Week Five

Monday 12th October
In today's double lesson we pushed on and developed the first flashback. Before doing this we sat down and worked out the motives of each character as to why they would want to kill Alice

Elizabeth (Queen of Hearts): Mad at how she has treated Charlie and wants revenge for her.
Charlie (Cheshire Cat): Mad at how she has been treated by Alice and sees red and accidentally kills her.
Jason (Mad Hatter): Fed up of Alice constantly following him around and he kills her to prevent her from doing this any longer
Michael (White Rabbit): Doesn't want to be Alice's babysitter any longer and when she makes him leave he accidentally kills her.

The most obvious in my eyes are Elizabeth and Charlie, one who hates Alice and one that is the wronged best friend. If I were the audience then I would feel that these two are the most obvious and it would surprise me if it were the other two as I felt like this I talked to my peers and they agreed with me. After talking about this a bit longer, we came up with the idea that Alice had killed herself accidentally, perhaps she had been running away from the party, hit her head and fell and died. This was based upon An Inspector Calls, where no one directly kills the deceased but they play a part in the events leading up to her death. We liked this idea as it wasn't obvious and it would surprise the audience when they watched it. We also thought that Michael would have a crush on Alice which is why he wants to be near her.

We then went on to work on the first flashback. What we came up with was that Alice arrived at the party with Michael, much to her annoyance, and quickly left him. She then begrudgingly goes over to talk to Charlie. During their conversation, Alice makes a sly remark about Charlie's dress, which she fails to see. She then has to go to Michael during this time Elizabeth and Charlie fight. Alice then goes over to flirt with Jason, who she fancies but their conversation is disrupted by Charlie who learns Alice dislikes her. The two argue and before Charlie leaves she says 'I wonder why Michael even likes you.'

Today's lesson was really productive as we managed to get a lot done.

Wednesday 14th October
In our single lesson today, we briefly had a run through of what we had so far. We then went onto perform the whole thing we had got so far to an audience. This went really well as they mostly understood what was going on, which was really pleasing. They gave us feedback and told us what they enjoyed. Rosie told me I had to loosen up and not look so nervous when I am getting picked up, which is something I knew I needed to work on. We also considered changing Charlie's character inspiration to doormouse because the Cheshire Cat does not reflect the character as we think the character of Charlie should be shy and timid the opposite of Alice.The feedback was really positive and gave us a lot to improve and consider when we next rehearse.

Alice trying to fight off a pack of cards