other things

Coming back from the Christmas holidays has helped us to look at the show with fresh eyes, however in the first two sessions back we have found ourselves hitting a block with where we want our story to go. We had so many ideas which we wanted to include and was finding it somewhat hard to pare down.

Following the scratch performance we showed before christmas we were told by some of our peers that some of the scenes seemed somewhat offensive and were wanred that we might be crossing a line that we didn't want to cross. I feel here that our ideas were taken in the wrong way as our aim was never to poke fun of disability, I feel that the audience were watching it out of context as we did not have any of the video footage to go with the live action on stage therefore the audience could not see how an individual scene fit in with the rest of the show. We were somewhat put out at first as we were worried that we had offended people but then realised that the audience would not be the same when we performed the final show and the show would be developed enough so that individual moments that might be seen as offensive will be in context with the rest of the story. I also felt that this was quite a positive moment because it showed us that we couldn't please everyone and the group quite liked this idea, how we could create tension within the audience thus making for a more interesting show as it had the potential to start debate.