Double Performing Arts Lesson (18th January 2016)

In today's Lesson we split off into groups (James, Rhiannon and I) and (Lewis, Lorna, Olly and Charlie). Rhiannon gave us the idea of a game of Cluedo, so I took her idea and created a flow diagram for each character and the part they would play in the game. We decided to change the idea of Harlequin being killed, and we would kill Magnifico instead as no one is playing the character of Magnifico. Therefore everyone would be involved in the story line.

                                                                    Breakdown of the Court Case-
                                                                                                  Judges/Jury- The Doctor and Pantalone                       Lawyers- The Captain and Colombina                             Suspects- Zanni and Brighella
Witnesses- Harlequin
           
             The Captain
            -Defending Brighella
            -Spreading rumours (so he can have the spotlight)
            -Trying to get Zanni in trouble

             Colombina
            -Defending Zanni
            -Hated Brighella

             Harlequin
           -Claims he knows who killed Magnifico


I decided to present my ideas to the rest of the class on the white board (shown in the picture above) and people seamed to like my idea so we decided to try it out. We began creating the scene. We began with positioning we had Lewis in the Middle (As he is the most important) with Olly to the right of him (showing he is next in control) Lorna and James in line with Lewis and Olly but slightly further out., with me and Rhiannon in front of them.
We began with Lewis calling 'The Captain' forward to give his side of the story. (As I created the Captains roll to be more fictitious so he's only there for the spot light, instead of giving my side I decided to ramble on about any old nonsense (in the hopes it would get a few laughs from the audience) with Pantalone trying to get me to stop. (Saying things like "that's enough now Captain" to try and get me to stop talking) After being unsuccessful to get me to stop Pantalone eventually has to shout to get The Captain to stop (with the intention to catch the audience off guard, but produce laughs once they realise what happened).

The next part of the scene moves onto Colombina giving her side and introducing 'Harlequin' as her witness.
We were unable to continue with the scene as we were out of time. However Miss McSherry decided that we would not continue with this idea as she believed it was too static and boring and not what Commedia De'll Arte was meant to be about. Therefore we decided that for the next lesson we would use the other groups idea and see how we could expand that.