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1.      This week in class we looked over our opening for curious and as a group we decided to redo the opening. We first struggled to come up with a new idea for the opening but we then spilt into 3 groups who each managed to come up with a new opening for the show. Group 1 came up with a choreographed a danced that was exactly in time with each other and consistent with the beat of the song we had been given. This was to show Christopher’s head and how everything is perfect and thought out. Group 2 showed a creative approach with their idea of having us circle around Christopher, then go in towards him and the spread out in to a circle at first then go back in and come out as a triangle. This was repeated with different shapes which were to show Christopher’s love of maths. Group 3 came up with an idea of two separate groups on opposite ends to Christopher, who is in the middle. Each group would rotate around Christopher in the shape of a square keeping at opposite ends to Christopher, at the ends the 2 groups merge around Christopher and become one giant clump. Every idea was good but in the end we were able to make a new piece by combining the 3. It starts with us in a group that then starts the choreographed movement which leads us to split and go to the opposite ends and walk around the edge of the stage area which leads us back into the centre and shuffle into a big group. This group then spreads out into a circle, we then swap places with another person and make a triangle, we repeat this and make a square. We then go into the centre where Christopher screams and we all fall to the ground and start our number sequences.

2.      Linking back to how we remade the opening I found that separate collaboration in groups can make a production go further and create a great piece of drama work. I found this very useful as normally in one big group there’s a lot of debate and arguing about ideas that only comes out with answer which means other good ideas are ignored. By separating we were able to come up with more ideas and present them which also helped people understand your idea. Then by talking about all the ideas there can be a compromise in the piece amongst everyone as a bit of everything can go into it. This has helped me as an actor as i already knew that there should be team work and everyone has good ideas but I have now learned that everything we work on separately can now become a bigger and better idea.

3.      I did a look into the national theatres performance of curious incident and found this trailer for the show www.youtube.com/watch?v=O704ld5WQnk. I watch several of the scenes for curious incident like the Swindon train station scene www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPqpIcCE9t0. I liked looking at this as it showed me differences in how we have performed are pieces and how they have done there’s with a bigger cast as well as their skill set. Looking at this piece I see how as a company they made some of the lines comedic to entertain the audiences, unlike us as we’ve gone for a more serious approach to the story.

4.      This week are strengths were worked better as a team as we were able to get through more of the show this week and in a quicker time as the week before we got through act one in about 1 hour and 20 minutes but this week, it only took us a hour which also shows that we have memorised what we are doing. We also showed strength in working on select pieces as we redid a couple of our movement pieces and collaborated well on improving or remaking the scenes. Are weaknesses this week is knowledge of are lines as act 1 can still be shorter if we stop stopping and having to think of our line.

5.      For developing the production further I would of liked to be able to do costume changes as it would help create and visualise our characters, another thing is that it’s annoying that we have to sit with audiences as this can limit us in having props as we have to sit with them which does mean there is amount of props we can have on us. I think we could have developed our production as a whole if we had these factor involved we could do more as we could create a better atmosphere and serounding for the scnes.