New Ideas

In todays lesson my group did no practical work, we sat down as a group and discussed the existing ideas we had, we then tried to come up with new ideas of develop older ones. I came up with the idea that we could use the gang story with the love story entwined into that but have a more sinister atmosphere to it that was quite outside the box, I decided it might be good if we started with a silhouette of someone hanging themselves and then we went into the story of how this happened, I thought it would be better to not reveal who kills themselves at the start of the play and create some mystery and engage the audience immediately, the story is there was a sort of author/ puppeteer controlling these characters and stories as he has someone above him that is controlling him, the story the author is trying to create is a love story that ends happily but he slowly learns his story is doomed and can never end well, the love story ends badly three times (Break up, suicide and murder.) Due to the authors story ending badly three times and the pressure he is under from the mysterious person above him the author hangs himself, this is when the audience learn that it was the author who had hung himself at the start of the play.                   

The group then decided that I should play the author, this is going to be a massively challenging role for me to play as I have never played a character this serious with a huge amount of emotion behind it, I think I will be able to play this really well but I just need to gather the confidence and let go and really give this part my all to show that I'm not just the comedy boy. My main challenge will be showing this characters gradual break down and driven to kill himself but I'm sure with a lot of practise I can pull this character off and really create a moving piece.