"Forever" by M6 Theatre Company.

      The narrative of the play was about the life of an unwanted baby and how it felt when it was old enough to understand. The play ends with the unwanted baby who is now a man faced with the same situation a pregnancy in a non-loving relationship. The play was divided in to different times, the protagonist would character change to a baby for the scenes in the past and back to a man when scenes where set in the present. A clever technique was used to make the character changes more obvious. The sound of a bell was heard when the character change happened. The bell could represent a baby’s rattle bell. This was significant as the character was changing into a baby.

    The character change was established by body language and facial expressions, as there was no time for actual costume changes with the amount of time the character changed. The first change was the position that the character was in, whenever he turned into the baby he would be sat on the floor, legs loosely in front t of him and playing childlike with his arms, raising them and thumping himself with them.   His facial expression was complete amazement with everything that he saw or did. The character took on the actions of a typical baby and research had obviously been undertaken in order to correct the pose and attitude of the baby. The baby was more relaxed in his posture than the man who held himself straight and crossed his arms in order to age himself.  The movement of the baby was limited and only the occasional crawl, the crawl like the babies other actions where roughly done to emphasise how young the baby was.

    The stage was a small area and despite this several props where used in the production. They where used effectively and became part of the production. The play began with the stage covered with toys, this immediately indicated the audience that a child was featured in the production and the cot gave away the age. The mother character easily cleared the mess away during her everyday chores. Also the cot became a way to show the couple-moving house. Instead of changing all the staging, which would have, taken time then simply carried the cot around the stage and placed it in a different position, to show a new house.