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.

Licking plates

This lesson we decided to create a new opening scene, basically the scene is based in the kitchen and there's havoc everywhere and Doctore and Pantolonie are arguing over who is the better manger. Whilst this happening everyone else is doing something, I'm licking the plates clean but Columbina and Brighella are telling me off and making me to do other stuff, we decided to to do this as it shows Zanni's submissive nature and his role in the heirachy he has to listen to everyone as he is at the bottom.

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

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.

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!

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,

Zanni's entertainment

Today we went through all the scenes we have created. These are:

• The thief
• Syrup scene
• New waitress
• Prawn soup
• Harlequin eats paper

We did this so we know what we have created and what we need to create for a finished performance, currently I think all the scenes are good as they haven't been over rehearsed therefore there is still an improvised tint to the performance which is how Comedia Dell'arte should be.

We also created a list of scenes we need to create. These are:

• Zanni's entertainment ( this is where Zanni fills in for the missing entertainers)
• Il Capitano's and  Doctore's cupboard scene (Il Captano writes a poem to Columbina however Doctore gets it )
• Extended fork ( Harlequin eats the guests food using an extendible fork)
• Cocking oil scene (Brighella swaps the apple juice with cooking oil and Harlequin drinks in)

After this we decided to start creating Zanni's entertainment scene, we started off by Brighella telling Pantolonie and Doctore that their entertainment double booked so they don't have entertainment for that night, however the entertainment is important as they think a critic is in that night. This leads everyone on stage figuring out what they are going to do . Then Doctore offers that he will do it as he is big headed and he has got a lot of talent when actually he hasn't. Then Harlequin starts laughing as he finds the fact that Doctore entertaining is funny. Then Brighella said that he is too busy to it. This leads to Il Capitano saying that he will "volunteer as tribute", then we added another joke saying that this is not hunger games we do this as it mixes modern entertainment with a very old art form showing that Comedia is very versatile. Then Il Capitano corrects himself saying that he will do an Elvis tribute everyone isn't to keen on this idea so then Columbina and Brighella decide to push Zanni into the middle and Zanni is refusing to do it. I will decide what song I will lip sync really badly next lesson

Polishing the stories

This lesson we spent working on the finishing touches of the Snow Queen.

Firstly we worked on Lorna's scene as we haven't rehearsed the scene without scripts or prompts, the movement is really good however there it is a bit messy when Charlie gets lifted up. We will work on this at a later date.

We then worked on my scene this scene was difficult to do as my narration is live therefore I've got to keep an eye on the movement making sure the dialogue and movement are on time. The final thing we need to do with my scene is to work with a silhouette sheet.

We then went to Lewis' scene as Rhiannon has only done the scene a couple of times, we felt that we need to show Rhiannon again so she gets it.Overall this scene went really well, I like how this scene is different to all the others and the inspiration of Brecht gives an extra depth to the story.

We also decided to record Roberts narration because everyone is not sure with their ques and their lines therefore we thought that we should record it so the narration and lines will be right, we will do this next lesson.