21/11/13's lessons involved further development (in my group's case) completely changing our physical theatre piece and scripted washing line piece. I liked the change as it gave us almost a skeleton like guide to complete our devising piece. We were given the stimulus 'gossip' to re-write our scripted piece. I really like this as it gave us a chance to add humour to a pretty morbid period. Using the shirts in our piece worked putting it into context and helped with developing the roles.

However, using the shirts during our Frantic Assembly piece caused us to find some faults in the timing and the movement so we worked with some of the boys to improve it. This was really useful and is it helped me to develop skills needed when taking a piece and improving it to fit the context.

Leanne's singing really helped create the effective atmosphere of women dancing alone after their husbands have left for the war. It works well to connect the love for the mother to the child and the love from the wife to the husband.

In 14/11/13's lesson, I worked with the group to develop a piece based on the washing line devised piece from the week before whilst incorporating elements from the work we did based on Frantic Assembly's work. I really liked doing this as it helped me to develop skills that would enable me to intertwine different elements of performing. We devised a repeating pattern which followed the task given to us the week before. 

The boys developed a piece on their characters in the army, it was a piece created to be performed all in sync. It looked really effective and if they clean up the timing it will be extremely effective. 

We also watched the play 'Advice for The Young at Heart' written by Roy Williams. I really enjoyed this play as I loved the contrast between the two time period, this was really interesting as it portrayed that we all have the same issues, no matter where or when - which is something I would use in my later devising and further develop. 

The performances by the actors were extremely effective and fitting to their character's time period. I admired how the play did not shy away from issues it tackled such as: racism, rape and gang related violence. 

In 7/10/13's we worked on pieces in little groups. I was working with Chloe, Kat and Sashelle and we worked on a piece focusing around a conversation being held by woman about their husbands away in the war. I really liked working on this piece as it gave us some creative freedom within the task. We began improvising then writing it down. It was useful to look at the different and diverse characters you could develop from the small amount stimulus we had been given for the piece - women hanging up their washing discussing about their husbands.

On the 10/10/13's lesson we learnt how to waltz. I was paired with Chloe and we learnt to waltz together. I generally found picking up the steps quite simple and it was a really good activity to get into what they actually did for entertainment during the war.

We developed it into an full scene using the waltz and singing. I really like the use of the old war song 'Pack Up' as it really sets the time period of the piece. This was really interesting and definitely gave me an idea on using music to set the time period or setting of a theatre piece that i will definitely use in the future.

Jacob and I, whom I had been working on a duet piece with previously, began to develop a thirty second duet piece. It was completely physical without mime or words. I personally really liked this activity as it really helps you open up your creative thinking on how you're going to portray a situation without using mime or words. It's a really useful skill that I've begun to develope in the last few theatre lessons and will definitely be using it in the future.