WEEK 8

Over the 4 hours of lessons we had this week we firstly focused on creating the second dream of the performance where we used the idea of adding another fairy-tale/kids story, and took the context behind the Hansel and Gretel story to create Dream 2. We used this idea as we believed that this story would be well known to the public and would bring the audiences attention to the piece. We also thought that by using Hansel and Gretel instead of a really popular well known fairy-tale like Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, we have more opportunity to open up the story to more unexpected twists that would not be encountered for in the real storyline but would make sense if the story was to be rewritten with these events. We decided to use the idea of the witch taking over there bodies instead of turning them into food, to show the aspect of a sinister style from Kneehigh. We wanted to make this scene contrast as more confusing and weird compared to the first dream which was based on a more demon like style to show drugs over taking the mind, where as in this dream we wanted to show more the affects drugs can have.

Once this dream was finished we began to piece together the whole performance to get it completely finished so we could then focusing on picking out the improvement needed parts and adding Kneehigh to create an overall performance. We decided to end the scene on the idea that Jack and the beanstalk could ink back to Jack the ripper but not too intensely. However, the twist into it is that this scene is really a dream but we also came to the conclusion as a group that this would be left as a cliff-hanger so that the audience can decide how to take the last scene and leave with the thought they want. We also believed that by doing this we would be adding more Kneehigh affect as it would be highly unexpected.


We wanted to complete the whole piece instead of just going scene by scene in detail as we believed some scenes would work better without trying to add loads of detail into it, to create a more naturalistic affect and then we could add detail into the sinister twisted scenes so there was a strong contrast, once the whole thing was completed and all the characters and their traits were completed we filmed the whole piece so we could watch it over, analyse it and create the changes necessary to add effect, and to make sure the whole performance together made sense.