After Troy 29/04/16

Todays lesson we decided where we wanted After Troy to be set we all said it would be a good idea to have it in modern day in an abandoned underground station I think modern day is a good to have it set in because then the audience know what is going on and feel that they are apart of it. After we had a chat about where it was going to be and what sort of time we would have it in we started working on the first piece for After Troy the prologue which is physical theatre.

The prologue tells the audience what it was like back in the days and explains the difference between how the woman and the men were treated it also gives the audience some background and gives them the atmosphere of how scary some of it is.

We started with Kat, Hope and Lorna coming on looking like they were holding babies but it was a sheet on each of the drums the boys come in a take the sheet this shows that their children were murdered after we have all done the run we do a small movement with the sheet we all have a small routine showing that the boys don't give respect. We all do a small lift showing the woman getting treated horrible and gives the audience the idea that the men are mean and want the woman to suffer in pain.

After Troy 28/04/16

Todays lesson we had to find pictures this would help us make decisions on what we wanted After Troy to look like. We did this so we knew what our set was going to look like and it would help us when we start working on After Troy we know where it is set and how we should act. Katya, Rhiannon and I were in a group. Rhiannon came up with the idea of a parallel video game kind of universe and gave us the idea of Alice in Wonderland which brought up creative ideas that we could use within our performance. Katya came up with the idea of dystopian VS the utopian world. I came up with the idea of an abandoned house or a tube station I thought about the isolation and how sadistic that play would be. We created a move board which showed the interpretation of the plot. We also wanted to find some materials we could use in are piece but did not have lots of time.

Here are all of the pictures we found that we thought could work for our piece:

After Troy 26/04/16

Todays lesson we did some research we got split into two groups we had to research a play each which was complied together to create After Troy the plays that we had to research were Hecuba and Trojan Women here is some of research we found out on the internet:

Looking at all the information we found out I find it very confusing their are a lot of characters in both plays but they do link with After Troy I think we are going to do more research so we understand more about After Troy and then we can get the basic story line together so I know what goes on within the play.

After Troy 22/04/16

Todays lesson we tried a new play we did the government inspector this is a funny play, this is about members of the council and they are expecting an government inspector to come in and check what they are doing and see if they have any problems. I played actor 6 I found this scene very funny and enjoyable to perform because we all have to be fast paced and have lots of energy in the end of the scene we find out that a random person came in and we gave them lots of money to bribe them to give us a good report but in the end they get a phone call saying the government inspector was going to be late so we are shocked and confused because we thought that the random person was the inspector. I think all of us gave lots of energy and had great movements with are acting because we have to be fast with the scene we need to make sure we pronounce all our words clearly and make sure the audience can understand what we are saying we are going to have to work on reading the script carefully and making sure we pronounce all our lines so people understand what we are saying this will help improve after troy because they talk properly and talk in the time of geek.

After Troy 21/04/16

Today's lesson we were given another scene from after Troy. We were split into groups and each got a section from Troy which went in order of the scene I was in a group with Lorna and Kat our scene was about when Polyxena thinks she is going to married to the king but she is actually going to get killed. I had the same character as last time I was Talthybius who is the scribe who passes on messages to people. I find this character different to I am because he is very boring and always wants to go by the rules. Hecuba is the mum of Polyxena and Cassandra she is ill and in scene I tell her that her daughter is going to get killed because I am the messenger she is shocked by this and is always thinking about her song who is dead but she does not know that. My character was shocked and was feeling sorry for Polyxena because he knew that she was about to get slaughtered and did not know that the mum didn't know.

We staged it by having me standing up Lorna laying on chairs like she was on a bed and Kat standing and kneeling when talking to us both. We focused more on are voices and facial expressions next time we will need to look at movement to make sure we are doing all of them we are acting.

After Troy 19/04/16

Today we found out what we were going to be doing as our new unit which is after troy this is about the after effects of Troy for the men and women.

We were given some scenes from it to try out the girls were split into one group and all the boy were in parters I was parters with Charlie we decided to start off by reading through the scene and seeing what character we wanted to play I was reading the part as Talthybius I found this role different because he is a boring character and looks like he does not want people to be messing around and does not look like he has fun but it was a fun character to try out I found it hard reading some of the names in the script because I don't know the play that well and not sure on the story of Troy so I think I would need to research more about the story and play.

When setting this we found out from the script their was lots of people in beds so we had to make sure we were pointing at beds when we explaining who they were. I think Charlie and I worked really well together and acted well as a pair because we influenced each other and Charlie helped me a lot with reading some of the names and making sure I understood what it was.

I decided to find some images on places that we could set our performance and create some scenes. The first place I decided to find images for an alleyway and an underground because we wanted to have modern places to set our performance.