The tempest

Physical theatre is hard to use as every one has to stay on the stage and can't go to get changed. I think that physical theatre is also very affective. It was used within our play to create the sense of 'magic' by people who are the palm trees talking/singing this was illustrated within our second scene when aerial woke up to the sound of 'when the rhythm rhythm starts to sway'. This was creating a magic mood as palm trees don't talk let alone sing. It also creates magic when aerial puts the sailors back to sleep or just wakes them up with a song or hand movements

The magic also relates to our own spefic body movements and how we transform from one character to the next, I have done this by slowly growing/sinking into the shape I should be for example in the first scene I am a rock and I slowly grow tall with my arms slowly out stretching. My characters range from a small curled up rock to a big monster of Caliban. I start off the play as a rock that sways to the music this then gradually grows into a palm tree that has to stay as still as possible. I slowly transformed in to a monster (Caliban) by doing this I had to make my voice deep, thud with every movement, sway as if I couldn't control and fall asleep on the floor as non elegantly as possible.

Within the love scene with Marinda and Ferdinand, Marinda tells Ferdinand to rest so this is what the palm trees do I slowly knelt down with my hands still on my legs looking into the audience this effect was to create a love resting scene. I believe from my angle I created this well even though it didn't work as planned as some palm trees we still stood up. There are several occasions when the palm trees relate to the mood as I have already mentioned in this essay. Caliban continues through a very drunken stage where I have to act as drunk as possible this is when I have to walk slow and heavy, I didn't remember and carry out this in my final performance because I was concentrating on acting drunk

The final performance went as well as planed. There were several hiccups where people went on to another scene skipping one, or just forgetting ques, though as a group we over came these problems by improvising. At one point during the play everyone was just stood still, in bad silence so I decided to get in to my character Calibans and wonder drunkenly across the stage shouting 'Trinculo's', during this improvisation Katie as trinculo's came on to stage as if to look for me shouting 'I cant see you calibans where are you' we continued this until the people realised where they were meant to be, so we slowly transformed in to the palm trees we should have been. This wasn't the only time there were several times before Katie and I improvised so it could get us out of trouble. I believe tom speed's idea of blood pack on prospo was excellent but I think we should have tried it out some way before as the plastic knife he had brought with the pins in the end didn't work because the knife bent this is where people came out of character, and started to become silly. I do believe this was a good performance as no one noticed where we were improvising or it just being part of the play.

I believe aerial should be in a long flowing white dress because she is a sprit and any muck that gets on her vanishes. I choose this costume because aerial sounds power full and respected that she can do anything she wanted this is why I designed her in a dress and the era would have been quite old fashioned where women weren't allowed dresses over their knees!

Caliban should be in small 3/4 lengths and tight top that is to small for him which is ripped so it shows he has been their along time and he is scruffy this would show people he doesn't care what he looks like, with scruffy hair and no shoes. He is a slave so this outfit would represent that with in the character

Prospo should be in a bow tie waist jacked and smart trousers this is because he is the most power full one on the island and owns it. He is in charge of all the sprits and keeps control of the island

In conclusion I believe the final performance went well. And helped us progress with our mistakes to learn from them!!