Single Drama - 13th to 16th

As a company we created the busy London street from the second half of the play (Link To It Here). The opening soundscape and the way it builds really creates the sense that Christopher have stepped out into a street and it gets busy quickly. I like that we show the harshness of the world as when the noise gets too much for Christopher and he goes into his ball, the situation only gets worse for him as the people then walk out and the audience can visually see the street so the street seems to get more crowded and Christopher has to adapt to this busy environment and move with it, but he doesn't. He freaks out and barks at a drug dealer only to be pushed around and calm down to go into the next scene.

This week we also went off script and created scenes with select characters. I was with Ellie, who plays Siobhan, we created a scene of Christopher having a counselling session with Siobhan about his mothers 'death' I feel the improvised scene went well as a short performance (Link To It Here) but i also think it helped me think how Christopher feels about his mother, especially after he thinks she is dead. I got the sense that he isn't sad about it, more trying to process what exactly happened and that it happened as Christopher isn't an emotional character he is more analytic.

This week I researched what Christopher thinks of and feels about Ed (his father) (Link To It Here)

Overall I think our performance this week looks good, I think that as everyone learns their lines and understands their characters more everything will become great not just good but I feel that's a given with every performance. I think that specifically for the work we did this week the thing we need to improve is at the end of the street movement/soundscape bit when I am pushed onto Kyle then onto Kai I feel it could look better if I'm pushed onto Kyle then after he pushes me to Kai he goes and sits down then another person takes his place to catch me and Kai sits down the someone replaces Kai and so on until everyone is sitting. I feel this will show everyone in the street ignorantly pushing me and leaving me to keep the sense of the busy street while also it will slowly thin out the number of people on stage to leave it just me and Ashley.