Pedra's Death

- sorted out scene text and have an idea of how to make each character's status through quietness and stillness. 

- we have 2 examples (on Daisy's blog) of the same scene in different tones. 

I am found as Pedra, dead on the floor after the Sonderkommando has killed me. We changed the second one to have more stillnesses and make James' speech calmer to show an inner rage that slowly builds. 

Objectives

- Sort out individual scenes

- work out what we parts of script are relevant. 

- doesn't have to be much ado 

- doesn't have to be same characters saying their script. 

- work on war crimes end scene, come up with ending and how we could create something to instigate remorse and forgiveness without taking away the seriousness of situation. 

Plan

(Been focusing on funding the past 2 lessons and been ill on Tuesday 1st April) 

Elsa is absent. 

Ideas: 

- Assigning scenes to direct to each person. 

- Going through scenes to discuss what we could do with them. 

- me doing the war crimes trial scene. 

(Natalie has a question!) 

There may be some alterations to decisions made. 

Ideas that I want to explore for war crimes trial: 

- using the black out pod as interview room. 

- having a flashback (might be a bit tricky to incooperate) 

- having franz seek remorse for his actions. 

Agenda:

Absences this week are: 

Daisy - Monday (trip) 

Me - Tuesday and Wednsday (hospital)

Elsa - Wednsday (trip)

Mandi - Wednesday (trip) 

Becs - Tuesday 

So we are planning the most effective way to arrange our meeting and pitch. 

Thursday - day of the pitch is and we shall arrange our rehearsal for the pitch at the lunch time. 

Wednsday and Friday the group are devising for our Shakespeare. 

Today's Objective

Timeline writing!

We've got a long scroll of paper, and we're highlighting and picking out key parts of our scripts. 

(We have books of Much Ado and will use them to help us familiarise ourselves with the text)

This is to help us form an idea of how our play will be set out and differentiate each scene and how it will transpose into our Auschwitz story. 

We will match up each scene with their corresponding story. 

Today's objective:

Theme of music:

Seeing as we only had an hour today to start devising and planning things, we've decided to focus on the theme of music and how that creates atmosphere. 

We looked at using Becs' use of violin - playing our song "Ah Poor Bird" and collaborating with piano and/or guitar. 

This could be used well during the scene of the Jew's being sent into the showers, creating atmosphere of irony and using music as a juxtaposing device against what is happening in the scene.

Natalie's notes (STOLEN!)

Agenda

Rehearsals

Text

Presentation

Cast list / characters

Rehearsals: 

Tuesday Presentation 

Wednesday lesson text

Wednesday afternoon presentation

Thursday lesson text

Friday lesson characters and casting

Text - if not got, need to buy and then look at text, take something from it and create an exercise (but 3 books off amazon)

Presentation carry on with individual things and bring everything in on Wednesday

Characters

Benedick - Franz

Beatrice - Helena

Claudio - Claudia

Hero - Sister 

Don Pedro - Pedra

Don Jon - Sonderkommando 

Margaret - Margo

(Transferring the much ado characters to the more suited era from which we are working)