Day: March 11, 2016

In my groups performance we wanted our audience to think about the feelings of not only the woman but the men when they were separated. To do this we used split scene, switching from one scene to the other then back to the first. We believed that the switch back to the first scene would create an effect which left the audience feeling how the performers were expressing themselves.

Unfortunately we were not able to perform due to time running faster than we thought it would, but in our starting scene we come up with the woman and her family sitting around a dinner table but with no husband , which caused them all feeling depressed and heartbroken due to the obvious reason of it not being the same, additionally they didn’t know weather he was alive or not.

The second second would of switched to the man in the trenches, one man in particular being distressed due to him not being able to be with his family , he would of broke down crying. This action symbolises the effect that war had on men, not only were they torn away from their family’s but their life was at risk.

The last scene would of been the wife performing a soliloquy, expressing how she felt about the whole situation. I thought this effect would of been really powerful because it would of been some sort of literal interaction which we don’t often get during performances. The soliloquy would of been depressing which would of left the audience feeling her pain.

Many men went to war but not all returned so we also wanted to focus on that, the whole idea of men being dragged away from their family and not being able to return, this would have a long long term affect.

The character of the Foreman gives us an insight of who he is , being or not being a manager. In this scene the foreman reveals the key to his motivation.. Fear. Whilst the workers are working intensely hard on finishing this wall , due to the amount of pressure they have on their shoulders they cannot concentrate to protect the country. Inconveniently whilst on the job one of the workers gets killed, not by anybody but a piece of equipment. Once the Foreman investigates what’s gone on his two main objectives are to get rid of the body and to get his workers working as if the situation never occurred. His motivation to disregard what has gone on is the whole concept of his fear. He is extremely scared because he knows what his job is , the city depends on it , so does his life. I would show his nervousness by making him react in a way resembling him panicking for example the quick movement from one spot to another, shouting at his workers to get rid of it, turning away in distraught. I would also want him to have some sort of interaction with the audience looking at them to indicate not to mention anything.

Q1-personally i think that Lear saluting throughout this scene was to exaggerate his trust and respect for his troops to the audience.however i also feel that it was cockiness, usually the person with the higher status is saluted to so him saluting to his troops was almost him saying ‘ i dont even need to worry i know you guys got me’.

– the frozen depiction i created consisted of lears army positioned opposite his daughters army.he is stood in-front of his army saluting with a smile on his face looking straight ahead.

-i made sure he was smiling so that audience would pick up on his confidence.in the previous scene he shot an innocent person so the audience would of already been aware that he was loosing his mind.so him smiling was to also concern the audience, the fact that he was smiling and just about to go to war was suppose to confuse the audience.