Devising

My Role in this performance is one I enjoy but in all honesty I would've preferred a much bigger role in some aspects but from here, we get the job done and we move on the newer things.

I'm one of the youngest children in a true story carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965 which whom murdered and raped 5 children and also known as the Moors Murders. And for this role I had to have this change of both being a young child and the transition of turning that into someone who would be classified as a rapist and to be honest I didn't feel comfortable at all but if this can send a positive message that raping must stop because it destroys lives then I'll do it. Ideas I have offered is to be really sensitive and know who we target as an audience and who would find it really upsetting or hurtful. With this being tha case we made it less explicit in terms of letting the audience in on a true story and more of an unnatralistic way of performing it.

As said in previous posts we decided as a group we would be exploring a way in which we would be aware of our surroundings, especially because of the parents and children walking by. We found that bringing the audience inside the space instead of inside or at the top would break the fourth wall between us and them without fail and also would make the piece directly towards them not anyone in the outside world.

The image of the space was quite fundamental to the site as well as other things but image was key. We made this decision that the image would be the most clear out of all the other factors of our site and we decided that we would use almost every piece of prop available to us.
The sound of an occasional aeroplane flying past was used to our advantage and we were able to feed off the energy that gave us to push a true story out there with no holds barred.
We introduced the physical side of things when we came to the matter of how the couple met each other and created a short narrative story of their relationship. We included a physical piece with a set of emotions; happy at first meet and anger and jealousy near the end then having him control her and use her to take children away from their parents.
In relation the character choices we made sure each of us had a different trait in a 5/6 year old. For example, I had a toy that would march left and right, another actor had a toy movement that would have their hand moving up and down above their head and so on.