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.