Brothers Grimm: Lady and The Lion 6/6/2014

Today we worked on Lady and The Lion. Although this was a rough work out of the play from the start to the end since we didn't have our main character who plays the Lion. 

We had two directors working on this and went through it quickly. Even though sometimes we would end up off task because we would suggest an idea and lead on with that and expand then loose ourself from the original point. 

Our idea for this play is that we use shadow puppetry with a screen to show the Lady's journey following the Lion when he is a Dove or the fight between the Lion and Dragon Princess. But we weren't allowed to stay on the topic of shadow puppetry because we kept being told off about this which made everyone confused with what we were then going to act out and what would be shown by puppets. 

I feel like this lesson was successful because everyone just wanted to work and get this piece over and done with quickly without arguing. Although sometimes there will always be arguments between us all. 

This is one side of the stage where we have a gate with flowers on and nice colours which is the summer/spring side of the Lions castle

This is the other side of the Lions garden. We are using the iron gate which is black and dull, it represents the dead side of the garden where it is still in winter.
As a group we felt like this would show the difference between the gardens.

Here is Daisy behind the screen. She is playing the Lady. This is when she is in the room with the Lion and he turns into a Dove. We haven't got around to deciding what the dove will be made out of so Daisy was using a book as the Dove which I think worked well. Others within the room thought otherwise.