Week 5 - Devising

I have been thinking a lot about my character this week and her relationship with the rest of the character in the play. I want to be able to show clearly to the audience Bobby's love for Billy Joe and how she is getting forced to marry brother Taylor. I have linked Bobby to Juliet  from Romero and Juliet as she was also in love with someone her family didn't approve of and they were forcing her into a marriage.

We didn't do a lot on are devising this week but when we did we worked on the scene where Bobby breaks up with Billy Joe for his own good.I have to seem bitter and act as if I never did love him and as if it was all just a lie. I found this scene really hard, more because of the emotion I have to put in it. When doing a play I can normally relate it to my own experiences which will help me find the emotion but I've never broke up with a guy after being in a serious relationship with them which makes if difficult. To capture the emotion I think I'm going to have to think of something that upsets me and annoys me and put that all into. I want to make sure the audience believe me so I'm going to grab every single emotion I have at that time and show it in the scene.

I've also done some research on depression and anxiety as when we got the stimulus we said that a boy named Billy Joe commits suicide. It says that most people experience ups and downs in their life, and can feel unhappy, depressed, stressed or anxious during difficult times. This is a normal part of life. Many difficult events and experiences can leave us in low spirits or cause depression: relationship problems,bereavement, sleep problems, stressed at work, bullying, illness, and pain being just a few. But sometimes it's possible to feel down without there being an obvious reason.

Symptoms of depression can include the following:
*continuous low mood or sadness
*feeling hopeless and helpless
*having low self-esteem 
*feeling tearful
*feeling guilt-ridden
*feeling irritable and intolerant of others 
*having no motivation or interest in things
*finding it difficult to make decisions
*not getting any enjoyment out of life
*having suicidal thoughts or thoughts of harming yourself
*feeling anxious or worried

Next week I hope for our group to come up with some more scenes to link the rest of our play and hopefully have our current ones all tidy and that everyone knows what they're doing. We also need to have a few more scenes with speaking in because most of our scenes just have dancing in them. I think me and Phoebe who is the other Bobby should also think about our feelings towards the other characters so when one of us is the other ones thoughts we know what we're going to say. We could also do a monologue to help who ever is doing to thoughts so we have a clear idea.

I have started to think of the costume's we could wear for the play and I think the boys should wear white shirts with black trousers and us girls should wear flowery dresses with black leggings.