29.01.20 - FEST - Mrs Williams

POINT PLOT / STORY LINE

• Physical Theatre Prologue (feat. Monologue from James)
• Exploring relationships with characters
• Overhears customers
• Louis and Amelie on stage together - they already live together and are planning the wedding
• Harry loves Meredith
• Meredith is a control freak and gets a kick out of controlling
• Charles wants to split Harry and Meredith because he's in love with her
• Charles tells Harry a lie that Meredith has been seen with the bar man
• Fight between Harry and Frederick 

Little things that pick at Harry

• Harry smells Meredith's perfume on Frederick 
• Phone gets left behind and receives message from Frederick
• Harry finds a piece of clothing that isn't his
• Left phone behind when she's gone to yoga, yoga teacher texts asking when she will get there
• Getting a message from a nickname / unisex name
• Leaving phone behind - message from Frederick saying 'you left your bag here' when she was at the bar with Harry
• Meredith goes to bar and bar tender pours drink and says something a bit flirty or personal which Harry doesn't like
• Charles introduced Meredith to Harry and Harry was supposed to be the wingman to Charles but just stole Meredith
• Harry at bar, notification on Frederick's phone of 'M' - Harry thinks it's Meredith but it's Marie

5 Points

• Wedding planning
• The lies
• The fight
• Harry being left alone
• They separate and find their loyalties lie within themselves

More Detail

• All characters introduced
• All relationships introduced
• All relationships shown through the wedding planner (guest list, best man etc.)
• Dinner party announcement of engagement
• Charles tells Harry about little rumour
• Series of lies in physical theatre
• Spying on Meredith
• Gradually gets more and more convinced
• Conflict
• Wedding cancelled
• Harry being left alone

WHAT WE WILL DO NOW

Do point 5 last because it's a result of everything else that happens.

Makes more sense to start with point 1

Split into groups

Louis, Tristan and Amelie (James scribes)

Emma, Silvana, Hugo and Seth come up with scenarios about the conspiracies to do with Meredith cheating

CONSPIRACIES

• I saw her at the bar with Frederick
• Frederick was giving her free drinks
• They looked all over each other
• He took her to his room
• Instead of going to yoga class, she goes to meet her lover
• She can't keep her legs closed
• Frederick keeps winking at her from across the room
• She actually eats meat
• She's slept with everyone in this town

15.01.20 - FEST - Mrs Williams

BRAINSTORM

Loyalty

• standing by someone at all times
• cheating on s/o
• compromising beliefs to defend people you're loyal to
• brand loyalty
• biological family vs the people who actually raised you

IMPROVISATION

Tristan and Emma

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• Silent entrance - showing the desperation
• Narrative enigma
• Shift of emotions from angry to wanting help and advise

Louis, Amelie, James and Hugo

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• Amelie entering 
• Amelie being very controlling - parental controls on phone etc.
• Bar tender character knowing everything
• Relationship between Louis and Amelie's character
• Conflict in Louis - whether to stay in bar or go with Amelie - apparent in walk
• Wedding in the air but it never quite happen
• Possibly the morning of the wedding but doesn't go right.

Seth, Silvana and Hugo

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• Betrayal of trust 
• People finding out
• Misunderstanding - Hugo not knowing and then calming down once understood - shift
• Introduction of Hugo's character

5 POINT PLOT IDEAS

1. Bar scene with Amelie, James, Hugo and Louis
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. All together at house party - find out all know each other

WARM UP

We did some warming up after lunch which we had planned in the previous lesson.  In our pairs we lead a warm up.  It was important to get our bodies warm and moving around as we were doing Frantic Assembly.

Seth and I lead some stretches and also used the song Roxanne by The Police.  Every time it said "Roxanne", the girls had to do a push up and every time it said "red light", the boys had to do a pushup.

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Amelie and Silvana also lead some stretches.

Hugo and Tristan made the group do push ups for 1 minute as well as sit ups for 2 minutes.

Louis and James used the song Love The Way You Lie by Rihanna and Eminem.  When Eminem was rapping, we had to hold a plank position and when Rihanna sang, we would break.

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At the end, we played a hand game where everyone lies on their stomach in a circle facing the middle with their hands in front of them.  Then everyone put their right hand over the left hand of the person to their right.  Then we would go round in a circle and everyone would tap the floor in order of the hands.  It gets very difficult because you think that your hand is next when it isn't.  Whenever someone messed up, they would have to get up and run around the circle before everyone has slapped around the circle.  If they didn't get there in time, they would have to do 10 push ups.

SWINDON 5

We tried a Frantic method from Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.  We started by having all of us walking around in a big figure of 8, trying to weave us together.  Then we added in points where we would change from walking forwards to walking backwards.  We then had Tristan in the middle who's objective was to get our attention but we didn't give it to him.  His next objective was to pick up a book from the ground but the rest of us had the objective of not letting Tristan pick it up.  This could be used in a panicky scene where the person in the centre feels like they can't get a hold of something or they're frustrated.  We also thought that this would be good in a train station, a school hallway and a busy hospital.

LIFTS

We moved on to lifts by Frantic Assembly.  The first lift we looked at was the hip lift.  One person had to have their arm around the other's waist and squat down to get their hip below the other persons.  Then they would take a step and then, with pressure applied to the hip area, would lift the other person up.

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The second lift we looked at was the clipboard lift.  One person had to squat to get their hips lower than the other persons and then the other person would put their arm over their shoulder and clamp it together.

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The last lift we looked at was the one rock lift.  There were two people standing opposite each other and one was squatted down.  Then the other would go up to them and press down on their shoulders and lift one leg up.  Everyone else would then lift the person from underneath.  The person in the air could then let go of the first person's shoulders.

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LOYALTY CHOREOGRAPHY

Using this music as a stimulus, we then had the task to create a piece about loyalty using Frantic Assembly's methods.  We could use the ones from last week as well, such as chair duets and round, by, through.
This is what we've created so far.
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