Dr Faustus

In today's lesson we began to work on the physical theater side of our Faustus unit. We began by working on the '7 deadly sins'. We began by setting our scene, we decided we wanted to have our staging in traverse (like a catwalk). We decided on this staging as we had never tried it before and thought it would work well with our physical theater ideas.
We decided that we wanted Ollie (Faustus) at one end of the traverse watching TV, and we decided to set our deadly sins out like TV ads luring Faustus in. We agreed on breaking each sin down and saying parts of each rather than each person having a sin, as we have 7 sins and 6 actors (excluding Faustus) therefore to make it fair we shared the lines equally.

Our 7 deadly sins include:

• Pride 
• Envy
• Wrath 
• Gluttony 
• Lust
• Sloth 
• Greed

We began with sloth (as it was the first one that came up in the script). We decided to research 'sloth' to find out exactly what it was, so we could act out the exact style of sloth. We found out it was based on laziness. Therefore we agreed on laying on each other, and every time someone speaks, we all move to a new position on the floor 

We began to consider transitions between our deadly sins. Our second sin is gluttony, we decided to have Mephistopheles circling us with food,tempting us to take food )like Gluttony), at this point we would all leap up from our places on the floor and take a piece of food from the bucket and take it away and scoff it. We decided unless we were speaking we would be walking around the stage still eating our food moving like our bodies are so heavy.