During our Monday performance we decided to start to develop scene one from ‘Ghosts’ but tried to portray this in an abstract way and tried to show the audience the whole scene through movement.

In order to do this as a group of 13 we decided to discuss as a group what the first scene is showing from the characters. In the first scene we broke down the two characters Regi e and Engstrand to the basics and focussed on the gender conflict throughout the scene and the status/power that comes with it.

Therefore from this we split our group apart according to our gender and worked on a piece that shows the males representing Engstrand as powerful and dangerous and the females representing Regine whose weak. We first started to use proxemics by in order to show the powers between the males and females and decided to play with the proxemics to show the effect of this by having the males slowly coming towards the females. We decided to keep the dialogue to a minimal and have the males say “Its gods own rain my child” and females repetitively saying  “stay back” , this would show the audience that the females are extremely weak and powerless compared to the males.

Another day In rehearsals we wanted to show more character development in the movement in order to make it obvious to the audience that we are representing the characters. Therefore, we decided to do a 5 min workshop where we walked around the room as ourselves and then acted as ourselvces when we felt angry,sad or excited which scaled from 1-10. 10 being the most exgerrated walk. This allowed us to devlop and help us understand how movement can affect a character.

From this worekshop we then started to walk around the room as ourselves then decided to walk as Engstrand in a way in which each and everyone sees the character. We then stopped and watched each others walk and took ideas of how Engstrand should walk and what his walk would say to the audience. We decided to make Engstrand walk very exaggerated by swinging his body from left to right and putting pressure on his disabled right leg. This would create a creepy effect on the character when being placed next to the female actors who were quite neutral but and some times having a low level in the space.