PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP (ISLANDS)

Caroline Horton's 'Islands', Bush Theatre Company

Today we worked on Islands by Caroline Horton. We had to perform a minute of our scenes to showcase to the class and take their feedback on board to help us produce our scenes.

This is our feedback:

- To push the archetypes and the characters.
- To focus more on the scene with the tax evasion with Luke as the Tax Collector.
- To maybe add a moment of song (which we decided to be MONEY MONEY MONEY BY ABBA)
- To have a think about costumes that fit the idea of an island.
- Beginning scene was confusing and didn't make much sense to the whole performance.

Taking this feedback on board, we scrapped the beginning scene and pushed the tax collection scene to the end of the performance and made this the main focus of the whole piece. This was done as we felt that the scene had much more potential than the others we created.

However, our rehearsal day didn't go to plan. We were constantly battling with half of our group being missing, meaning we were restricted as to what we could devise as the scene centres around Luke as the Tax Collector. And we were also finding the whole rehearsal process very  tedious and stressful.

By the end of the day we had created no more than half a minutes worth of performance with a creative block on how to move forward.

We did however agree on costume. I shall wear a Starbucks costume to push the physical comedy of the big businesses avoiding tax.

Storyboard

Later on in the day, Jamie and I created a ten step storyboard for  everyone to follow in our group, that way we all know what is going on. Other members of our group were dazed as to what came next after each transition and we needed them to be as on the ball as possible so we create this so that everyone was on the same page.