Theatre Workshop -29/01/18


Theatre Workshop -29/01/18

We began the day by returning to the 'shoal of fish' exercise and working in unison as a team, but this time when we were playing with the pillows we were improvising movements with the idea of sleep and a sleepless night filled with nightmares and uneasiness. During this exercise the song 'How do you sleep' by LCD sound system was playing to help us surrender ourselves and be fully committed to the action we doing. When the music started speeding up the entire company started creating really violent movements together like hitting the floors with our pillows and screaming. I personally found it intriguing how our subconscious and dreams are mainly linked with violence and fear, but i also felt like this exercise showed the vulnerable side of everyone in the class as we allowed our weaknesses to be shown. This violent movement allowed me to see that every single person has a violent side to them whether they display or not. In the exercise it was one person who would start of the movement and if we liked it we would all join in, i found it interesting how this one persons anger and fear rubbed off on all of us, sort of conveying how a persons anger can affect everyone around them. 

In the next exercise as a company we were told to create a beautiful, sacred cathedral using just our bodies, but also without communicating to each-other about where to go or what shape to make. We managed to create this building very quickly and effectively allowing me to see the strong bond that we created. After this cathedral was built we were told that the building was going to be destroyed by bombs and we had to create a soundscape so that included,screaming and coughing. I thought that this exercise was effective as it showed me that something beautiful can always turn ugly, no matter it importance or wealth. But it also displayed that everything beautiful also has an ugly side whether you can see it or not. 


After that we completed an exercise called "mummy help me" I thought that this was the most emotional exercise we did and it really showed our innocence and the need for someone we love. In this exercise one of us had to go in the middle and shout "mummy help me" like something was happening and we need help. The person that did this was Max he was calling his mum out to help him with school and all his troubled and it just made me feel so emotional. This exercise really allowed us to connect with our parents and realise that no matte how old we get we will always need them in our lives. 








  


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