Criminal justice
Taught by Naomi
In today's lesson we had 3 visitors not including Naomi who has been teaching us, they are all linked to the donmar project and came to see us in action!
We started the lesson off with a quick warm up, what else could it be other than fi fii foo! After impressing out visitors with our fantastic choir skills we was asked to show our rehabilitation scenes. Emma's group went first, I really enjoy this groups scene as it's quite scary but real at the same time showing brain science, Emma and Kurtis being in the chair with a helmet on being questioned and given tasks by 4 different doctors I really loved sharnae a doctor activity when she asked Emma and kurtis to right how they feel Kurtis wrote a smiley face and he passed where as Emma wrote HELP and failed the test the only thing they can improve on is cutting the time limit and making sure it's clear what is going on in the scene as it could be confusing for the audience.
It was then our groups turn to perform our yoga rehabilitation scene, I think our scene went extremely well as it was clear straight to the point it still had a dark edge but was yet slighty funny from the audiences reaction.
Our feedback was for the yoga people to be slightly more aggressive when forcing misharlie to sit down and participate, we then went off to improve our scene and decided instead of circling misharlie we will stand in the same spot shouting at her and moving aggressively in yoga positions this shows even more how intimidated rose is in this scene as she doesn't even have to be touched to feel that she has to do something showing rose is getting weak in solitary confinement
After this Naomi asked us as a class to think about all the things we have done in the past 3 weeks then called out our running order and the stuff we'd be doing in our final performance this is when it all came together!
Our first scene is Emma singing the song we learnt "on my own" with her saying "my name is rose" and everyone else from the wings singing on my own in a low pitched voice then everyone enters the scene sitting down in their own space doing the activity of rose in the cell with music on and our 5 positions/movements.
Then we had our lines myself Conor gifty Abigail and sharnae say our lines one by one mine being "I live in concrete" we then go to the Christmas scene my group devised in previous rehearsals when rose returns home from solitary confienment the first time.
We then go to the second lot of lines where another 6 people read out their lines then it's the first rehabilitation scene Being Emma's group and the brain science. Then onto my groups yoga scene we then go to the part we done in rehearsal the story telling of rose stabbing the girl who wanted to fight her and how she ended up back in solitary confinement again. Hangela starts off by standing up and shouting while everyone else leafs after saying their own lines out loud to the invisible girl infront of her we then have a cue when hangela lifts her arm we all stab and freeze, slowly lowering back into the prison cell.
As you can see the plays structure is not in chronological order. This gives it a quirky edge and doesn't lay it out for the audience they have to think and really understand the play.
We then have the last batch of lines and then it's Sarah's group and the boot camp scene.
Then finally we all stand up and are talking to rose as the judge telling her she's been sent to Mars as she is a criminal and will participate in solitary confinement as the play is set in 30 years time.
Last but not least we all returns to our prison cells just like the begining with Emma singing "my name is rose" and the class singing back in role "on my own".
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