The Pillowman

Today we set act three, finishing the play, and worked on the death scene. We decided that keeping it simplistic would be the best way for the death scene to keep it as naturalistic as possible, so it matched the rest of the play. I think Dom and Dan really need to work on their characterisation and on their relationship as it comes to blows in act 3 and brings more understanding to why there is so much tension between them.

We have also been talking about the stories that Katurian tells throughout the play and how we could tell them to make them more interesting. I had the idea of creating the stories using puppets to create a silhouette story which we could film and record Carl's voice over, meaning he wouldn't have to remember the stories which would be a big help to his line learning. This would add another technique to the performances and give the audience a break from all the straight dialogue and give them something interesting to watch, it also works better than us just reading the story which may be slightly boring especially as Carl struggles a little with story telling. The only problem with this is that it would be time consuming to create and none of us are particularly skilled in puppeteering.