Response to Stimuli-
The stimuli we got given was 'Chasing Pavements' , analysis the lyrics to the song I thought that Chasing Pavements is about chasing dreams, and realization that you cant have everything you want, we got a variety of ideas from this, this included: Eating disorders ( we did a small movement piece were Ollie and I was controlling Cel,and she couldn't do anything about it), Comedy (we tried to create 4 different pieces which connect to each other at the same time however it didn't turn out to be funny), Therapy in Prison (we tried out alternative seating during this piece everyone including the actors, we also incorporated physical theater to make the audience feel like they are at the scenario, we also tried out a soundscape) and Domestic violence ( we did a small movement piece to show how unknown domestic violence can be. We also had many ideas this included: Madaline Mckaan, Ian Brady, Terrorism etc.
Development of our idea-
We experimented with many different techniques before we came up with the idea of the Jamie Bulger idea, our main technique we wanted to use at the start was Multi Media- we wanted to have many projections on at the same time however this would've been to difficult to put on as we performed in the hall so we didn't have access to many projectors.
For Handbag we thought that proxemics was really important as we need to show the shift in power, I found this very difficult to get a hold off as the script was altered.
We also improvised a lot ion order to get ideas for scenes, we had massive discussions and arguments which helped a lot as there is so much research into it the arguments was based on real situations which gave us ideas for scenes which would make the audience think about this issue.
Collaboration as a group-
Our group went through a few difficulties however this didn't effect the piece I think the arguments helped our group develop this piece, I also liked the versatility of the idea as everyone in the group gave completely different ideas, if I would do it again I would hope there would be less discussions as I feel we could of spent more time on the practical side.
Performance
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New identities
We wanted a scene were we can truly see the true emotions of Jon and Rob right before they come out of prison we did this by ha being an final counselling/ interrogation scene where we are basked questions but we answer the questions as if we are the new identity, both Rob and Jon don't comply with all the questions but they answer them all as their own characters. However there are a few freeze frames were we tell the audience what and who we really are. I like this concept as this is the first time we get to see the true emotions of Rob.I want the audience to feel a little bit of sympathy towardsRob in this scene as he was only a kid when he did the crime.
Creating a movement piece for the mothers monologue
This lesson we spent making a movement piece in order to emphasise the mothers depression for losing her beloved child.We decided that Ollie and I should stay as Jon and Rob throughout the movement piece, however we are nor physically there we are a figment of her imagination but because she has got so upset she starts to get a little bit disillusion and starts to mix reality with non- real.
Throughout the movement piece we use levels and proxemics to show power and submission, but we've also added childlike movements and features into the movement piece as the offenders were only ten when they killed Jamie. For example Ollie and I do a leap frog but because we are big people and I land on a higher level it looks really intimdting
Throughout the movement piece we use levels and proxemics to show power and submission, but we've also added childlike movements and features into the movement piece as the offenders were only ten when they killed Jamie. For example Ollie and I do a leap frog but because we are big people and I land on a higher level it looks really intimdting
Monologues
We wanted to show the audience what of what Jon and Rob has become a way we thought of doing this is by making monologues this allows me interpret Rob however I want because there's no one knows what he is or what he does. So I felt I should take more of an arrogant approach with the audience and to rub it in their faces to make the audience dislike me even more
The way Ill have to do this is to make my tone very arrogant and have a really slow pace of speaking.So the audice can understand every word I say.
The way Ill have to do this is to make my tone very arrogant and have a really slow pace of speaking.So the audice can understand every word I say.
A different POV
Throughout the whole performance we have seen different Point of Views of Jon and Rob: The polices, when they were younger, them in prison and them out of prison therefore we decided to concentrate on the Public POV however we wanted to do this by a more factual approach. The way we did this was by having short conversation of which have small link towards the death of Jamie Bulger for example, 'The battery has died on my phone' this relates to the batteries being forced into his anus.And then I would drop a battery on the floor whilst this is happening Jamie's mum can hear all the conversations and she's keep getting reminded of her sons death. The final conversation is about Jon being released from prison which makes Jamie's mum flip then the two guys see if she's okay, after that we thought it would be a good idea to get on our blocks and say facts about the murder case as this will give a bigger impact toward the audience.
We also thought of having a home video of Jamie Bulger in the background to end the performance to give the audience a sudden realisation that this actually happened and we don't know who and where they are! As they have new identities we dont know who they are we might of walked passed them before but we will never now that!
We also thought of having a home video of Jamie Bulger in the background to end the performance to give the audience a sudden realisation that this actually happened and we don't know who and where they are! As they have new identities we dont know who they are we might of walked passed them before but we will never now that!
Handbag
We have decided that we will use a scripted piece for our performance the best script we found was a scene from Handbag, this is because two of their characters are based on the notorious duo Jon Venebles and Robert Thompson. The scene we will be using is an argument between the two, where Robert is trying to wind up Jon, the key thing we want to show is the powershift between Jon and Rob. So we get to see Rob's desperation and optimism towards the situation of being in prison. We've done this by switching some of the lines and the use of proxemics and levels. I like this scene as we now get to see the real side of Rob, and the scene gives Rob a motive why he hasn't re-offended like Jon has.
In the middle of the scene during the dialogue we circle each other which is when the audience starts to see that Jon is starting to strip the power away from Rob, the reason we did this is because we wanted to show the audience a different side of Jon Venables the side that led him to re-offend.This will change the audiences opinion on Jon and realise that Jon is nothing but bad and agressive individual.
We will run through this scene to make sure it's polished enough for our performance,
In the middle of the scene during the dialogue we circle each other which is when the audience starts to see that Jon is starting to strip the power away from Rob, the reason we did this is because we wanted to show the audience a different side of Jon Venables the side that led him to re-offend.This will change the audiences opinion on Jon and realise that Jon is nothing but bad and agressive individual.
We will run through this scene to make sure it's polished enough for our performance,
Mothers Breakdown
We thought that it would be nice if we show the mothers reaction to the audience so they will feel more sympathetic towards Jamie and his mother. We liked the idea of Rhiannon keep asking the same question: what if? This will indicate to the audience that she inst mentally stable but it will also help them think more deep into the concept of her own son dying.
We had another idea for the mothers break down showing it through movement and showing the transition between her ex husband and her new husband we spent a lesson doing this using a puppeteer movement showing the mother getting controlled by the ex husband we did this to show she is doing everyday things still but she doesn't feel happy about it ( about the fact that her little baby bit is now dead and she will never see him again), and because of Jamie's death his mothers and fathers love was broken as they were too busy grieving, we made the start of the movement piece however felt like this will be too confusing for the audience so we didn't show it.
We will continue working on Rhiannon's monologue and create a movement piece around it.
We had another idea for the mothers break down showing it through movement and showing the transition between her ex husband and her new husband we spent a lesson doing this using a puppeteer movement showing the mother getting controlled by the ex husband we did this to show she is doing everyday things still but she doesn't feel happy about it ( about the fact that her little baby bit is now dead and she will never see him again), and because of Jamie's death his mothers and fathers love was broken as they were too busy grieving, we made the start of the movement piece however felt like this will be too confusing for the audience so we didn't show it.
We will continue working on Rhiannon's monologue and create a movement piece around it.
Interrorgation scene
For our Devised piece we thought it would be nice if we would in cooperate some true elements into the performance, so we came up with the idea to use the same dialogue which was used in there interrogations a day after the murder: The response from Jon was very remorseful and he blames Rob a lot however what confuses me is that he is the one which re offended. Controversially Rob is very chilled and doesn't care maybe this is because Rob knew he was going to prison so he just didn't care about the situation, to play Rob like this I will need to use my facial gestures a lot to reflect his feeling. He would just dangle his legs and probably play with his nails, the reason I will play him this way because we want the audience to hate my character.
Music which will suit physical thatre piece
Cerys said that she wanted to created a dance/ movement piece for her role as Jamie's mum this post is some research of music which I think will go well
I like the gardual build in this music as it can show the mental brakedown of Jamie's mum, we could add lifts when the build up is full, I also think Frantic inspired movement would absoulutly suit the music.
1st song, this is a very aggresive which could work if we say that Jamie's mum has a massive breakdown which could result in agression and violence.
2nd song: 2:23 this song is very sympathetic so we could do a nice slow movement piece of Jamie's mum reminising her son.
This is obiously chasing pavements this song could realtre to the tilte as well it is very slow so we could a very slow piece I think eachtime the chourus is one is when Jamie's mum is remebering her son and then when it goes to the verses she realises that he is no longer there, this could be really if we use Frantic inspired movements and maybe a lift
1st song, this is a very aggresive which could work if we say that Jamie's mum has a massive breakdown which could result in agression and violence.
2nd song: 2:23 this song is very sympathetic so we could do a nice slow movement piece of Jamie's mum reminising her son.
Ideas for the Jamie Bulger piece
Ive got an idea where we could have 3/4 separate ideas 'What if' stories, we could use projection we would have a few chances to add physical theatre/ dance for example if the section was 'What if Jamie Bulger didn't die' we could do a movement piece where we see Jamie Bulger rehabilitating from the attack. I thought we could possible have a homodigetic narrator in it ( a narrator who is an active participant in the story) and he could be Jamie Bulger, I think this idea is open for many different ways to interpret it however we wont get the sudden realisation from the audience which we want and also it might just be too boring for the audience.
Robert Thompson- Research
Robert Thompson is the malicious killer of Jamie Bulger. Here is some research :
Classification: Homicide
Characteristics: Juvenile (10) - Abduction - Torture
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: February 12, 1993.0
Date of arrest: 6 days after
Date of birth: August 23, 1982
Victim profile: James Patrick Bulger, 2
Method of murder: Beating with bricks, stones, and a piece of metal
Location: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
Status: Sentenced to custody until the age of 18. Released on lifelong licence in June 2001
James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 – 12 February 1993) was a two-year-old boy from Kirkby, Merseyside, England, who was abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson (born 23 August 1982) and Jon Venables (born 13 August 1982).
Bulger disappeared on 12 February 1993 from the New Strand Shopping Centre, Bootle, while accompanying his mother. His mutilated body was found on a railway line in nearby Walton on 14 February. Thompson and Venables were charged on 20 February 1993 with the abduction and murder.
Thompson and Venables were found guilty of the murder of Bulger on 24 November 1993, making them the youngest convicted murderers in modern English history. They were sentenced to custody until they reached adulthood, initially until the age of 18, and were released on lifelong licence in June 2001. The case has prompted widespread debate on the issue of how to handle young offenders when they are sentenced or released from custody.
CCTV evidence from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle taken on 12 February 1993 showed Thompson and Venables casually observing children, apparently selecting a target. The boys were playing truant from school, which they did regularly. Throughout the day, Thompson and Venables were seen stealing various items including sweets, a troll doll, some batteries and a can of blue paint, some of which were found at the murder scene. It was later revealed by one of the boys that they were planning to find a child to abduct, lead him to the busy road alongside the mall, and push him into the path of oncoming traffic.
That same afternoon, James Bulger (often called "Jamie" by the press, although never by his family), from nearby Kirkby, went with his mother Denise to the New Strand Shopping Centre. While inside a butcher's shop at around 3:40pm, Denise realised that her son had disappeared. He had been left at the door of the shop while she placed an order, and was spotted by Thompson and Venables. They approached him and spoke to him, before taking him by the hand and leading him out of the precinct. This moment was captured on a CCTV camera recording timestamped at 15:42.
The boys took Bulger on a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) walk across Liverpool, leading him to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal where he was dropped on his head and suffered injuries to his face. The boys joked about pushing Bulger into the canal. During the walk across Liverpool, the boys were seen by 38 people. Bulger had a bump on his forehead and was crying, but most bystanders did nothing to intervene, assuming that he was a younger brother. Two people challenged the older boys, but they claimed that Bulger was a younger brother or that he was lost and they were taking him to the local police station. At one point, the boys took Bulger into a pet shop, from which they were ejected. Eventually the boys led Bulger to a railway line near the disused Walton & Anfield railway station, close to Walton Lane police station and Anfield Cemetery, where they attacked him.
At the trial it was established that at this location, one of the boys threw blue Humbrol modelling paint into Bulger's left eye. They kicked him and hit him with bricks, stones and a 22-pound (10.0 kg) iron bar, described in court as a railway fishplate. They placed batteries in his mouth. Bulger suffered ten skull fractures as a result of the iron bar striking his head. Alan Williams, the case's pathologist, speculated that Bulger suffered so many injuries that none could be isolated as the fatal blow.
Police suspected that there was a sexual element to the crime, since Bulger's shoes, stockings, trousers and underpants had been removed. The pathologist's report read out in court stated that Bulger's foreskin had been manipulated. When questioned about this aspect of the attack by detectives and the child psychiatrist Eileen Vizard, Thompson and Venables were reluctant to give details.
Before they left him, the boys laid Bulger across the railway tracks and weighted his head down with rubble, in the hope that a train would hit him and make his death appear to be an accident. After Bulger's killers left the scene, his body was cut in half by a train. Bulger's severed body was discovered two days later, on 14 February. A forensic pathologist testified that he had died before he was struck by the train.
The crime created great anger in Liverpool. The family of one boy who was detained for questioning, but subsequently released, had to flee the city. The breakthrough came when a woman, on seeing slightly enhanced images of the two boys on national television, recognised Venables, whom she knew had played truant with Thompson that day. She contacted police and the boys were arrested. The fact that the boys were so young came as a shock to investigating officers, headed by Detective Superintendent Albert Kirby, of Merseyside Police. Early press reports and police statements had referred to Bulger being seen with "two youths" (suggesting that the killers were teenagers), the ages of the boys being difficult to ascertain from the images captured by CCTV.
Forensic tests also confirmed that both boys had the same blue paint on their clothing as found on Bulger's body. Both had blood on their shoes; blood on Thompson's shoe was matched to Bulger through DNA tests. The boys were charged with Bulger's murder on 20 February 1993, and appeared at South Sefton Youth Court on 22 February 1993, when they were remanded in custody to await trial.
The Manchester Evening News named the secure institutions in which the pair were housed, in possible breach of the injunction against publicity which had been renewed early in 2001. In December that year, the paper was fined £30,000 for contempt of court and ordered to pay costs of £120,000.
The Guardian revealed that both boys had passed A-levels during their sentences. The paper also told how the Bulger family’s lawyers had consulted psychiatric experts in order to present the parole panel with a report which suggested that Thompson is an undiagnosed psychopath, citing his lack of remorse during his trial and arrest. The report was ultimately dismissed. However, his lack of remorse at the time, in stark contrast to Venables, led to considerable scrutiny from the parole panel.
Upon release, both Thompson and Venables had lost all trace of their Liverpool accents. In a psychiatric report prepared in 2000 prior to Venables' release, he was described as posing a "trivial" risk to the public and unlikely to reoffend. The chances of his successful rehabilitation were described as "very high".
No significant publication or vigilante action against Thompson or Venables has occurred. Despite this, Bulger's mother, Denise, told how in 2004 she received a tip-off from an anonymous source that helped her locate Thompson. Upon seeing him, she was "paralysed with hatred" and was unable to confront him.
In April 2007, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act confirmed that the Home Office had spent £13,000 on an injunction to prevent a foreign magazine from revealing the new identities of Thompson and Venables.
On 14 March 2008, an appeal to set up a Red Balloon Learner Centre in Merseyside in memory of James Bulger was launched by Denise Fergus, his mother, and Esther Rantzen. A memorial garden in Bulger's memory was created in Sacred Heart Primary School in Kirkby. He would have been expected to attend this school had he not been murdered.
Bulger's parents Ralph and Denise divorced in 1995, and Denise married Stuart Fergus in 1998.
In March 2010, a call was made to raise the age of criminal responsibility in England from 10 to 12. Children's commissioner Maggie Atkinson said that the killers of James Bulger should have undergone "programmes" to help turn their lives around, rather than being prosecuted. The Ministry of Justice rejected the call, saying that children over the age of 10 knew the difference "between bad behaviour and serious wrongdoing".
In April 2010, a 19-year-old man from the Isle of Man was given a three-month suspended prison sentence for claiming in a Facebook message that one of his former work colleagues was Robert Thompson. In passing sentence, Deputy High Bailiff Alastair Montgomery said that the teenager had "put that person at significant risk of serious harm" and in a "perilous position" by making the allegation.
Jamie Bulger inspired piece
As we discovered that comedy wont work we decided that we should change our plot so we decided that we need to sit down and see what we can do, there was a lot of arguments but eventually we cam up with a brilliant idea; the idea is based on the horrific murder of Jamie Bulger (I'll do some research in a different post) We have a vague idea for the opening scene of the piece:
- Ollie and I would run on as the two children who murdered Jamie (the audience wont know this as we want a sudden realisation)
- Ollie and I would be watch a projection of a chucky doll advert, a brick advert and a Duracell advert ( we chose to do this to as to give a suttle hint to the audience of what will come - Jamie was killed with bricks and batteries, and people think the chucky inspired them to do it)
- At the end of the projection we want a sound of a train on tracks coming (as Jamie got dumped on train tracks and got his body ripped in half by it)
- Whilst the projection is happening Ollie and I will be like best Friends and laughing, this will make the audience think that we are innocent.
Ollie decide that I will be Robert Thompson( the one which they suspect that there is something wrong with him psychologically) and Ollie will be Jon Venbles ( the one who got caught with pornographic images of children after his release)
For next lesson I will conduct some research into Robert Thompson.
Brainstorming
Today we brainstormed ideas for our new devise piece. We came up with three main topics which we were all interested in this was:
- glamorization in the media- this piece would consist of how crimes are glamourized , for example Madeleine McCann was all over the media only because her parents could afford it, so this piece could lead into what we don't know this will be an interesting piece if we could explore crimes which we haven't heard of however there is a limit to what we can do and I haven't really got a clear image of what we can do.
- What if?- this would be another piece exploring on what if a crime didn't happen I thought this would be practically good with Madeleine McCann as it has revolutionized the way security now day, this idea has limitless of what if's however will it confuse the audience?
- Crime- this would be exploring the crime caused by people know as 'phsyco's' this would be interesting to explore different mental illness' , however we worried that this might be to cliché.
- Projection/ multimedia
- soundscapes
- chair duets
- Brecht
- Burkoff
Ian Brady- research
Birth name: Ian Duncan Stewart
A.K.A.: "The Moors Murderer"
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Rape
Number of victims: 5
Date of murder: July 1963 - October 1965
Date of arrest: October 7, 1965
Date of birth: January 2, 1938
Victim profile: Pauline Reade, 16 / John Kilbride, 12 / Keith Bennett, 12 / Lesley Ann Downey, 10 / Edward Evans, 17
Method of murder: Cutting the throat / Strangulation with a piece of string
Location: Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Status: Sentenced to three terms of life imprisonment on May 6, 1966
Moors Killings
Brady was responsible for the murders of five children during the 1960s. In August 1987 he claimed to police that he had carried out another five killings and even said where he had buried the bodies, but the police were never able to prove whether these claims were true.
The five murders that Brady admitted carrying out were committed with Hindley as his accomplice. These were the infamous Moors Murders, which are still some of the most reviled crimes in Britain decades after they happened. As a result, Brady and Hindley became two of the most hated individuals in British criminal history.
On July 12, 1963, the couple claimed their first victim. 16-year-old Pauline Reade was enticed into Hindley's minivan while Brady followed behind on his motorcycle. They drove up to Saddleworth Moor where Hindley asked Pauline to help her look for a lost glove. They were busy "searching the moors" when Brady pounced upon Pauline and raped her. He then smashed her skull in with a shovel and slashed her throat so violently that she was almost decapitated. Brady then buried Pauline's body on the moor, where it remained for over 20 years.
On November 23, Hindley lured 12-year-old John Kilbride into her car from a market place in Ashton-under-Lyne, and drove him to Saddleworth Moor. Brady was waiting there and ordered Hindley to wait for him in a nearby village in their hired Ford Anglia. While Hindley waited in her car, Brady attempted to stab the boy with a knife, but the weapon was too blunt. Brady lost his temper and strangled him to death with a string before burying his body in a shallow grave.
On June 16, 1964 their third victim was another 12-year-old boy, Keith Bennett, whom they enticed from a street in Chorlton and drove to Saddleworth Moor. Hindley stood and watched from the top of an embankment while Brady sexually assaulted Keith in a ravine before strangling him to death with a piece of string and burying his body. It has never been found.
The fourth victim, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, was lured from a fairground in Ancoats. Brady took nine obscene photographs of her, showing her naked, bound and gagged (which were later found in a suitcase in a left luggage locker). Hindley recorded the scene of the child's rape and torture by Brady on audio tape. The tape clearly records the voices of Brady, Hindley and the child, who is heard to scream and protest and asks to be allowed to go home and plead for her life. It is believed she was killed by Brady. The following morning, Brady and Hindley drove Lesley's body to Saddleworth Moor where it was buried in a shallow grave.
On October 6, 1965, the couple claimed their fifth and final victim, 17-year-old Edward Evans. They enticed him from Manchester Central Railway Station to their house in Hattersley, where Hindley's 18-year-old brother-in-law David Smith was visiting. Brady then crept up on Edward in the kitchen and smashed his head in with an axe. He ordered Smith to help him carry the corpse to an upstairs bedroom and tie it up ready for disposal, but Smith then ran home and contacted the police. Smith explained later that, while apparently giving assistance to cleaning up, his sole concern was to escape the house alive.
Sentencing
The death penalty was abolished just one month after Brady and Hindley were arrested. By the time they went on trial the following April, the punishment for murder was life imprisonment. This meant that a murderer was liable to be detained for the whole of his or her natural life, but could be released on life licence when no longer judged to be a risk.
On 6 May 1966, Brady was found guilty on three counts of murder and sentenced to three terms of life imprisonment. Hindley was found guilty of murdering Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans and given two life sentences; she also received a concurrent seven-year sentence for harbouring Brady in connection with the murder of John Kilbride.
The key evidence against the couple included the tape recordings of Downey's made while they photographed her naked; the name of John Kilbride in a notebook; and a photograph of Hindley standing on top of the shallow grave where Kilbride was buried. Brady immediately admitted the murder of Edward Evans, but adamantly insisted that Hindley had no part in it. Brady finally confessed to the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett in November 1986.
Imprisonment
Brady spent 19 years in a mainstream prison (at one point befriending serial poisoner and fellow Nazi aficionado Graham Frederick Young) before he was declared mentally disordered in 1985 and sent to a mental hospital.
The trial judge spoke of his doubt that Brady could ever reform, describing him as "wicked beyond belief" - and effectively giving him little hope of eventual release. Successive Home Secretaries have agreed with that decision, while Lord Lane (the former Lord Chief Justice), set a 40-year-minimum term in 1982. In 1990 he was told by Home Secretary David Waddington that both he and Hindley should never be freed.
His successor Michael Howard agreed with this judgement in 1994 and told Brady so. Although home secretaries can no longer decide the minimum length of a life sentence, and a European Court of Justice case currently in the process could soon see lifelong imprisonment outlawed, but Brady always insisted that he never wants to be released. He has had to be force-fed since going on hunger strike in September 1999, after the High Court refused him the right to starve himself to death.
In early 2006, various newspapers reported that Brady was hospitalised and doesn't have much longer to live. He is, however, still alive at present, and currently being held at Ashworth Hospital in Liverpool. In the extremely unlikely event of Brady ever being released, he would almost certainly be immediately arrested, tried and convicted for the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett, two murders which he was never charged with.
In 2001 Brady published a book called The Gates of Janus, which was published by the underground American publishing firm Feral House. The book, Brady's analysis of serial murder and specific serial killers, sparked outrage when announced in Britain.
Despite his incarceration, Brady (and his murders) still provide headlines for the UK tabloid press. Fellow prisoner Linda Calvey recently told the The Daily Mirror that, before her death in November 2002, Hindley confessed their killing of a young female hitch-hiker.
It has been reported that Brady devised a secret code to stop the police from finding out where the body of Keith Bennett is buried, and that he is furious that a drama documentary based on the murder was shown on ITV1 in May 2006. He has bragged to various newspapers that he has stopped four previous films from being made.
In early 2006, it was reported that a woman tried to smuggle 50 paracetamol tablets to Brady at the prison hospital. The amount would have been sufficient for a successful suicide attempt. Hospital employees foiled the attempt using X-ray screening, which revealed the pills in two sweets tubes inside a hollowed out crime novel.
Winnie Johnson, the mother of Brady's one undiscovered victim, received a letter from Brady at the end of 2005 claiming that he could take police to within 20 yards of her son's body, but the authorities would not allow it.
It has been reported that Brady has written his autobiography and has given his solicitor instructions that it may only be published after Brady's death.
A.K.A.: "The Moors Murderer"
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Rape
Number of victims: 5
Date of murder: July 1963 - October 1965
Date of arrest: October 7, 1965
Date of birth: January 2, 1938
Victim profile: Pauline Reade, 16 / John Kilbride, 12 / Keith Bennett, 12 / Lesley Ann Downey, 10 / Edward Evans, 17
Method of murder: Cutting the throat / Strangulation with a piece of string
Location: Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Status: Sentenced to three terms of life imprisonment on May 6, 1966
Moors Killings
Brady was responsible for the murders of five children during the 1960s. In August 1987 he claimed to police that he had carried out another five killings and even said where he had buried the bodies, but the police were never able to prove whether these claims were true.
The five murders that Brady admitted carrying out were committed with Hindley as his accomplice. These were the infamous Moors Murders, which are still some of the most reviled crimes in Britain decades after they happened. As a result, Brady and Hindley became two of the most hated individuals in British criminal history.
On July 12, 1963, the couple claimed their first victim. 16-year-old Pauline Reade was enticed into Hindley's minivan while Brady followed behind on his motorcycle. They drove up to Saddleworth Moor where Hindley asked Pauline to help her look for a lost glove. They were busy "searching the moors" when Brady pounced upon Pauline and raped her. He then smashed her skull in with a shovel and slashed her throat so violently that she was almost decapitated. Brady then buried Pauline's body on the moor, where it remained for over 20 years.
On November 23, Hindley lured 12-year-old John Kilbride into her car from a market place in Ashton-under-Lyne, and drove him to Saddleworth Moor. Brady was waiting there and ordered Hindley to wait for him in a nearby village in their hired Ford Anglia. While Hindley waited in her car, Brady attempted to stab the boy with a knife, but the weapon was too blunt. Brady lost his temper and strangled him to death with a string before burying his body in a shallow grave.
On June 16, 1964 their third victim was another 12-year-old boy, Keith Bennett, whom they enticed from a street in Chorlton and drove to Saddleworth Moor. Hindley stood and watched from the top of an embankment while Brady sexually assaulted Keith in a ravine before strangling him to death with a piece of string and burying his body. It has never been found.
The fourth victim, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, was lured from a fairground in Ancoats. Brady took nine obscene photographs of her, showing her naked, bound and gagged (which were later found in a suitcase in a left luggage locker). Hindley recorded the scene of the child's rape and torture by Brady on audio tape. The tape clearly records the voices of Brady, Hindley and the child, who is heard to scream and protest and asks to be allowed to go home and plead for her life. It is believed she was killed by Brady. The following morning, Brady and Hindley drove Lesley's body to Saddleworth Moor where it was buried in a shallow grave.
On October 6, 1965, the couple claimed their fifth and final victim, 17-year-old Edward Evans. They enticed him from Manchester Central Railway Station to their house in Hattersley, where Hindley's 18-year-old brother-in-law David Smith was visiting. Brady then crept up on Edward in the kitchen and smashed his head in with an axe. He ordered Smith to help him carry the corpse to an upstairs bedroom and tie it up ready for disposal, but Smith then ran home and contacted the police. Smith explained later that, while apparently giving assistance to cleaning up, his sole concern was to escape the house alive.
Sentencing
The death penalty was abolished just one month after Brady and Hindley were arrested. By the time they went on trial the following April, the punishment for murder was life imprisonment. This meant that a murderer was liable to be detained for the whole of his or her natural life, but could be released on life licence when no longer judged to be a risk.
On 6 May 1966, Brady was found guilty on three counts of murder and sentenced to three terms of life imprisonment. Hindley was found guilty of murdering Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans and given two life sentences; she also received a concurrent seven-year sentence for harbouring Brady in connection with the murder of John Kilbride.
The key evidence against the couple included the tape recordings of Downey's made while they photographed her naked; the name of John Kilbride in a notebook; and a photograph of Hindley standing on top of the shallow grave where Kilbride was buried. Brady immediately admitted the murder of Edward Evans, but adamantly insisted that Hindley had no part in it. Brady finally confessed to the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett in November 1986.
Imprisonment
Brady spent 19 years in a mainstream prison (at one point befriending serial poisoner and fellow Nazi aficionado Graham Frederick Young) before he was declared mentally disordered in 1985 and sent to a mental hospital.
The trial judge spoke of his doubt that Brady could ever reform, describing him as "wicked beyond belief" - and effectively giving him little hope of eventual release. Successive Home Secretaries have agreed with that decision, while Lord Lane (the former Lord Chief Justice), set a 40-year-minimum term in 1982. In 1990 he was told by Home Secretary David Waddington that both he and Hindley should never be freed.
His successor Michael Howard agreed with this judgement in 1994 and told Brady so. Although home secretaries can no longer decide the minimum length of a life sentence, and a European Court of Justice case currently in the process could soon see lifelong imprisonment outlawed, but Brady always insisted that he never wants to be released. He has had to be force-fed since going on hunger strike in September 1999, after the High Court refused him the right to starve himself to death.
In early 2006, various newspapers reported that Brady was hospitalised and doesn't have much longer to live. He is, however, still alive at present, and currently being held at Ashworth Hospital in Liverpool. In the extremely unlikely event of Brady ever being released, he would almost certainly be immediately arrested, tried and convicted for the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett, two murders which he was never charged with.
In 2001 Brady published a book called The Gates of Janus, which was published by the underground American publishing firm Feral House. The book, Brady's analysis of serial murder and specific serial killers, sparked outrage when announced in Britain.
Despite his incarceration, Brady (and his murders) still provide headlines for the UK tabloid press. Fellow prisoner Linda Calvey recently told the The Daily Mirror that, before her death in November 2002, Hindley confessed their killing of a young female hitch-hiker.
It has been reported that Brady devised a secret code to stop the police from finding out where the body of Keith Bennett is buried, and that he is furious that a drama documentary based on the murder was shown on ITV1 in May 2006. He has bragged to various newspapers that he has stopped four previous films from being made.
In early 2006, it was reported that a woman tried to smuggle 50 paracetamol tablets to Brady at the prison hospital. The amount would have been sufficient for a successful suicide attempt. Hospital employees foiled the attempt using X-ray screening, which revealed the pills in two sweets tubes inside a hollowed out crime novel.
Winnie Johnson, the mother of Brady's one undiscovered victim, received a letter from Brady at the end of 2005 claiming that he could take police to within 20 yards of her son's body, but the authorities would not allow it.
It has been reported that Brady has written his autobiography and has given his solicitor instructions that it may only be published after Brady's death.
Not so funny
This lesson I brought my stuff to do the Ollies scene, I perfromed it to the class and I felt really uncomfortable because of this no one actually found it funny, so we decided that we need to scrap this idea as the class didnt like it. Now we are questioning if we should keep won doing comedy, overall our group decided that we should try something else, we looked at mental illness for example we looked at OCPD:
Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), also calledanankastic personality disorder,[1] is a personality disorder characterized by a general pattern of concern with orderliness, perfectionism, excessive attention to details, mental and interpersonal control, and a need for control over one's environment, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency.Workaholism and miserliness are also seen often in those with this personality disorder. Rituals are performed to the point of excluding leisure activities and friendships. Persons affected with this disorder may find it hard to relax, always feeling that time is running out for their activities and that more effort is needed to achieve their goals. They may plan their activities down to the minute—a manifestation of the compulsive tendency to keep control over their environment and to dislike unpredictable things as things they cannot control.[2]
OCPD occurs in about 2–8% of the general population and 8–9% of psychiatric outpatients.[3] The disorder most often occurs in men.[4]
This is a distinct disorder from obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), which is an anxiety, rather than a personality disorder, and the relation between the two is contentious. Some, but not all, studies have found high comorbidity rates between the two disorders, and both may share outside similarities – rigid and ritual-like behaviors, for example. Hoarding, orderliness, and a need for symmetry and organization are often seen in people with either disorder. However, attitudes toward these behaviors differ between people affected with either of the disorders: for people with OCD, these behaviors are unwanted and seen as unhealthy, being the product of anxiety-inducing and involuntary thoughts, while for people with OCPD they are experienced as rational and desirable, being the result of, for example, a strong adherence to routines, a natural inclination towards cautiousness, or a desire to achieve perfection.
This would be intersting to experiment with as no one really knows what it is and its so rare that not many people suffer with it.
Next lesson we wioll decided what we want to do
Starting our new idea
This lesson we decided toi concentrate on Ollie scene, this is not final as he wants to get a script from out numberd therfore this idea is not final. We decided to devise a normal house hold where Rhiannon is a rebilous teenager and its my first day at sebior school, Cel is the mum and Ollie is the dad.
The scene stated off with calling Rhiannon but being a steriotypical teenager she has changed her mind and they have had an argument about that, whilst this is happening Cel is trying to get me up from bed, then they send me to the shower where the audience will see but there will be a towel so it looks like im naked when im not, the they wanted me to be vert femine and sing songs like: I feel like a woman' and 'Anaconda' whilst dancing in the shower this will be funny as itll be unexpected ontop of this it is very normal for this to happen, after that Olllie questions my gender then we leave to go to school. I think if we have more time this will be funny however it's going to be very hard to excuite it as we need to get the timing right.
Ollie is making a script for next lesson
The scene stated off with calling Rhiannon but being a steriotypical teenager she has changed her mind and they have had an argument about that, whilst this is happening Cel is trying to get me up from bed, then they send me to the shower where the audience will see but there will be a towel so it looks like im naked when im not, the they wanted me to be vert femine and sing songs like: I feel like a woman' and 'Anaconda' whilst dancing in the shower this will be funny as itll be unexpected ontop of this it is very normal for this to happen, after that Olllie questions my gender then we leave to go to school. I think if we have more time this will be funny however it's going to be very hard to excuite it as we need to get the timing right.
Ollie is making a script for next lesson
Our new ideas
This lesson we decided to plan on what we want to do for our final devised piece. I quite like the idea of comedy as the other groups are going down quite serious routes, however this is very risky as we dont know how the out come will become as nione of us has much experience in comedy, we also decid to go down dark comedy as this is very broad and we can work with a lot more stuff.
All of us liked the idea of looking into diffrent households and how they cope with certain situations, like the tv show: gogglebox, or the play 'Roads' by Jim Cartwright. We also thought that all the story should link to something and eventually we decided that we should concentrate on one man who died and its his funeraial, one person from each househld will go, its a but like 'love actually' where at the end you realise that all of the characters are somehow linked.
We also thought of tackiling tough topics however funny for example we dream for teenagers. We thought that we need some parts to be serious in order to make the piece more funny.
We also thought that we should if we are going comedy it should be british comedy so we can use scenes from shows like: 'Bad Education', 'Very British Problems'.
This will be very hard as we want the comedy to be natruael or elses itll just turn into a wreck.
So now we got our inital ideas we decided that we need to create character profiles and families and link them to the dead person.
Heres what the families are
Ollie section: He is an old flat mate of the dead persdon he lives with his: Wife(Cel), and two of his friends come over (Rhiannon and James.
James' section: He is the dead guys nephew, he is in a gay relationship with Ollie and he lives with his sister (Rhiannon) and his best friend is visting him(Cel)
Cel's section: she is the dead guys younger sister she lives with her boyfriend (Ollie), and her children (James and Rhiannon)
Rhiannon's section: she is the dead guys best friend and she lives with husband ( Ollie) and her children who are Twins (Cel and James)
Character profile for dead guy:
Name: John David
Age: 32
Cause of Death: Auto Erotic Assimilation
Lives: Liverpool
Music taste: House
Relationship status: Married for ten years to Fiona but then divorced.
Job: Accountant who studied in London.
I think if we do the right reseacrch this piece will be very intersting and entertainment.
All of us liked the idea of looking into diffrent households and how they cope with certain situations, like the tv show: gogglebox, or the play 'Roads' by Jim Cartwright. We also thought that all the story should link to something and eventually we decided that we should concentrate on one man who died and its his funeraial, one person from each househld will go, its a but like 'love actually' where at the end you realise that all of the characters are somehow linked.
We also thought of tackiling tough topics however funny for example we dream for teenagers. We thought that we need some parts to be serious in order to make the piece more funny.
We also thought that we should if we are going comedy it should be british comedy so we can use scenes from shows like: 'Bad Education', 'Very British Problems'.
This will be very hard as we want the comedy to be natruael or elses itll just turn into a wreck.
So now we got our inital ideas we decided that we need to create character profiles and families and link them to the dead person.
Heres what the families are
Ollie section: He is an old flat mate of the dead persdon he lives with his: Wife(Cel), and two of his friends come over (Rhiannon and James.
James' section: He is the dead guys nephew, he is in a gay relationship with Ollie and he lives with his sister (Rhiannon) and his best friend is visting him(Cel)
Cel's section: she is the dead guys younger sister she lives with her boyfriend (Ollie), and her children (James and Rhiannon)
Rhiannon's section: she is the dead guys best friend and she lives with husband ( Ollie) and her children who are Twins (Cel and James)
Character profile for dead guy:
Name: John David
Age: 32
Cause of Death: Auto Erotic Assimilation
Lives: Liverpool
Music taste: House
Relationship status: Married for ten years to Fiona but then divorced.
Job: Accountant who studied in London.
I think if we do the right reseacrch this piece will be very intersting and entertainment.
Juxtaposition of music
Todays lesson we decided that we wanted to explore the affect of music has on the audience. So we decided that we have happy music however do a sad piece. I the end we decided the best issue we could do would be Eating disorders, this is because Eating disorders are mis-interpreted by many people therefore we would like to inform the audience of Anorhexia, this is were you simply refuse to eat this is because they are insecure on how they look therefore they want to like what they are seeing in the mirror the only solution they can think of is to stop eating, this can result in many sideaffects including : brittle nails, fatigued all the time, seizures and even could kill you.. As Cel has sufferd from this a couple of times we have a view from someone who has sufferd, this will make us understand more on this issue, and we could understand he feelings the sufferer has went through.
So we started off by doing a sad song with happy movements this would show how people hide their insecurities inside and they dont make it obvious that they have a problem. We found this diffcult as we couldnt sound sad whilst doing a happy expression. If we had more time I think we could of done it however we did have a limited amount of time therfore we moved on to a diffrent idea; our next idea was that Ollie and I would represnt annorexia whilst Cel would be in the middle being the one who is suffering. This way we could play around with puppertry and use of lifts. We then came up with the idea of saying facts about the eating disorder whilst doing the movement.
We then found a song which was completely diffrent to our movement piece, the song was 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM. I think this music suited the piece a lot.However I think other song would of been more suited e.g. I feel Pretty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0uiCkY67Rg.
We also referd the suffer as 'Ana' as it is short for Anarexia and it shows that this eating disorder has took over her life. I liked the movements especially the one at the end showing that we are shwoing that the eating disorder has consumed her.
Here are the facts which we used:
So we started off by doing a sad song with happy movements this would show how people hide their insecurities inside and they dont make it obvious that they have a problem. We found this diffcult as we couldnt sound sad whilst doing a happy expression. If we had more time I think we could of done it however we did have a limited amount of time therfore we moved on to a diffrent idea; our next idea was that Ollie and I would represnt annorexia whilst Cel would be in the middle being the one who is suffering. This way we could play around with puppertry and use of lifts. We then came up with the idea of saying facts about the eating disorder whilst doing the movement.
We then found a song which was completely diffrent to our movement piece, the song was 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM. I think this music suited the piece a lot.However I think other song would of been more suited e.g. I feel Pretty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0uiCkY67Rg.
We also referd the suffer as 'Ana' as it is short for Anarexia and it shows that this eating disorder has took over her life. I liked the movements especially the one at the end showing that we are shwoing that the eating disorder has consumed her.
Here are the facts which we used:
- Physical effects of an eating disorder can be fatal.
- 720,000 people in the UK are effected by an eating disorder.
- 90% of people with the conditions are female.
- The most common eating disorders are: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder.
- Bulimia is 2 or 3 times more common than anorexia.
I enjoyed this piece as we got to inform the audience of how fatal eating disorders can do, I also like the way we exporessioned Cel's emotions by using movement, my favoroute part of it is the juxtapostioned music whoich was used in the piece. If we had more time I think we would of found more clever ways to personify the etasing disorders and we could ofg even concentrated on anothoer condition like Bulemia.
the rehabilitation scene
In today's lesson we continued on experimenting with ideas and techniques, I thought we should a soundscape as if used properly can create an immense atmosphere which would be a good asset for the performance. We also came up with the idea to change where the audience sat, instead of a stereotypical row we thought if we bring them into the show itself it will immerse them into the performance. I think the composition of the seats allowed us to engage the audience more into the performance, this made our audience more sympathetic towards the characters.
As you can see from the video everybody had a different story on how they have ended up in Prison, the way we did this was to add a mixture of movements and the use of speech, for example in Oliver's bit we contracted around him we did this to show that everything was disorientated from his point of view. We also thought carefully about the positioning of the performance as people need to be at a different angle so everyone can see, we found this very difficult as we cant perform in the middle without having our backs to a few people, if we do this again we would need to consider this factor. If we had more time with this I think we could of turned into a promenade performance with each story, again this would of been difficult as there is only four of us in the group therefore it'll be difficult to guide the audience and to change characters.
For my character I decided to maintain a soft voice, this was to comfort the audience and the characters. And as I'm a Councillor I wont be forceful as I'm there to help, therefore I will be asking questions and making sure that everyone is comfortable.
As you can see from the video everybody had a different story on how they have ended up in Prison, the way we did this was to add a mixture of movements and the use of speech, for example in Oliver's bit we contracted around him we did this to show that everything was disorientated from his point of view. We also thought carefully about the positioning of the performance as people need to be at a different angle so everyone can see, we found this very difficult as we cant perform in the middle without having our backs to a few people, if we do this again we would need to consider this factor. If we had more time with this I think we could of turned into a promenade performance with each story, again this would of been difficult as there is only four of us in the group therefore it'll be difficult to guide the audience and to change characters.
For my character I decided to maintain a soft voice, this was to comfort the audience and the characters. And as I'm a Councillor I wont be forceful as I'm there to help, therefore I will be asking questions and making sure that everyone is comfortable.
Research- Domestic violence
Today we are researching an idea for our devising unit, I decided to research Domestic abuse:
Around 1 in 5 children have been exposed to domestic abuse.
A third of children witnessing domestic violence also experienced another form of abuse.
The definition of domestic violence in England and Wales was expanded in March 2013 to include victims aged 16 and 17 years old. It also now includes controlling behaviour and coercive behaviour.
1 in 5 teenagers have been physically abused by their boyfriends or girlfriends.
This is made me realize that domestic abuse is more common than I actually thought. This made me think that I should do a piece where we can inform the audience about the problems of domestic abuse as I feel that not enough people know how often domestic abuse actually happens. I think it would be interesting if we can include a bit of physical theater into this issue, and maybe make the audience experience this abuse by using an Artone inspired piece.
I thought Radioactive from Rudimental would be a good song as it have a child like tune to it which would creep out the audience a little bit.
In the end we ended up with a small physical theater piece about a dad (me) of the family abusing his child and wife, we wanted to do this to show that domestic can become so serious that it can result in death. I'm looking forward to expand our idea and hopefully inform the audience of the seriousness of domestic abuse.
If we continue with this I would a motif in the movement piece which eventually stops or deteriorates to show that the relationship is breaking down.I would of also wanted people to say facts which I found through my research.
Here's the video:
1 in 5 teenagers have been physically abused by their boyfriends or girlfriends.
Children exposed to domestic violence are more likely to have behavioural and emotional problems.
SOURCE: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-abuse-and-neglect/domestic-abuse/domestic-abuse-facts-statistics/This is made me realize that domestic abuse is more common than I actually thought. This made me think that I should do a piece where we can inform the audience about the problems of domestic abuse as I feel that not enough people know how often domestic abuse actually happens. I think it would be interesting if we can include a bit of physical theater into this issue, and maybe make the audience experience this abuse by using an Artone inspired piece.
I thought Radioactive from Rudimental would be a good song as it have a child like tune to it which would creep out the audience a little bit.
In the end we ended up with a small physical theater piece about a dad (me) of the family abusing his child and wife, we wanted to do this to show that domestic can become so serious that it can result in death. I'm looking forward to expand our idea and hopefully inform the audience of the seriousness of domestic abuse.
If we continue with this I would a motif in the movement piece which eventually stops or deteriorates to show that the relationship is breaking down.I would of also wanted people to say facts which I found through my research.
Here's the video:
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