Friday 13th Reflection

In Friday 13th’s lesson we worked on combining techniques used by Frantic Assembly and Stafford-Clark with the central themes from Miller’s The Crucible.
To begin, we took the chair duet we had created in a previous lesson whilst learning about Frantic Assembly, and stripped it of the storyline we had created for it about toxic friendships. We then assigned characters, with Emily as a bride, Milly as mother of the bride and me as the bridesmaid. Next, we used cards to measure how excited our character was for the wedding, with 2 being the lowest level and queen being the highest. We considered using colours of the card to determine status, with red being high status and black being low status. However, we felt that the moves from our chair
The first section of the chair duet, with the bride and me, shows me trying to overtake the wedding bit by bit: moving the bride’s hand then progressing to pushing her head down. The bride then tries to regain her control over the wedding, pulling me to the side then pushing me away. At the end of the section I hold the bride’s hands, reaching after her as she spins off, to show I don’t want to lose my friend to boring married life. The second section, with the mother of the bride and me, shows me feeling repressed by the ‘controlling’ mother, demonstrated by the mother pushing down on the my hand as I try to lift it. We then fight, pushing and pulling each other with angry facial expressions, but appear united to the bride, moving in sync with idyllic, smiling facial expressions. The third section, with the bride and her mother, shows the mother trying to get involved, moving her daughter’s leg for her, but the bride doesn’t want her help and pushes her away. However, she realises she needs her mother’s help and calls her back, pulling her back round to her. At the end of the section she gently pushes her mother off, while holding hands to show that the bride has to do this by herself now, she is growing