More Devising

Today, we ran what we already had, to make sure it all still worked well and effectively referred back to our site. We then devised and ran the ideas that we had last week to see if they worked in our site, because we had only spoken about them inside last week. We then figured out the ending to our piece and decided that after Alex does a police interview with Raphy, we should have Sarah and Raphy's section of contact improvisation to portray Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's relationship, the people who were playing the children and had their hands on the hand prints on the wall, would slowly turn round and walk towards Raphy and Sarah and hold hands and walk in a circle around them while singing, "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" this further tied into our theme of children and nicely links into our stimulus, as it gives the piece a sort of creepy tone.

We then decided to incorporate a bit into our piece, where the children seem happy to be going off with Brady and Hindley, so after we stop singing, we stand still and Raphy and Sarah tell each other they love them. We then all held hands and ran up the stairs giggling and laughing. We decided this would make the audience think about the fact that we wanted to go with them and thought it was all fun and games. We then included a section where Emily becomes a news reporter and describes that several children have been taken. While Sarah and Raphy run off to the side and "the children" stay looking down onto the audience and each have a line to say e.g. "I'm scared.", "I don't want to.", "Mummy, help me." etc. we start whispering these lines and as Emily is talking, we get louder and louder, until we're shouting. Then when Emily shouts, "Keep your kids indoors." we go silent.

We thought this would be a really effective ending to our piece and give it a little more depth as it really looks into our stimulus and uses a lot of inspiration and other aspects of the site. We spoke to Emma for a bit when we went inside to brainstorm even more ideas and had a conversation about our stimulus and whether we have got everything out of the site. I think we have done really well with using the space around us and it will look a lot more effective when we have the audience walking around us. We then made the important observation that as well as our work being site specific, it is also site responsive because we have worked well incorporating the different elements of our site into our piece.