Portfolio work Development 1

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Portfolio work (Paper 1 Unit 1) Development 1

    As a class we read the poem ‘The Devil’s Wife’ by Carol Ann Duffy which is about the case of five murders committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the victims were buried across the Yorkshire moors hence the case being named ‘The Moors Murders’. The poem ‘The Devil’s Wife’ is Carol Ann Duffy’s interpretation of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley’s relationship.

    In groups we discussed how we interpreted the poem and how their relationship developed, that if neither of them had ever met then it is thought that neither of them would have committed the murders, this tied in with the idea of fate which we had been looking at. We annotated it by writing about what it made us think and feel. Our group believed that the main aspect of the poem was the power Ian Brady gradually took from Myra Hindley. We focused on the first two sections of the poem entitled ‘Dirt’ and ‘Medusa’ because this is where their relationship was developing.

    We then went on to create a mainly naturalistic piece focusing on their relationship and what we thought the poem was suggesting- that the ‘Devil’ Ian Brady began to take over her to the point where he had shaped who she was.

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    In preparation for making our piece we did a trust exercises where we fell back into someone else’s hands and had to completely trust them for the task. We also explored some exercises where we had to take control of someone through using them as a puppet. So in our piece we tried to incorporate these elements of physical theatre, to show the trust, control and manipulation present in their relationship and that the control he had over her was more powerful than simply telling her what to do.

    We used the poem to keep a ...

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