WEEK 6

This lesson we decided to focus on the idea of the beans in Jack and the beanstalk to represent a type of drug brought into Jacks life. We focused on the themes of Guilt and Addiction taken from red shoes and decided that the abuse of drugs and addiction to them would be a good way to show them, in this scene we learn more about Jack and his relationship with his Mother and Grandmother, we felt as a group this was an important thing to focus on in the scene, and I thought in general that by showing the bond of the relationship it will expand on the affect drugs can have on a person and their relationships, which would make the audience more emotionally involved later on in the performance. We also wanted to show how drugs can come into a family situation and tear it apart so by using the affection and love towards his family we could then show Jack begin to fall apart from his family and lose the people close to him.


We discussed the music options for the first scene and decided to use a song that contrasts against the love and connection in this scene, to create the theme of Kneehigh and to add something unexpected and almost weird into the scene. We used the song 'Animals-Cocorosie' as we sensed a hint of lullaby beats in the background and compared that to the idea of sleeping, which we done because we thought it would bring a small sense of naturalistic feel to the scene as we didn't want the first scene to be too surprising as we wanted it to build up throughout the performance. However we liked the contrast of the lyrics in the song as we felt it brought a real, mysterious vibe to the scene. We were very aware and careful when picking our songs as we didn't want to pick a song that had lyrics that could be related to the scene as we didn't want to confuse the audience by creating too much of a strong link between the song and the script.


CocoRosie- Animals


We also decided to have natural lighting to create the set of a bedroom, so we used the natural yellow lights focused in on all directions too open the whole space to be used in the scene instead of focusing on just one space on the stage so we could expand ourselves over, and create a natural way of life instead of trying to focus on only one spotlight.