Having two Gregors and creating the insect


For our version of Metamorphosis, we have chosen to have two Gregors in order to try and express the duality of the character in the play.

Throughout, the human side of Gregor struggles with that of the bug and we get this sense that the bug is slowly taking over. At the start of the play, we wanted to show this waring between the two halves but also the ways in which they were connected through the use of contact and close fitting movements. At times, when the two Gregors are separated it is in a scene where Gregor is still human, and there the second Gregor acts of a mirror of the first within the family scene.

In order to try and create the movement for the insect side of Gregor we did some research into different types of theatre. One which particularly helped us create the movement was Push Theatre, a physical theatre group.

We experimented with its style of movement, the angular shapes it created and the ways in which we could connect ourselves together to form a larger insect. We experimented with this idea of creating the two sections of the bugs body. This did create interesting shapes and interesting movement possibilities. However, the physical strength needed to hold it was great and we would have been sacrificing the movement with our struggle to hold it up. Instead, we experimented with ways we could do a similar thing, without needing all the strength. This helped us to create the bug like shape we use in our final scene. It uses a similar ideas, but instead of hooking my legs to create a stable hold, I put my feet on the floor and crouced slightly tilted backward, allowing me to put all the weight in my legs, leaving my hands free to act as the front legs of the bug.

 

 

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