Devising: Day 20

We needed to come up with something new today. We knew that we needed to create a scene representing what we felt a future classroom situation would be like. As Carl's character was trying to oppose the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools, we thought it best to have him as the teacher for the future scene to get a reaction out of his character in the meeting scenes. In a way, this scene would almost be used to get the others characters views across, without the need for dialogue.

We came up with an idea revolving around power and respect. Our scene involved a teacher being completely overruled and overpowered by the pupils. However, we struggled heavily trying to show this in a movement piece, which is how we decided to conduct this piece. We workshopped small ideas such as transitioning into lifts, none of which worked. Eventually we came up with this idea of puppetry almost. Which would symbolise now how teachers are almost dictated to by pupils. We had this scene where the teacher would turn and freeze. Each time one of us would turn him back to the board. Eventually, we would rise on his signal and surround the teacher. Acting out fighting movements and so on. We didn't get too far into the piece but we have a base to work with next lesson. The main issue in mind is how pupils can literally torment a teacher, yet the teacher cannot react. In a way, pupils have more power. Which is what we want to show.