25th September

-start to work on characters –focus on their physicality, the way they move/hold themselves

·         Crawling?

·         Crouching, suspicious movement, back against the wall

·         Gets lost>oversized map>sits down with audience, bored, falls asleep/bites nails/talks to person beside them???>>gets noticed by another character and dragged away

·         large cartoon-like steps

-news documentary –mug shots [pulling funny face, looking slightly confused/afraid, grinning ridiculously], CCTV footage [hoods]

                Character IDEAS:

·         twitch/character trait: rubbing eye/nose

·         says whatever she’s thinking

·         crouching/jumping around>very energetic/excited

·         enthusiastic as part of gang, relating to robbery, but doesn’t understand or help with much of the plan

·         crayon [writes name on everything?]

·         gets quite close to others randomly, like slinging arm over their shoulder, staring??

·         sings randomly?

·         wears bright or really obvious clothing for the robbery>really dumb

·         sucks thumb?

·         The really sweet and endearing character, partly because of her stupidity and inability to do anything helpful

·         walks into things/gets lost/trips over frequently

·         lives with mum or dad??

·         slightly asexual, innocent mind

·         cleaning job at Sainsbury’s >met leader of gang

24th September

-homework was to think about characters we might play –old woman/psychotic idiot??

-hot-seating to develop characters:

·         Elizabeth-serious leader

·         Pia-grandmother

·         Taylor-pregnant grandchild

·         Me-psychotic/idiotic one >>Georgie, 20, lives with dad, no job, needs to get a job to get own place, plays video games, wants to join army [doesn’t know much about that], stupid, bad school grades,

-nervous twitch/character trait –rubbing eye/nose/face/fingers?

-stupid in a funny way, says idiotic things<<Brittany from Glee

18th September

Robbery-

Created some characters:
-wanted really stereotypical, hilarious characters
-would be good with an old woman who smokes a lot, thinks she's younger than she really is
-a woman with a young child, or a pregnant girl would have comedic value; can't do as much physically as the others
-some kind of stupid or crazy character to have an extreme viewpoint
-slightly more serious leader, but has bad ideas so none ofthem are really clever or cut out for a successful robbery.
-someone who is not in the gang, an intruder, a policeman... , someone who infiltrates their plan

Characters:           -dopey one [grandchild?]

                                -psychotic one

                                -grandmother [old woman, keen/enthusiastic, bad back, drunk?]

                                -serious leader [original idea?]

                                -intruder -clever one [phone call to tip off the victims]

-planning a robbery together of money/object/getting something back that belongs to them?, practice taking hostages etc. with audience, leave with really bad plan[funny]>turn on audience,

Political Protest-

-group of people linked by their hate/anger towards an organisation/group [government, political party?], protesting their anger/their rights

-anger at unemployment? –meet at job centre,

Development from initial material:

-New York -9/11

-plane hijackers, bad unexpected situation, 'secrets'<>theme of piece of theatre,

Comedy because: -different way of expressing the unexpected side, different way to look at the situation, exploring the comedic side of really terrible criminals –bad at being bad,

-criminals, planning a crime, secret, unexpected by the victims, family unaware?,