Research now more than ever plays a crucial part in our piece, the amount of knowledge and understanding we have gathered by carefully reading and analysing what we have found on the event has created our piece. Below are some link of work and research we have looked at to help inspire our piece:
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/may/06/monsters-james-bulger-arcola-niklas-radstrom - this allowed us to see the interpretation of the play 'Monsters' from the playwright's point of view.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/young/bulger/5.html - the novel allowed us to get most of our quotes to make our piece as realistic as possible.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Monsters-Radstrom-Nikla-NEW-Paperback-1-May-2009-/361078121450?pt=Non_Fiction&hash=item5411eee3ea - a link to the play (available to buy)
Series of links used for verbatim and backgrounds for our scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u9pIf04l2U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm5w7tdTmvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0OLg7OrLKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upiTb6ZfJa0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0FSkEVWOo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfWWKot2qUY
News articles:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/james-bulger-murder-20-years-1594811
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254971/James-Bulger-Jon-Venables-Robert-Thompson-kidnapping-timeline.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273769/Jon-Venables-lawyer-recalls-killers-angelic-face-James-Bulgers-brutal-murder.html
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Thursday, 18 December 2014
The Idea
After looking at 'Monsters' last lesson it was clear to the group that the play had sparked the most interest out of the workshops we had looked at. We decided to research for the event for verbatim, news articles, interviews, book articles and anything else we could find to broaden our knowledge on an event that happened before any of us were born. The information we turned up was shocking but also engrossing and interesting in the same way.
As a group we decided it would be interesting to look at the idea of starting our piece with a Fairy-tale scene that would confuse and sugar coat the event. We wanted to retell the event using Knight's and Witches, to make the 10 year old boys seem as if they were saving "a far away village" and then at the end of the scene drop upon them the fact they had just watched a retelling of the brutal murder of 2 year old James Bugler.
We started by playing the roles of narrators writing a script that without too much context would be suitable and funny for an audience of 6 year olds, but due to the deeper underlying narrative would have a much more shocking event on the audience. (The finished narration can be seen to the side.)
We decided we wanted the scene to be told with elements of physical theatre to make the violence stand out more and therefore make the Knights seem more 'noble' and 'brave. However when it came to actioning this we had many problems as our knowledge of physical theatre wasn't very extensive.
As a group we decided it would be interesting to look at the idea of starting our piece with a Fairy-tale scene that would confuse and sugar coat the event. We wanted to retell the event using Knight's and Witches, to make the 10 year old boys seem as if they were saving "a far away village" and then at the end of the scene drop upon them the fact they had just watched a retelling of the brutal murder of 2 year old James Bugler. We started by playing the roles of narrators writing a script that without too much context would be suitable and funny for an audience of 6 year olds, but due to the deeper underlying narrative would have a much more shocking event on the audience. (The finished narration can be seen to the side.)
We decided we wanted the scene to be told with elements of physical theatre to make the violence stand out more and therefore make the Knights seem more 'noble' and 'brave. However when it came to actioning this we had many problems as our knowledge of physical theatre wasn't very extensive.
Monday, 23 June 2014
Frantic Assembly
Frantic Assembly creates thrilling, energetic and unforgettable theatre. The company aims to attract new and young audiences with work that is modern. Frantic Assembly's unique physical style combines movement, design, music and text.
Frantic Assembly is lead by director Scott Graham. Scott created the company with Steven Hoggett and Vicki Middleton in 1994 and strives to collaborate with many of today's most inspiring artists. Frantic Assembly has built a strong reputation as one of the most exciting companies in the country. The company has also performed, created and collaborated in 30 different countries across the world.
Frantic Assembly is lead by director Scott Graham. Scott created the company with Steven Hoggett and Vicki Middleton in 1994 and strives to collaborate with many of today's most inspiring artists. Frantic Assembly has built a strong reputation as one of the most exciting companies in the country. The company has also performed, created and collaborated in 30 different countries across the world.
"It's really hard to shock and surprise a theatre audience these days. Unless you are in the gifted hands of Frantic Assemby"The idea of Physical Theatre really appeals to me for our given Unit 3 theme "Conflict." As Physical Theatre is very energetic and unforgettable it achieves the dramatic side you expect to see when you think of conflict.
"A play that will stay in your head and your heart long after the curtain comes down, due to it's originality"
Western Morning News
Choreography for the "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time"
Frantic Assembly will be beneficial for us as a group when thinking about devising a piece of work with the stimulus "Conflict" in mind. We as a drama group were lucky enough to see their performance of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time" their stunning use of portraying emotions through movement created a very memorable capturing piece of work. To use something similar to this in our own work would hopefully allow us to create similar tones for the audience maybe in a more striking way when using it to portray conflict.
The "franticness" of it (excuse the pun) could make the audience feel very on edge if the conflict was something they could relate too as some of the movements are so difficult to keep track off the audience could almost end up feeling very involved in a performance.
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