Work and Emily Scene Revision


Emily Negative

Previously we had only worked with improvising for this scene, so whilst we had some key movements we didn’t really have an understanding of the flow of the conversation. Therefore we decided it would be important to define some set phases of the scenes development for each of the characters.

 
Emily
Jack
Stage One
Upset
Stress
Stage Two
Avoid
Anger
Stage Three
Anger
Ignore

 

These helped to us to concentrate more on the accurateness of gesture of the mask style, by providing markers to hit throughout the scene. In some ways this reflects some of the things we learnt when looking at the commedia style. In commedia, much of the work is improvised, but small moments and ideas such as gimmies and tricks are already pre-set. In this case each of our stages was an example of on objective which we would have to switch to at different points of the stage. Furthermore, we also introduced a few trick like moments, for example a moment when Jack put his hand on Emily’s as well as the moment when he grabbed her arm.

Work Negative

We lengthened the time it takes for Jack to enter in the second work scene, introducing moments when the Boss asks the other workers where Jack is. We thought that this would, on the one hand, make it so that even the audience were waiting for Jack, and therefore prevent them from having an overly sympathetic view of Jack. We decided as a group that it was important for the audience to be able to emphasise with Jack and the psychological difficulties he must be facing alongside the negative scenes. But also that this should not allow his behaviour to be perceived as acceptable, and prevent audience from acknowledging that Jacks actions should be corrected. Furthermore, we wanted to contrast the workers precise movements with Jacks in order to show how his life is starting to break down. We chose to make Jacks movements clumsy and rushed, reflecting how he is struggling to keep up with the other workers.  Finally we used the rule of three that we learnt during our commedia work, trying to build up Jacks irritation whilst the Boss asks if he’s okay. This ends with Jack not hurting but lashing out in a way that is definitely not socially acceptable. We tried to emphasise this by making the other workers stand, moving from the busy work scene to the sudden silence- everyone’s focus on Jack.

                                                                                                                                    

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