WEEK 9

Over the last weeks we focused on only accepting and adding to the final piece and scenes we had. As we had spent a lot of the lessons, focusing on fully developing the first 3-4 scenes, we decided for the first hour of the first lesson to continue creating the Hansel and Gretel scene until we were happy with how it went, we decided to add a physical theatre movement piece to the instrumental of the song 'Human, Rag'n'BoneMan' , we wanted to add music into our piece were we could as we wanted to keep an on going vibe when there was no speech. We focused on using puppetry to show the witches taking control of our bodies, like the drugs take over Jacks body. We also thought this would be a good idea as it would attract the audience to watch and try to understand what is happening.

As we wanted to use the progress of the show to highlight the affect drugs can have on an individuals life and there personal relationships with family and friends we decided to create an argument linking from a scene beforehand were jack begins too lose focus on Amy and what she has to say, to show a few weeks down the line were Jack and Amy's relationship has completely fallen apart created by Jacks paranoia from the drug usage. It starts with a slow vibe of stress and anger, to show Amy still trying to offer support to Jack but as the argument continues Amy gives up more and more and by the end they are screaming at each other and the audience watch the whole relationship fall apart with the line that ends on "I'm done with this Amy". This is due to the fact that all though this is months after the dynamics of the argument are made to represent the time from where Jack began to take drugs to where the affect has begun to tear his life apart. This creates an effect on the audience as it creates an emotional attachment from the audience to Amy of how hard she has tried to work to help and support Jack and will show the affect of drugs and how at the start of the performance Jack was so enticed by Amy and her friendship to then see them fall apart, would make the audience feel apart of the friendship. By creating a relationship from the audience to Amy to then lead on to the 'Butchering Scene' would create such an unexpected twist, it would shock the audience as well as ending with a Kneehigh inspired scene.

The last scene "Butchered"has been inspired by the idea of Jack the Ripper as well as mixing in the idea of Red Shoes and how the shoes can not be taken from here fit so therefore have to be cut off. We decided to have red flood lights and strobes to create a scary affect and using the red to also represent blood and danger. We use the song 'Jack- Tiger lillies'  which has a weird vibe to it and has no beat but the lyrics are very twisted. We wanted to use a song that fits to the piece so that the audience understand the vibe of the scene. We use fake blood to create effect and contrast it onto white sheets to really highlight the blood.