Rehearsal Session Three

This session we began to further expand the narrative of our piece and what we could use to make the performance complete.

Performance Styles:

We firstly decided to perform what we had so far to see where to carry on from, we decided to create a scene between the bar and the police to make it flow better. We began thinking about using arm movement to create a slowed down choreographed fight, this then gave us reason to have the men arrested.

The police scene focuses on the issue of police brutality and breach of trust, we use this by working with the idea of a police officer undressing and violating the people that have been arrested, leaving them scared and vulnerable. To move forward from this scene Joel, Will and Sam had to get back to sitting on the bench without moving from the bench or using their arms, this was funny to begin with and it didn't exactly work however after some time it began to reflect on them being restricted an unable to do a simple task because  of what the police officer (Louise) had done to them.

When they had returned to their seated positions they sat casually as if nothing had happened. Louise then returned as a customer of a barber shop, this idea came from a simple conversation of the cost difference between a barber and a hair salon. This then led to Louise being treated like a man having a haircut and shave with the men around her talking about the price of haircuts between men and women as ‘hairdressers will still charge you considerably more for a cut, just because you’re female. At national salon chain Toni & Guy, for example, men’s hair services are £10 less across the board. At HOB salons, the price gap is even wider. A cut and finish is £50 for female customers, £18 more than the male price’ Carey, T (2015).

The targets for next rehearsal session:

·         To find a suitable ending for the piece

·         Have a dress run with both props and tech.

Tanith Carey (2015) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2959383/Why-expensive-woman-called-pink-tax-women-pay-men-dry-cleaning-razors.html#ixzz485aNHwzB  (Accessed: 06/05/2016)