Find Me Response Phase
“Find Me” Response phase
Previous to our exam, we read a play called “Find Me”, written by Olwen Wymark. We analysed the play, understanding the main character, Verity, through her strange characteristics and her relationships with other characters in the play. In the play there are 5 Veritys, which allowed our acting throughout the day to be non-naturalistic.
We started with the opening scene from “Find Me”. This scene included the description of Verity up to that point. Each group performed this in a variety of staging forms. My group performed in a round. We set up a circle of chairs with 5 entrances for each person to begin standing in; we thought this would heighten the audience’s involvement. We split the narrator’s paragraph so that each person said a sentence; each narrator would walk into the circle as they spoke. We organised it so narrators came into the circle in a “random” order, this made it more exciting and unpredictable for the audience. I noticed the importance of a chair in the first sentence, so we decided to reflect this in our performance with narrator 1 bringing a chair and slamming it down in the middle of the circle, before sitting on it. Every sentence explains how Verity is moved form one place to another, against her will, so we used the chair as various institutions Verity was sent to, and each narrator, whilst speaking, grabbed the previous Verity (who was sitting on the chair) and chucked her away. Aggression was shown through the narrator grasping hair and violently pushing Verity away. The moment the narrator sat on the chair was the moment he/she turned into Verity, I showed this by crossing my legs slowly on the chair, and I changed from fixing my eyes on a point, to wandering my eyes and, remembering an extract from the play, I fiddled with my hands, and rocked slightly, fidgeting. We used the circle to show how Verity was encased, and couldn’t escape, so instead of each Verity leaving the circle they sat next to a member of...
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