Curious Incident Day Seven/Eight

Today in rehearsals we worked on more physical theatre. We began to go though act 2, again contributing with ideas of how we could stage certain scenes. One particular scene required us creating Swindon. I suggested to create a roundabout, as there are many roundabouts in Swindon and should anyone from Swindon read this blog, feel free to post a picture of one on here. We made this roundabout by pacing 5 people as a core with other people acting as traffic around the roundabout. We then dispersed into a train station, creating lampposts and clocks by lifting people on shoulders and so on. Then, created a scene on a train where we created a rhythm during the course of the journey to represent the logical thinking of Christopher, before finishing in our London train station created a few days back. We then moved onto considering how characters are portrayed and seen as from the classes perspective. We brainstormed ideas on Christopher, Mr Alexander, Siobhan and Roger, considering their characters and relationships with other characters.

On day eight we began a group discussion on why we felt particular ways about certain characters and really dug deep into possible meanings for characters personalities and why they behave the way they are and relationships they have with others as well as how they would react in certain situations. We then decided to start from where we left off from the day before. This time our main creation was the tube station, where we lined up horizontally, acting as casual as possible, before reacting when Christopher decides to get onto the tacks. To make the scene realistic, we all had to react in a shocked way to bring the scene to life. Before carrying on with the act, making sure we knew what we wee doing and at what time.