Physical Theatre Performed at the Barbican

Reflection of the box

The first session of physical theatre was that we had a box sent to us full of objects and in that box there were a

• Hat
• Umbrella
• Masks
• Newspapers
• Camera
• Banners
• A ball
• A case
• And a bag of paper money

and I had to expect that my have to work with these objects with are physical theatre performance. with these objects we had to lay them out in the 9 squares and discuss what they were for and when can we use them. Then we had to get into a circle and practice throwing the object round because we are doing this somewhere in our performance.


Reflection about the reading material and choosing Emmmeline Pankhurst.


In the second session we had been given a booklet with case studies in it about women's right and we had to talk about it and show some images our selves of how it would look like if we were to do it. for example women being forced fed, women not being able to vote, women being moved or treated disrespectfully because of her colour or she's female.


We finally had to choose a case study and we all came to choosing Emmmeline Pankhurst.


Ensemble work


In session 3 we played the nine square grid and that's a game were nine people are in nine squares and the person in the middle has the ball and to start it is the person in the middle bonces the ball in her or his square first then bounces it to another square and the aim of the game is to get to the person in the middle out so you end up in the middle. We had also played another nine square game were people  were in lines on each side of the square and we had to move as a pack but in numbers so one side 4 people move at the same time then 3 people go from the other side then 2 people go from another side then 1 person and then it starts all over again.


Complicite workshop with Joyce


In the fourth session a women who had been in the Complicite named Joyce had come in to do a work shop with us at the start of the work shop she had played some games to get to know are names then we ended up playing a game were we were put into threes and we had a ball and one of us was a happy person and wants everyone to play with them, there was a person were she be selfish and not let one of the people not play and the last person was happy band wanted to join in but kept on getting rejected. We also played a game were in a group of four but a object which was are fifth person and we had to make images with women's rights by using the object that was in our group.


Freeze frames images with props


In the fifth session we did freeze frames images with props and we had to use the props as a person as well and we had to use theses props while doing images of women's rights and we had to prepare it and then perform it in front of the class and get feed back. The feedback I got back was that we had to make sure it fitted well and just develop it more.


Research into case studies


In the sixth session we had to research about the case studies that's were in our booklet and the one we had chosen for are physical theatre complicite.
We researched about women's rights, and we saw a video of the frantic assembly the chair duet and we got to do a bit of chorography with that and get feedback as well.


Case Studies

• Discrimination in the work place
• Domestic violence
• Forced marriage
• FGM

We were put into partners first to research a certain case studies and I got chosen to research about domestic violence and then bring my research for next lesson then. the next lesson I brang my research and we spoke about it then we got put into groups of which case study we wanted to do and I was put into domestic violence and we then had to create what we saw in the video of frantic assembly the chair duet and do something like that but showing domestic violence and in my group there is Sonia, Marta, Daria and Rafa and we created a sequence with this and here is a video of what we have been doing so far