Domestic Abuse (Complicite)

This domestic complicite is part for our showcase we are performing for the Barbican Theatre. The people in our group for the performance is me, Sonia, Marta, Daria and Courtney. The abuser is me and the victim is Sonia; the story-line sees the beginning where I'am meeting Sonia along with her friends. Some of her friends believe the lover to be a good boyfriend, while the other believes that he she should not trust him. The abuse comes to the end where it is playful but really it is abuse, and the victim states that everything is okay by pushing away her friends. 

For the scene, in order to get an idea on what the domestic reality is actually like, this had required me to do a lot of research and watch videos of women who suffer on the hands of domestic abuse and how they cope with the undeserved treatment they have to contain. Also, performance wise, the videos that I have been watching had given me a lot of ideas on how we could play the scene. 

Some parts of the play we had formed as a group to make the performance. The performance also has items that would flow with the storyline and would make a perfect combination. For this domestic scene, the performance requires everything to be silent and there is a rhythm to where we are going for each part.