Aim:
To keep choreograph fresh from unit 3 and to bridge unit 3 to when the beast is to trap father in unit 4. The group are yet to work on how the beast traps the father exactly but hope to form a plot and feel for the scene by the end of the session.
*warm up with the Sam*
Recap:
The cast re-practice the backdrop to Father's office with the choreography of the busy office. Father is in the office working hard. Belle cries for her father.
Recapping the choreography:
(*video to be inserted here next week* to keep fresh)
The cast run over the dance as a whole while Pete tries the father's monologue with strong sticarto lines over the top. Pete then begins to embed the monologue by moving through the dance group.
*short cool down break to bring the energy levels away from the busy office *
Mapping out of Unit Four; Just to recap the unit, here is what the Iumentum has set so far:
A.At home, his daughter cries harder.
B.Beast captures Father
Beast has sets his trap and waits in a dark area for the inevitable to happen. You see a slight hint of pride in Beast, this is his plan and its working. A Flawless creation in his eyes.A dark alley. A quiet time. A hunt. He will not be seen. He will capture his victim, take them home and then play the good Samaritan in the aftermath. He will look after the stranger. He will make them well. He will make them his best friend or they will pay for his aid.
This time, the stranger is Father. It is late at night. Father has been working hard. He is tired, unaware of quiet signals all around him.
Beast did not know who to expect, only that there would be someone to expect. He does not care for the gender, race or class of the victim, he only thinks of them as prey. We see Beast’s animalistic traits.
Development of Unit Four in session:
A.'At home, his daughter cries harder' bridges units three and four. The group brainstorm and discussing the feel of the scene. Belle cries harder as the office scene melts away. The office leaves slowly and the scene ends with the father staying late at work and Belle crying.
B. The plot begins to be outlined by the cast: Beast is praying on father is the key of the scene as the tension builds. Group suggestions are building vocals to emphasise tension. Father continues to work alone and then decided to go home as he has to be back early in the morning. The Father goes to the car park, he is distracted and unaware of his surroundings (fiddles with keys and is on the phone). Beast is preying in the car park in a 'film noire' style. The cast suggest spot lighting the farther in a pool of light. this scene is from the Beast's perspective as Farther is unaware. He is hungry to capture, to be nurtured and is slowly creeping towards his victim. Reference to Little Shop of Horror's 'itssupper time' scene. The scene is to have strong vocal build up. The Beast is to climb on the back of father and display putting chloroform in a cloth over Father's mouth. The next scene will show Father waking up in the Beast's care.
Lyrical building exercise:
The group decide to split off into small groups in order to pick key words for the vocal build up in the scene. When the group rejoin they bring together a collection of hard hitting words and references to reflect the adrenaline building in scene that the father is being preyed upon.
Words, thought and feelings suggested are:
Sam suggests a Philip Larkin poem called 'For Sidney Bechet' which shares a fetish love feel to it; a sick and twisted affirmation. The line highlighted is
''On me your voice falls as they say love should,
Like an enormous yes.''
Words drawn on were: 'Mime, tick-tock, possession, film void, step in time, next in line, you will be mine, caged, be my friend, not long now. Its cold, its dark, its late, you're tired. Take my hand, let me help you, let me hold you, let me keep you, under your skin, I want to be in your heart, in your mind, running through your veins and in your blood.'
Feelings drawn upon were of the beast wanting to rear the human. The scene having an adrenaline rush feel whilst everything slows down and the vocals form almost a twisted love poem. There has been discussion of the beast waiting, wanting, longing for the next in line.
Reference to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein: ''I desire the company of a man who can sympathise with me; whose eyes reply to mine''. (Please click here should you want to read the page that this line comes from. Please look under 'letter 2' to find the line)
Next Tuesday's aim:
To revisit the lyrical and vocal build up in Unit 4. The group hope to then crack onto Unit 5 where the Beast has the father in his capture.
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