I found this and was wondering what people think? It is just a seven minute free write. I thought we could try freewriting our own poetry after workshopping a scene, then give them to kelsie(I am so sorry if i spelt your name wrong) to help with script. Personally this poem hits me as being from Father's perspective, after Mother had gone or even after he had given Belle to Beast. The last stanza really stays with me, as if he has nothing left and is contemplating suicide. I don't find all of it relevant, but each time i read it I see more. What do you all see? What I do not See Everyone tells me to smile and that I've such a beautiful heart. But I think that it's a broken and totally useless part. How can I be so easily cast away when so many say I'm wonderful? They say someone would be lucky to have me ...then why give me pain unimaginable? I've tried to figure this all out and try to figure how hearts work. Because mine seems like a divining rod and can locate any hidden jerk. Every night, I write of my pain to purge it from muse's mind. Sometimes I feel as though I'm writing devil's contract and will lose my soul when poem's signed. I plead to world and to God to cease this pain - I'm not strong enough to bear the weight of the world upon me and cannot love what just is not there. ©January 21, 2006 Lori S. Maynard 7 minute free write time written: 10:25-10:32 p.m.

Big White Room

This song was wrote and performed by one of my good friends Jessie. Listening to the lyrics made me think about how lost inside his own mind Beast is. Thinking about these words in that context has helped me to have an insight to how crazy and mad he must be inside his own head, and how he can not escape who he is. He can not be fixed.
Let me know what you think.

Unit two writing

This is what I wrote in rehearsal last week for Beast's monologue in unit two. I have developed it a little further since.

I see you in the street as you pass me by and in those five seconds you wasted on a mundane thought, In my mind I have shared a drink with you, shared a meal with you, I have even shared a lifetime with you. You all move around like pawns on a chessboard. Your eyes are gifts from god that you fail to use. Instead you choose to stare at the floor. You need a friend. You need me.

Relationship

Obviously we haven't really began to touch on the relationship between Belle and Beast, but when I heard this song I really felt like in ways it really related to Beast's situation.

It's by a Swedish band called Tiger Lou and I felt some of the lyrics and also the simplicity of the song as a whole reflected some of the things that could be present in Beast's mind.

Just thought I'd post it and see what you guys thought anyways.

Traces

These are a couple of pictures taken from an exhibition my sister did entitled 'To live is to leave traces'.

The first is of cake crumbs and the second of an imprinted bed sheet.

I thought these gave life to the images we discussed in rehearsal.

Welcome

Hey everyone,

Welcome to your up and running blog. I don't have much material to post so I'll leave it to you, maybe someone wants to start by posting the unit descriptions and you can go on from there. Once I get everything together I'll get a lot more up.