Site Specific Physical Theatre

We have three physical theatre pieces the first is at the beginning of our performance which is showing how the girls were dancing in the woods this was very effective all of us chanting lyrics that were ritual back in those days:

Arc angel, dark angel send me thy light
Through death veil until we have heaven in sight.

We decided as a group that this worked really well saying it all together and getting louder at some points within the song I think having all the characters in this one will work well because we could lift Betty which will lead on well to scene one were she is in bed.

We wanted to have more physical theatre within our performance because as a group we work very well with movement and can come up with some interesting ideas.
Here are some of the ideas we came up with for the next movement piece:

• Abigail stabbing herself

• The relationship between Abigail and John Proctor

• The accusation of different people

• People deaths 

• Abigail running away

We decided we wanted to go with accusation with different people getting blamed we had the idea of Abigail being the main reason for all of this because she starting it all from the start. We all had different ideas a lot that came up we wanted to use candles and have people blow them out walking past them and all standing in a line with candles we thought this would not work because we cannot use fire and because of the lighting we thought battery candles would not work. We all had a section each that something would happen and everyone would blame us I was the first then it would get passed down to the next person while Abigail is in the middle like controlling us what is happening. 


This is the video of what we have created: 

The next movement piece we decided to create was Abigail running away we did look at doing a physical theatre piece to the stabbing of Abigail but as I already tell this story we decided it would work better to have Abigail running away near the end this is to show when she goes away she tries to get help but people just turn away from her and carry on with what they are doing we decided that we used the same sort of idea instead of going with a new one its in a reverse way this will start with John Proctor holding onto Abigail like we did in the other movement but the other way round we have created a story to tell with the audience and hope they understand the connection within each one and how every character feels and what is happening within each part.