After Troy

In today's lesson we looked back over all the pictures and research we had done previously and decided on what location and time period we wanted our piece to be in. Eventually we decided on modern day and an abandoned underground station. We liked the idea of having our piece set in modern day as it makes the audience feel slightly more connected (rather than having the whole piece set in ancient Greece). However, so the audience understands where our piece was supposed to be set (to make the characters names make sense), we will have Greek graffiti on our set. The abandoned underground setting causes an uncomfortable and eerie atmosphere.

After we decided our location, we began to create our prologue. We wanted our prologue to display the carnage during the battle of Troy and the depression of the women of Troy. We wanted to show how times changed for the women during the war.


-We decided to perform our scene to 'Nightmare' by 'Avenged Sevenfold'


Our scene began with Lorna, Kat and Hope walking into the middle of the stage holding rolled up sheets (symbolising a baby).
One the first double bass trill Ollie Kelly and Charlie run to Hope and pull the sheet away from her, then on the second and third Ollie M and Lewis then James and I run in and pull the sheet away from Kat and Lorna.
The girls then separate and run towards the sides and the back of the room, the boys then use their sheets as a barrier and push the girls back into the circle in the middle of the room. We created this to give the idea of them trying to reach for their babies to save them.
To finish off the our scene we created a torture scene for the three girls whilst Lewis and James walk around trashing the room, as if they are destroying the houses of the Women of Troy.