differences it still didn't have the right feel to it, so we put another block on top of the front one. This idea meant that we could use our "I am the real Christina!" idea. We came to these ideas by running through all the ideas that everyone were having even the most stupid. Since we had split into two groups it meant there were few of us to come up with ideas, so we sat in the chairs in line like the train scene and and tried to come up with ideas one by one in a line. We were also sort of becoming part of our set we felt more immersed in the ideas and they came to us reasonably quickly with a few on each side.

To use the "I am the real Christina!" idea we initially used four of us three on the singular blocks and one behind the double stacked blocks, this was to be the hidden Christina, her real self ? We kept the hidden Christina hidden so that she could come up when we felt Christina would object to what was being said about her life. The group and myself felt that the piece needed more movement, to do this we had Christina in the middle move she crawls over the top and jumps down between the two new additions to the piece we then did a hand signal to which we said "I am the real Christina!" we then used another old idea which was the phone key pad and turning our heads to the numbers we decided on and did it as a chorus. We then decided to do a lift but problems arose when we found that Dan falling off the blocks into a group cradle, wasn't as elegant as the rest of the piece.

This was where we ended our week on having found many problems and some solutions, not finding solutions to all our problems or hiccups was a difficult note to end on but it gave us a lot to think about for our next week of devising theatre exploration.

Week 1 (Revised)

This week we began by being given our stimulus, this stimulus was a painting by Andrew Wyeth called Christina's World. We started by writing down any thoughts or ideas that came to us, at this point we had no knowledge of what the painting was actually about or its history. From not being able to know what the past history of the piece was we could make our own assumptions as to what was going on in the painting. The ideas of War, Longing, Helplessness and Loss came to mind. After making my own deductions from the piece we were told all about the painting, finding out that the painting was about a woman called Anna Christina Olson. Anna had polio and subsequently couldn't walk and had to crawl everywhere; the artist used to watch her and was fascinated by her struggle and so painted her. My first responses to the painting were of the greeny yellow colour scheme in the painting, I felt that it gave a spring time illusion to the painting or a new morning arriving with the golden colour of the sun reflecting off of the grass. I also thought that because of the style of the dress on the girl the era was the 1940’s and in the background I could see a metal fence and assumed it might be a POW camp from my thoughts of it being in the 1940’s. After we were told what the paintings history was about I found that my ideas were quite similar to the paintings history such as the time period, the area in which it was set though had me completley wrong I thought from the look it was somewhere within europe probably either England of Germany, when in a matter of fact it was set in Cushing, Maine in America.

Put into groups we sat as a body and discussed all of our ideas bringing what we could to the table. My own personal ideas being thoughts of a woman who was looking toward a lover in one of the windows of the house, other ideas were that it was a concentration camp and she was one of the family of a warden a bit like the boy in the striped pyjamas. I thought this because of the wire fence in the background, I also felt it looked like the beginning scene in beauty and the beast when belle is looking to a bigger and brighter future.

From these ideas we began to work as a group to mix these thoughts into a selection of main ideas that we could begin to use to create our devised piece. First ideas put together were from a mix of us all who thought of Christina being an orphan. Connor thought of her being an orphan because of a tragic fire, I thought that this was a different idea and was a good way to look into another way of seeing what Christina was feeling. From this we all found the idea of Christina being haunted by her inner demons "the fire" and trying to escape from the thought that she was the one to actually kill her family.

We began to stage this idea of Christina escaping from "the fire" we sat Christina in a chair on her own to be alone with her thoughts, on either side of Christina (Imogen) we had the fire holding her back and letting her burn (Connor and Alicia). In the background we had (Rae, Dan, Yaz and Bradley) being the family asking her why she didn't help them and why should she be there instead of them. We began this by having the actors on the stage and looking at Christina struggling, but soon realised that putting the actors backstage and only being able to hear their voices made it seem much more real that their voices are in Christina's mind. We finished with Christina screaming, but realised it was too cliché and was done too often. Instead we ended with just Christina breaking down in silence as we felt it was a more effective way to capture the audience. We decided that next we would work on another idea to keep ourselves working on different concepts and to explore different ways that our devised piece could go. We used an idea of Rae's to put the character back to a good time in her life with her family at Christmas dinner, the twist is that we have the later Christina narrating the story when the characters are frozen. We found this difficult to work with because we weren't quite sure how to go about Christina looking back on her past. We came up with a short scene before the end of our session that day and were pleased with what we had accomplished.

In this first week working as a group, I found that being in a smaller group and working together somewhat challenging. This was because although we know each other reasonably well we still didn't know how each other put their ideas or thoughts across. Although this was challenging and for each of us to find our own voices, when we weren't quite sure how to entirely handle each other made things seem a little impossible, we soon found our own way to hear each other out. Our way of working together was to sit in a circle so that we all felt equal and at ease, this made bringing ideas to the table a lot easier. At times the group would become unfocused being distracted by something that would come up, but as soon as we realised we were detracting from working on our devised piece we got back on track.

In short we took a range of ideas that all of us had come up with from our own imagination and worked as a team to get every ones ideas heard, having looked at the stimulus. We responded by sharing all the ideas we had accumulated and chose a select few to have a go with. Straight away we experimented with these ideas by putting together a piece of work to begin a fragment of our devised theatre.

Evaluation

The Piece we performed was called “The Real Christina” it was a piece that we devised ourselves from a stimulus selected by our tutor. The Piece had good timing for the majority of the performance but on some occasions we would forget where we were supposed to be although we covered it up quite well. The pace of the piece was qutie fast going with it beginning with a quite violent fight scene and in a hospital of all places, changing from scene to scene was much harder that we had expected as moving the blocks from place to place was quite difficult considering the weight of them cause some of us to be unable to carry them off without another person helping and we took a much longer black out that we should have. The style of the piece was contemporary because we used lots of things such as physical theatre to make the performance more interesting but that brought the realism away from it. The subject of the Piece was of struggle and freedom we wanted to explore the two together and find through the piece how they interlinked and to ask the difficult question of are we free ?. I felt we achieved our aim of “The audience to come out with them question their-self and who they really are, are we told to be who we are ? have other people made us what we are ? these are the type of questions i want the audience to walk away and ask them self” because in our reviews we had a lot of people feeling like they were walking away with a lot to think about. The characterisation of each character went well because we were using each person to potray each side of Christina to the audience and I felt we got each of these across. The vocals went well but we could have been far more clear in what we were saying as in the reviews many people found it hard to understand what we were saying at points in the piece. We used a lot of gesture and movement to bring across what we were aiming to. We did this by using a lot of physical theatre to bring the movement over to the audience. The team worked well and before we started we did our special secret handshake for good luck and this helped the team focus for the performance when things were going a little ary we supported eachother and made sure we all had a good time. 

Week 4 (14th - 20th)

This week began our final preparations for our devised piece it was in a nutshell quite stressful and there were many arguments. We started by running through what we already had come up with and counted how many scenes we had and how much time wise of a production we had. We started on the finale which we still had to set, we knew as a group from the beginning we wanted it to finish with us spelling something out on our shirts. From our other scene when Alicia is doing her monologue we had her saying "I am strong, I am powerful, I am independent and I am free" we took the last line as we found it the most haunting of the phrases. On our shirts we had I am free written over all our shirts  so that when we came together that was what we spelled out and after the final monologue by Shelby we turned around to spell "Am I free ?" we did this to ask the audience themselves weather we are free or weather we are trapped by our own minds and by society's ideals.

A lot of this week consisted of arguments mostly about the final adjustments, some of this was because we were all tired and stressed and the rest were because we all had conflicting ideas as to how some of the scenes should end. We found that going from Alicia's monologue straight into the "I am the real Christina" scene was missing something and by trying to figure this out we argued and eventually gave up and ended up having a bit of fun and a much needed rest as we were all tired and a bit over excited. While we were having a bit of fun the boys were playing between the curtains and made their bodies disappear a bit like harry potter and the invisibility cloak and suddenly something clicked and we worked our argument and the disappearing bodies to create a new scene which was the heads scene. The heads scene consisted of everyone in the group except for myself because I was hiding behind the block for the next scene, everyone is between the curtains at different points and as the lights go on everyone appears from the curtains much to the audience's surprise. After the heads appear the heads go into an argument over which one of them is christina un till the sound rises to a climax and they all stop and disappear.

For the final scene we felt that there wasn't much to it and that it needed a boost so we added something new to it. Shelby and Alicia came up with a scene where we all said "what about me " or something like that to question the audience again as to what our position is as to who we are. Rae and myself were in the lighting box and were required to operate and run the lighting box for the other group's performance of BOX which going in we thought would be an easy feat, how wrong we were, first of all we had to figure out how to use the lighting equipment which wasn't too hard, then we had to figure out how to follow the lighting instructions which proved much more difficult and trying to relay that through two people makes that even harder as you both have tow ideas of what should be done. Figuring out when to change the lights during the rehearsal performance was rather difficult because we couldn't quite read the paper that had the cues on it, which meant we had to half guess when to turn the lights. During the full run through Rae and I almost had a full on fight when we couldn't figure out at which point to change the lights because we were slightly panicking about what to do, but as soon as things sorted themselves out we found ourselves quite happy, so happy that we high fived and realised that we had made a noise and silently laughed.

I found that this week really made us focus on our relationships as a group because we were all going through a tough experience as a team and it brought blood sweat and tears to the tables. We all argued and we all had our differences but this week as a whole brought us together like never before because it was our first performance at college and emotions were all running high and everyone wanted to give their all and I felt that everyone did give their all but were all slowly getting worn out and tired but what I admired about our group is that everyone pulled through and didn't give up. So overall this week was tough but we all managed to live up to our own expectations and find new ways of making our performance more creative and more emotional, and believe me it wasn't easy but we did it !

Week 3 (Oct 7th-13th)

This week began with panic stations ahoy, realising that we did not have anywhere near enough for the final piece. From this realisation we decided to instead of creating new scenes revise what we had done and add to that.

The scenes we had were the blocks scene, we had gotten from "I am the real Christina" to the falling of Dan off of the blocks, we realised doing the fall from the side was a bad idea because it was blocking us all from being seen by the audience making the action pointless. Instead we changed it to be facing the audience. As a group we decided to have Dan fall from the height of two blocks this proved to be a wrong decision because we weren't able to catch Dan from the height with the weight that he is, instead after the trial and error we decided to have Dan fall from the height of just one block making it much easier for us and it made the transition much smoother. Having dan fall from the height of one block and then for the scene to go into a blackout meant it was quite a dramatic scene as it symbolises Christina succumbing to the real world. In the blocks scene we also made a few tweaks such as the numbers on the invisible phone, we made the rule of doing it three times to keep us all in unison. We also introduced using clicking as it made the scene more tense but also meant we could all keep in time.

We decided to look at how comments can effect people, we decided to have Christina do a monologue about herself and her thoughts on what people think and how she views herself. We in a line all joining hands come around her and join together in a circle with her in the centre. In turns we said both positive and negative comments trying to be Christina's inner thoughts, things such as "you are strong" and "what are you doing here?". After this scene we used the ideas of mirrors, we also decided that the mirrors scene needed to have some music so we decided to use a live piano with myself playing, we used the beginning chords to the nutcracker sugar plum fairy piece, we used varying tempo's of the music speeding the piece up toward the climax of the piece when the group smother Christina with themselves. The mirrors scene came from the idea of Christina confronting herself, we used each of the members of our team to mirror Christina's actions to show how Christina is confronting her inner demons, we used lifts such as the "paper clip" to add to the atmosphere of her fighting the inner demons.

The newest scene that we have in our devised piece is the hospital scene, in this scene we have Christina's parents sat in a waiting room and are a chair apart as they are separated there is a gap that Christina walks through, Dan who is playing the doctor comes out and explains to the parents that Christina is in a Coma and that she won't wake up, to add to this we added the beep of a life support machine to keep the tense atmosphere of the scene up. We then go into a fight between Christina's mother and father that in which we used lifts and movement to symbolise the hostile relationship that transpires between them. In the next scene we decided to revise the idea of being on a train but instead put it as waiting for a bus and all of us sat around in our own mannerisms trying again to be a piece of Christina. Christina goes around asking people where she is and they all respond in the mannerism they are taking on, such as Rae is the slightly insane part of her mind and pulls her down and try's to warn her, the sensible part of Christina played by Connor who talks to the audience asking "why doesn't she know where she is" they all also as Christina goes round call themselves Christina as they feel that they are.

This week was a tough week because we knew we needed to work very hard to try and achieve more of our devised piece and because of this we all got quite testy at times and had quite a few arguments, which were all in the end resolved. This made it an interesting week but when we got to difficult times we took inspirations from one of the devising company's and asked difficult questions, these sometimes led to no answers but from taking some of our original ideas we revised those ideas and worked out more scenes.

Week 2 (Oct 30th-6th)

This week the group began by revisiting some of our less developed ideas I felt that this was a good notion because we needed to develop more scenes for our devised piece. Taking the ideas we had accumulated before, we sat down and discussed which scenes we should and could use we set them out on the white board and went from there. These scenes were:

Scene 1
Christina is sat in a chair contemplating over her life and that it was her fault her family died in the fire. Beside her are her inner demons, who as she tries to run from in order to escape her past.

Scene 2
In this scene Christina is reviewing a memory of her family eating christmas dinner, she is noting all the small but significant details of the moment, such as who's chair is who's, the arguments that went on.

Scene 3
We have Christina crawling on the floor and struggling to move not only that but we have people becoming moving obstacles that are blocking her path making it even more difficult, this is to symbolise Christina overcoming her struggles.

Scene 4
Christina is pushed around and held back by her inner demons again, they flip a chair over her and bring her back to where she started. The main part of this scene is the phrase T-R-A-P we use this on the shirts everyone is wearing with everyone having one letter on their shirt.

Scene 5
The train ride- she meets new people, we wanted this to be an insight as to how christina saw new people having been kept from anyone other than her family. We were using ideas such as the chairs and invisible phone key pad, we decided part way through to change the chairs for stage blocks.

Sequence
At the end of writing out the scenes we decided to combine some scenes and the sequence we ended up with was - (2-1+4-3-5).

We decided as a group to split into two and each work on separate scenes to speed up the process of making scenes. The scene I worked on was the train scene, we used this as a basis and worked on from there. To update the scene we used blocks instead of chairs and decided not to make it a train  but instead a room. We also decided that having the blocks in one row was not making the best use of the stage space, we tried many combinations of the blocks first being the four in a row, we then staggered the blocks two in front two in back alternating, the next was having them in a plus shape but leaving the centre without a block, although this made us look more equal due to height differences it still didn't have the right feel to it, so we put another block on top of the front one. This idea meant that we could use our "I am the real Christina!" idea.

To use the "I am the real Christina!" idea we initially used four of us three on the singular blocks and one behind the double stacked blocks, this was to be the hidden Christina, her real self ? We kept the hidden Christina hidden so that she could come up when we felt Christina would object to what was being said about her life. The group and myself felt that the piece needed more movement, to do this we had Christina in the middle move she crawls over the top and jumps down between the two new additions to the piece we then did a hand signal to which we said "I am the real Christina!" we then used another old idea which was the phone key pad and turning our heads to the numbers we decided on and did it as a chorus. We then decided to do a lift but problems arose when we found that Dan falling off the blocks into a group cradle, wasn't as elegant as the rest of the piece.

This was where we ended our week on having found many problems and some solutions, not finding solutions to all our problems or hiccups was a difficult note to end on but it gave us a lot to think about for our next week of devising theatre exploration.

Week 1 (Sept 23rd-29th)

This week we began by being given our stimulus, this stimulus was a painting by Andrew Wyeth called Christina's World. We started by writing down any thoughts or ideas that came to us, at this point we had no knowledge of what the painting was actually about or it's history. From not being able to know what the past history of the piece was we could make our own assumptions as to what was going on in the painting, the ideas of War, Longing, Helplessness and Loss came to mind. After making my own deductions from the piece we were told all about the painting finding out that the painting was about a woman called Anna Christina Olson, she had polio and subsequently couldn't walk and had to crawl everywhere, the artist used to watch her and was fascinated by her struggle and so painted her.

Put into groups we sat as a body and discussed all of our ideas bringing what we could to the table. My own personal ideas being thoughts of a woman who was looking toward a lover in one of the windows of the house, other ideas were that it was a concentration camp and she was one of the family of a warden a bit like the boy in the striped pyjamas, i thought this because of the wire fence in the background i also felt it looked like the beginning scene in beauty and the beast when belle is looking to a bigger and brighter future.

From these ideas we began to work as a group to mix these thoughts into a selection of main ideas we could begin to use to create our devised piece. First ideas put together were from a mix of us all who thought of Christina being an orphan, Connor thought of her being an orphan because of a tragic fire,i thought that this was a different idea and was a good way to look into another way of seeing what Christina was feeling, from this we all found the idea of Christina being haunted by her inner demons "the fire" and trying to escape from the thought that she was the one to actually kill her family.

We began to stage this idea of Christina escaping from "the fire" we sat Christina in a chair on her own to be alone with her thoughts, on either side of Christina (Imogen) we had the fire holding her back and letting her burn (Connor and Alicia) in the background we had (Rae, Dan, Yaz and Bradley) being the family asking her why she didn't help them and why should she be there instead of them. We began this by having the actors on the stage and looking at Christina struggling, but soon realised that putting the actors backstage and only being able to hear their voices made it seem much more real that their voices are in Christina's mind. We finished with Christina screaming, but realised it was too cliche and was done too often, instead we ended with just Christina breaking down in silence as we felt it was a more effective way to capture the audience. We decided that next we would work on another idea to keep ourselves working on different concepts and to explore different ways that our devised piece could go. We used an idea of Rae's to put the character back to a good time in her life with her family at christmas dinner, the twist is that we have the later Christina narrating the story when the characters are frozen, we found this difficult to work with because we weren't quite sure how to go about Christina looking back on her past. We came up with a short scene before the end of our session that day and were pleased with what we had accomplished.

In this first week working as a group, i found that being in a smaller group and working together somewhat challenging, because although we know each other reasonably well we still didn't know how each other put their ideas or thoughts across. Although this was challenging and for each of us to find our own voices when we weren't quite sure how to entirely handle each other made things seem a little impossible, we soon found our own way to hear each other out. Our way of working together was to sit in a circle so that we all felt equal and at ease, this made bringing ideas to the table a lot easier. At times the group would become unfocused being distracted by something that would come up, but as soon as we realised we were detracting from working on our devised piece we got back on track.

In short we took a range of ideas that all of us had come up with from our own imagination and worked as a team to get every ones ideas heard, having looked at the stimulus. We responded by sharing all the ideas we had accumulated and chose a select few to have a go with. Straight away we experimented with these ideas by putting together a piece of work to begin a fragment of our devised theatre.