Physical Theatre

Over the past few days we have been working on a physical theatre piece, our piece was based around religion and how they are formed but also how they are changed and destroyed by society that don't agree or accept them, this can also represent a lot of other things not just religion. We decided to go for a more movement based piece. We started by showing how the religion is formed, then how society begins to break it down. During the middle of our piece we had something slightly more abstract in the fact that it showed someone pulling themselves up but that resulted in someone else getting pushed down.

Overall I think this unit has been interesting and fun but at the same time I do not feel we learnt a lot about physical theatre, we learnt about the history and what it actually is but we never focused on any physical theatre practitioner and what their techniques were, we never worked shopped any techniques we were just told to create a physical theatre piece which I don't feel is right as physical theatre is an umbrella term for something more specific. If I was to redo this style I would like more time to learn about other physical theatre aspects.