WEEK 5

After discussing where are piece was going, we decided as a group to start again and change our idea as we felt that none of us were really getting an attachment to the piece and couldn't get comfortable in the character and the story line and felt that our piece related to Kneehigh but had a small amount of relation to the story of Red shoes and we wanted to create a piece based on the themes taken from Red shoes and also wanted to focus on the idea of a twisted fairy-tale/kids story, and used the idea of Jack and the Beanstalk, we decided to use this as we knew it was well known so people would understand it but hoped that the twists we were deciding to place into the piece would catch the audience off guard and be really unexpected, which is a strong aim for a Kneehigh company production to create.



We decided to create the original characters of Jack and his Mum to stick to the story line, however with the two extra people in the group we created a character of Jacks Nan and a best friend figure for Jack, we done this as before we started devising we made a list of ideas of plot twists we wanted to create, which contained of twists such as jack potentially dying near the end of the piece as a result to the drugs,a longer expand on his family finding out about past generations and how there amily evolved to become what it is today, the story relating to Jack and the beanstalk but having a wtist at the end linking the charcter of 'Jack' to actually link to Jack the Ripper and an unplanned pregnancy occuring into the story  and then based the characters in the piece on what would look best whilst adding the plot twists.We decided to use the Jack the ripper plot twist as we felt that we could relate this back to the story of red shoes and the idea of her feet being cut from her body as a result of addiction, as well as using Kneehigh overall to create the most unpredictable plot twist and something none of us had ever really seen in theatre before.

We only then focused on creating the first scene as we had spent a lot of the lesson speaking about new ideas and costumes and set, we decided to keep the natural world costumes quite predictable and stereotypical, such as black leggings and then a coloured top for the charcter of the bestfriend, and like a pair of trousers and a patterened old fashioned top for the Nan, as we wanted to create the most naturalistic vibe we could gain for the 'life' scenes, and then decided the costumes in the 'Dream' scenes would be vibrant and quite strange so that there would be an obvious change of normal day life and dream scenes, as well as using the costumes to show how strange and unpredictable the dreams can become.
We decided to keep the first scene quite relatable and naturalistic as we wanted the magical and mysteriousness of it to grow stronger as the piece went on, so we created a scene where all characters were introduced by names and personality, so that the audience could get a good point of view on the relationships in the storyline.

We created a small set that remains the same through out the whole piece, which contains three different levels, and holds a tree in-between the three of them. We decided to use this as we thought it was very un-naturalistic and unexpected and links to the idea of weirdness in Kneehigh. We are going to expand on this and cover the whole of the stage blocks so they relate back to nature to really contrast against the piece, to create an unexpected set against the performance ideas. We tried to show the personalities in all characters strongly because we have multiples scenes were dreams occur and in these dreams our fairy-tale characters are based on our normal life characters personality.