Fairytale

Our first scene was born from the idea of looking at remakes of Red Riding hood to educate poeple in the huge numbers of kidnapping's and murders each year. We liked this idea of portraying horrific crime in an exaggerated melodramatic way that was more enjoyable and light hearted for an audience that will also allow us to include physical theatre. 

Being lucky enough to have a 5 hour workshop with Frantic Assembly teaching us a range of lifts, we were adament as a group we wanted to involve these in our piece. We started by writting text portraying Jon and Robert as brave knights who went on a conquest to kill a horrible creature, the over exaggeration of our voices and our movements help make the scene almost child friendly. However the scene ends with the narrator saying "and that concludes the telling of the horrific murder of two year old James Bulger" setting the scene for the rest of the piece. 

We decided to split the scene into two parts, ending the scene with Katie and Rory about to kill Abbie, using a transition we then move to the interrogation scene, the Newspaper scene, the Carosle scene and then back to the fairytale scene where this time instead of holding weapons the boys are holding roses which they drop onto a grave and repeat the quote mentioned before "I killed him, will you tell his mum I'm sorry" to help end the piece on an empathetic tone that leaves the audience to decide for themselves their emotions towards the two boys.