Variety Performance (Wednesday 7th October)

Variety Performance:

Activity warm-up:

We had a little warm up today in class to get our minds focused on using more body language and facial expressions and then relaying dialogue to help demonstrate the performance 's progress. So we stretched out at the beginning and then moved on to walk in a socially distant circle and we were to show through our body movement a way to greet each person as we walked by without any dialogue so that we could imprint it as another helpful technique on our performances in the future.

Theme: Together/ Apart:

Afterwards, our beloved teacher divided us into four groups of individuals of whom we have not interacted too much and we were given the theme of together / apart and we had to demonstrate this subject through three freeze frames and perform it to the rest of the class, my group agreed that we were going to do it about three best friends, who are so close together in the beginning but slowly drift away from each other because of school and the desire to achieve more for their own life which leaves one child stranded and alone.

In addition, after performing the piece in front of our classmates, we received constructive criticism on how to improve our piece overall as we had to perform it again, but we had to perform it all through this time round with no freeze frames needed, but keeping in mind that there is still no dialogue to be used.

Conjoining Groups:

We were then instructed to join another group after we performed our pieces related to the theme, which we then had to construct a different scenario about something that was important to the theme together / apart. So our group of seven wanted to make a family dinner involving a crumbly friendship, animosity between each participant and the host who owned the house, inviting everyone to dinner.

By pushing each other, we portrayed this to the crowd, disgusted faces because we wanted to empathise that we really hate the presence of each other and can't imagine that we were actually in the same space. As the couple continuously fought, one was kneeling on the table attempting to strangle the other, while the other was trying to fight back and end the relationship, resulting in physical contact. Another disagreement between enemies who hate each other so much that it often leads to verbal conversation.

And another argument between two people who dislike each other again with such a person that one raises a chair to throw at the other to prove that it's gotten to the point that they want to hurt the other seriously because of all the rage created within the person while the other is trying to protect themselves from getting hurt. Then it ends in silence as the host slams his hands on the table to demonstrate that they have had enough and leaves everyone, leaving him alone sighing in disbelief as no-one could get alone over dinner.

Overall, all this detailed touches helped to explain what was happening to our audience as they quickly got the idea and told how the multiple levels helped to explain each argumentative scenario that happened and the criticism we received was to use less dialogue.