After learning what we had about the mother's last lesson we knew it was an important character to have, we swapped the attorney for one character who would change their body language to adapt to one of the mums. We then began to script write. We knew from prior results that using verbatim and research would produce the most effective scene so taking lines from both 'Monsters' and the novel we began to re write the scene keeping only the staging. The result shown below was much more heart wrenching and the portrayal of the boys attitudes and behaviour was much more realistic. We also decided to add in a flash back, showing a short scene of Robert persuading Jon to throw a brick at the "baby" as Robert was named the more "manipulative" of the two. After we'd added a sound scape to the scene with a nursery rhyme, and the screaming of James we were happy with the scene.
The sensitive portrayal of the story is the most important factor of our piece. As a group we wish to educate the audience of the horrific event and to tell it with the up most respect we possibly can as we understand that Robert, Jon and James were all children, friends and family to someone.
You are almost there in terms of your aims for the performance Kennedy. Why is it important to you that the audience understand that Robert and Jon were children? Is repentance, forgiveness and rehabilitation what you are trying to say to your audience?
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