Presentation

Our play had a lot of different things that were presented on stage such as;

- Hanging bodies - lights to shine on them

- Lights to represent pillowmans 'hypnosis'  / voice overs - reacting off him and looking in various directions

- Practicing the hang in the dark - adding 10 second count to show the death

- Finding a neutral for every bedroom

- Look at audience at constant time

- Monologue - how to be portrayed 

- Transitions in the dark / annoying curtain

- Showing the glove for my scene

- Performing in the front of the table

When we hanged the bodies on the ropes to drop when we commit suicide. It makes the the stage and the performance look more realistic because the clothes were a duplicate of what we were wearing. Having the lights shining on them when they drop down makes it look much better and it makes it stand out because in the stage it was dark when we committed suicide, therefore, the lights shining on the clothes grabbed the audiences attention and straight away the audience though they committed suicide. After that, when there's a black out, we drop from the table to the stage and we had a 10 second count to show our death while we hanged our-self's.The 10 second count down was a last minute idea which we all agreed on because it made it looks much better and more realistic.

When the Pillowman Voice Over started talking, we were looking in different directions because we didn't know where he was. When Chris was there, we would look at hum straight away and be scared because we don't know who he is. Chris had his injury and sadly he couldn't attend the performance, therefore it was only a voice over. At the end of the monologue, the Pillowman say's something like 'would you like your pain to disappear?' As the Pillowman says that, we look at the table and chair direction and the lights start to fade in and out in a bluish and greenish colour to show that its the Pillowmans power and to represent that hes there watching you kill yourself. 

The back curtains were fully closed and it was really hard to see when you'd come on or off the stage. It was really dark and it was very hard to see where the curtains separated. It was very annoying not being able to find it correctly, especially when its you scene after, also when I'd put on different props, such as the bed and some chairs and a table, it was very hard to open the curtains, it needed someone to hold the curtains and to make it ready for me to be able to bring the bed on or off the stage easily. Sharron then put a white glowing sellotape to where the curtains separate. That made it so much easier to know where to enter. We then took advantage of it and used it when we needed to bring a prop in or out. 

My scene was pretty much the same looking room as Joseph's (Princ) or Stephanie's (Eva). The only thing that changed was I had a glove on top of the little drawer to show that I've been trying to take boxing lessons and learn how to fight because of Jonah, and because my dad always would call me useless shit for no reason. Therefore, the glove represents that I'm trying to take some boxing lessons to win Jonah's fight and to stop him from bullying me.