MEDEA

MEDEA

On Tuesday 18th September we worked on a new play with Sharon called Medea this was a one person play, before we even started working on it I made my own hypothesis on what the play was about as my own homework I wanted to research it however I find that when you research the plays you tend to copy the ideas so instead I went with my mind and created my own idea on what was happening in the play. Moving forward to lesson we were separated into groups where we were given a section of the speech to work on. My group was consisted of Me, Ben, Taylor, Katie, Daniella and Lucky. Together we read through the speech and decided that each of us would read a sentence, this became our first idea then Sharon told us that that we needed to create a performance just using the speech that was given to us. My groups whole general idea was to create an abstract piece, we used a variety of different techniques to create it such as the use of voice, we projected out the words at the audience to show our moods then we used facial expressions to show our emotions. We decided on levels as well, this was effective as it made our piece more abstract which was really nice. Then we decided on freeze frames and still images this was to capture the essence of our piece. Finally we joined in all our ideas and created a very nice performance. After we watched other people's performances one that really liked was a group that used echoes in their piece it made people really astonished and wowed because it worked really well.

Carrying on with the week on Wednesday 19th September we went back to our scenes that we created and with help from Sharon we were able to perfect it even further. Such as the beginning as we said the lines we would say them to each other but in partners as if each of us was having a conversation, the idea was to react all the time and after reacting we would freeze to show our reactions. Then we managed to finish up to the ending but yet it wasn't still good so Sharon gave us feedback. We should never lose the energy on our body language or facial expressions we should keep the energy the same throughout and how we should space it out it was really good advice because in the end we created something that really went with the speech. Finally we saw the other group's performance their one was different it was more realistic, they had the idea to pretend to talk to Medea as if she was up in the ceiling and they did that by focusing on an object in the ceiling. Another great idea they had was reacting to every word they said and repeating it again to show how important that word was such as "King's palace" I thought it really brought the scene. After we managed to join them together to create an amazing scene which really looked awesome if I do say so myself.