Assignment : Physical Theatre and Barbican Performance

Assignment : Physical Theatre and Barbican Performance

Warm up : During the lesson with Dominique, we have recently been playing a game in the grid to increase our focus. One game we have been playing is a game where we have to bounce the ball once onto somebody's square; if the ball is bounced twice or it goes out of somebody's square they are out of the game, until they have to wait for some people to be out to come back in the game. Another activity we have done is unpredictable; this was to make sure we know when we move to the space. The only thing about it is when we don't know who is going to move. We had also played a warm-up game where we had thrown a briefcase, a ball, and a umbrella to the person in the middle. The person can say for the person "Go", so they will move and the person who says "Go" will move to the middle. This gets the class physically active as the process of the warm up gets us focused. 

During the lesson, we have been looking at some old photos around the 19th century where we have been looking at the time where women had to fight for their rights so we have created a still image, where myself, Cagla, and Deneile had to force feed Cagla in a aggressive manner; during those times women were forced feed inside prison. This was called "The Cat and Mouse Act" which several women would be sentenced to prison and be forced feed by the prisoners, only to release them to starve and bring them back to the cells. We had also learnt how women had to struggle for their rights as there was two women rights campaign: the Suffragists, a peaceful group and the Suffragettes, a all-women aggressive group. The Suffragist tactics were to give the message around the world peacefully, via having men join the group, giving out speeches to express their rights while the Suffragettes committed violent activities; planting a bomb on David Lloyd George's house, despite the fact that was supporting the women's movement, chaining themselves to railings, and being sentenced to jail.

Furthermore, we had also learnt of a women named Rosa Parks. Her history reveals her to be a brave women; on a Thursday evening Rosa Parks makes her journey home via bus. Tired, Parks walks to the seats marked for white people, which at the time was against the law for an African-American to sit in the area of a white person. She finally settles a spot in the middle of the bus. The driver began to notice the whites section being taken, and more white people are boarding the bus. The driver then demands for the blacks to move up the bus, until when a all African-Americans decide to comply to the drivers command, this is the first time Parks had broken the rules of the segregated laws, which she always disliked seeing as she is the only black women to not co-operate. As a black lady, she had refused to give up her seat for the benefit of a white person, and was arrested although in the process, she had gained recognition and she had ultimately standing by her race and is proud who she is. It further shows that Rosa Parks was not hesitant to give up and she knew she would go to prison if she did not comply, but she wanted to give a message to all black people in the world.