New idea for showcase

Last lesson we had to come up with a completely new and original idea. We brainstormed various ideas but decided to take an idea about the 9 11 attacks. Our idea was that the 9 11 attacks sent New York into disarray with the whole town being crime infested, with rioters, thieves, murderers and drug addicts. Everybody wants the Presidents head for not protecting their country from the terrorist attacks. Gangs and groups fight between themselves as the once magical city of New York sinks to the floor turning into a post apocolyptic death trap. However, within the violence and savagness of New York a highly trained police force strive for justice and to protect the President, sadly, the task they are given is impossible. Outnumbered, they struggle to cope with the crime rates and injustice. But the worst is yet to come.

Techniques: We decided that we could use a range of theatrical techniques such as: Monologues, Contemporary dance, Split screen, Freeze frames and split roles.

More ideas for showcase

I'm liking the Victorian aspect so far, I feel that there is so much we can do with this topic and we can go anyway with it. Ideally, whatever group im in, we should try to complete a scene without any deaths, dying gets very boring eventually and is an easy way to end things. Instead we could have an arrest or some dramatic ending of escape for whatever story we are doing. Hopefully we can incorporate some kind of contempary dance as well to a story of the becoming of the Grim Reaper or a twist (see what I did there!) on a Charles Dickens novel.

Contempary Dance/Movement

Todays lesson began with the whoile class watching a scene of the 6th formers performance "What If." We focused on how they used movement to create some very powerful effects to the song "We Are Broken." by Paramore. 

Our task was to create a scene using stylisic movement to the same song within our groups. As a group we decided to stay on the topic of Victorian England and our Sweeney Todd/Jack Ripper characters from last Thursday. 

We felt that a backing story of why Sweeney Todd became so bloodthirsty would fit the bill perfectly, so we read into the story of Sweeney Todd. Our piece begins with Sweeney walking along happily with his wife and child. When the intro to the music is over The Judge storms on, followed  by his two masked assistants. Sweeney and The Judge confront each other, before his wife and child are taken away from him. Sweeney tries to fight back, but The Judge is too powerful and pushes him down onto the floor.

The distraught Sweeney seeks solace in a homeless man, "Mr Somes." Who he befriends as his assistant at the local barbers. Mr Somes lures various people into the shop, even those who try to move on. We used a slow feel to the luring in of the first character, with Mr Somes slowly spinning the victim around.

After Sweeney has killed his victim The Judge, followed by one of his assistants, is approached by Mr Somes. The assistant blocks Mr Somes off at first but The Judge tells him to back down where he is eventually led into Sweeneys barbers. The Judge is greeted by an empty room at first until Sweeney appears from around the corner. The Judge is startled and tries to make a run for it, however Mr Somes blocks his way. The three of them struggle with each other before The Judge is tied to the chair. Sweeney takes his revenge upon The Judge, who lays there motionless, with a cascade of blood rolling down his neck. Sweeney's rage takes over as he stabs The Judge and throws him to the floor.

Showcase idea 3

I feel as I have already thought up two darker, more serious ideas a little sketch in the showcase may be necessary. A comedy idea may include a spoof of a popular movie like Lord of the Rings or something. Alternatively, a more original idea could be drunk rockstars waking up in the morning after a heavy night of drinking and so on. I know its not much but is a good start considering this idea was first thought up on the geography trip.
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Another idea for a showcase could possibly be a good old vampire story. was watching some vampire investigation thing on Nat Geo so I thought a story of 16th century vampire hunters could be confronted by a vampire digging up a grave but never really get enough evidence and are cast out as mad men. Just a little something !!!

Showcase Ideas

My first idea is one similar to what my group performed on Thursday. The story where the alcoholic re tells his story to a councelling group and the story is acted out by other actors. I feel that if we could make it a bit deeper, realistic and a lot less violent this piece would be reasonably successful. It used a range of techniques such as monologues, slow motion, physical theatre and maybe we could incorporate some sort of freeze frame. Ideally I would like to use lighting and music to really create a depressing atmosphere. Possibly Things We Lost in the Fire, referring to the death of the alcoholics brother, being killed by a gun fire. Alternatively we could use Winter, by Daughter as the harssh atmosphere really portrays a harsh winters evening.

In fact, we could just remake Avatar!