2 Major outcomes from rehearsals
   I feel that today my group got a lot done. Compared to us last Friday, day when we decided to start everything all over because of explosion of ideas and confusion over what we actually wanted say with our piece, I feel that now we have really established a clear message with clear plot and defined characters. Most of what we did was just developing further our basic ideas we discussed on Friday and pulling everything together to make a fluent and interesting story. We were able to tell our opinions about what we wanted to do and so we worked together better and actually got on our feet and went trough scenes to each other, rather than just sitting around talking about what we wanted to do. I feel especially strong about one of our scene, a scene we didn't plan to have before but then added to create a new level for Max's character. It is a scene between Max's character and his supposed girlfriend(Jenny), where they start to realize how Max's character is starting to become abusive, just like his father.

How did you come to those outcomes?
   We wanted our piece to be about how we become who we are, or rather, how do abusive people become like that. The character we are focusing on has a abusive childhood himself, but still we raise a question whether it was really his actions that ended up making him like it. I feel like that the scene between Max's and Jenny's characters is very important to establish the main idea of our mini play. In scene, the two supposed lovers have had a fight ending up Max hitting Jenny. The scene starts with Max trying to apologize from Jenny, but she is not having it. She opens her mind about the situation, telling Max's character, that he has become like his father. This obviously hits hard, but also helps Max's character to realize how he has changed. The scene ends with the two splitting up and Max denying him becoming his father. This followed by an abusive scene brings our message to the audience loud and clear.

How are you using...

1. Song Lyric?
  As I said in my last post, our group wandered of from our song(Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm) some time ago, but I do realize now, that it did help us to create our servants and bring us to our time period(1800's) by directing us towards women's rights and oppression.

2. Research?
   Our research about the industrial revolution and women's rights helped us with our characterization and the dynamics between our characters. It also lead us to the topic of abuse, since it was accepted for men to put their wives and children to their rightful places by abuse.

3. Acting techniques?
    We use clocking the audience quite many times, to create a connection with the audience and bring a modern twist to such historical setting. E.g. When two of our characters are arguing with each other, rather than facing each other both of the character face the audience and direct their emotion to them to create a stronger and even more intimidating feeling.