Lesson 2

Today we began devising the play, we started the rehearsal with the side stretch exercise which warmed everyone up and immersed them into the space. We were told that the opening part of the play was going to be some kind of haka dance, a traditional war dance.

Firstly Ben showed us videos of the haka dance so we had a better understanding of the energy it was supposed to have.

 We then started devising the piece by starting off of the floor, dead like maggots. When the beat is on the 2nd beat ( there will be a drum) we move coming slowly to life. Starting with only our backs moving and then our legs and finally the arms. Once we are all moving on the floor lavina will lift people out slowly, the Goths (such as my character) can get up without lavina pulling the up. 

lavinia then goes onto the podium and starts her speech. 

when she stops talking we surround Katie (Titus) in a circle and she shouts 'he' when she finishes we go down and also sound 'hee' (in a shout) we then break off into a 'v' shape like how our set will be and as the new theatre is a 3 sided space. 

We then perform the haka dance that ben taught us.

During the show whilst the audience are coming on we will all already be on stage on the floor ready to start the play like that. i think this is a good thing as it creates a good atmosphere for the audience to come into and will have the instantly brought into the world of the play. The haka shows our 'inner warrior' and since Titus is very much about aggression and violence i think this is a good link to the play.

i feel like we need to develop the transitions and add in more movement detail but having blocked it is a good start to devising the play.

these are our postions for the beggining of the play