Future school (children take over)

Today we started to try and work on a physical theatre piece set in the future where the students have become to chaotic for the teachers to control so the students have started to rebel. We started to plan out what we wanted to happen in this piece, we agreed we wanted a big physical piece for this part of our devised because we believed there is a range of possibilities we could create. We talked about who we wanted as a teacher for this piece, we didn't want to use Dan M again as we used him in our previous piece so we thought we would use Carl as he is the teacher in the meetings that favoured the future that had no improvement in punishment so we believed he would best represent the teachers in this 'out of control future'. We started with the five of us sat in a semi-circle around Carl, we started creating our piece to the song 'Arguing with themomiters (Taz Buckfaster remix)'. We started our piece by having Carl writing on the board, he then points to Kyle who walks up to him and turns him back to the bored. I them get up and walk towards Carl and repeat what Kyle did by when I do it I am more aggressive then Kyle was. This is to show the progression of the aggression from the students. Toby is the next to get up but when he does he just stands there and looks at Carl before he kicks his chair back on the drop of the music. We then talk about what we wanted to happen next, Some of us wanted to do a lift with Carl where we would smack him backwards into a lift that would send him flying across the room in slow motion. My idea was for Carl to hit and do a dead drop backwards into 2 peoples hands so that they could fling him back up into a leg lift with 3 people. We tried these two ideas but we struggled to create my idea effectively and we didn't like how the other lift looked. We then tried getting all of us up and moving one at a time towards Carl moving him into strange positions to show power ending with me retraining him. We then split into two groups, Meg and Dan M split off to create a choreographed fight between the two of them. Me, Kyle, Toby and Carl proceed to show a violent approach to Carl where i restrain him and the others take turns beating him. This was the end of the lesson today so we talked and said our objective for the next lesson is to finish what we had started today. I feel that the lesson could of gone better today as we struggled to come with an effective idea for the piece that we all agree on, next lesson we need to be more collaborative to towards each other so that we can get this piece set.