IDEA DEVELOPMENT PROCESS (Devising).

Speaking on the process as a whole, I think we had strong moments of making refined, well-constructed art, whilst at other moments it felt we lacked a lot of ideas. I think during the time our director wasn’t in, we had a lot of issues, as making work and joining up as one collective cast definitely meant the work we could’ve been doing wasn’t being done. I think we did very well on the research aspect and that the cast as a whole definitely put their focus into it, and the ideas we gathered were clearly worked on and edited to better fit the context of a performance. I think I could’ve been more present during the development of other scenes and split my time between developing the monologue and helping the rest of the cast out, as I felt unaware and unhelpful during the development of other scenes. I think given the time we had we created a fine piece of work, but there were definitely elements we could’ve fixed, developed and changed that we just didn’t do. One of the primary elements was collaboration. A lot of the individual groups for scenes stayed in bubbles without having other people come in and criticise, and offer ideas, which definitely would’ve improved the process overall. I think another impactful effect it would’ve had would create a more ambitious and effective workspace for the cast, leading to more work being created. On the other hand, I think during the rehearsal process the fact we were running the show over and over again helped everyone see the performance as a whole and actually lead to a plethora of ideas to be made, explored and developed. One of the most heavily rehearsed and developed ideas we worked on was the transitioning and moving of boxes. I think this demonstrates a collective understanding of working as one cast. My general opinion on the rehearsal process was that it was our most effective, sharp and overall finest process during the whole creation of the performance, due to a collection of ideas, development and altering. During this process, we worked on a plethora of different scenes and sharpened a lot of the weaker and underdeveloped parts of the show. I personally felt more in tune with the cast as we were able to give ideas and opinions on what to change, ideas we’ve had, and offer our perspectives on certain parts of scenes.