Originally we started out by creating up to the scene where to goat gets kicked out of the old tailors home, we did this by using low comedy (refer back to unit 1, page 5, techniques) to entertain our demographic (refer back to unit 2, audience).
We also used physical theatre (refer back to unit 1, page 25, techniques) to make building and scenarios with our bodies, and further adding to that we used aspects of epic theatre. Epic theatre is when you break the fourth wall, breaking the forth wall is the act of speaking directly to the audience, we also got the audience directly involved in our play by making the goat graze and eat the audience’s hair and cosmetics.
We did a lot of research involving 3 brothers during Nazi Germany and how they lived and died, we used all of this information we gathered to further expand and improve the 3 brothers in our play. We did a good amount of research on the elephant man, which was one of the first people to be severely deformed and judged by his appearance, and how i could apply that to my character ‘the landlord’, we researched this and I’ve applied this to make the audience feel sorry for my character but at the exactly the same time hate him because he is a thief, he steals the magical treasures from the brothers out of envy and for personal gain. The way I would apply this to my character is by using Theatre of the grotesque (refer to unit 1, page 8, techniques). In this case id lead with my head and right shoulder to really show the fact that the landlord is deformed to the audience, the landlord isn’t deformed, or if he is we’re not told about it in the given circumstance’s (refer to unit 1, page 7, techniques) however I used magic if (refer to unit 1, page 4, techniques) to imagine what he would act like and how he’d move around if he was deformed. I did this to make the audience feel sorry for the landlord but also feel mad at him for being a thief and stealing the magic gifts.
We have also used our resonators (refer to unit 1, page 12, techniques) to further personalize our characters and make them our own, for example with the 3 brothers they are slightly using their chest resonator to get that feeling of ‘ they are quite strong and brave ‘ but not so much so that they sound like middle-aged men, for the father he uses a chest resonator to show he is a proud, loving father, and the goat as well as the landlord will use more of a nasal resonator to sound more sly and conniving and so the audience know they are not good/nice characters.
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