Blog Entry 11

Updates on Sound and Movement! Coloured words are the main changes.

Working Script
DV: Death should be a choice for the “living”.
Script structure – Episodic

Scene 1 – Refusal
Character: Fearful, unable to accept the truth
Audience reception: Sympathize, discomfort

Clara hangs upside down on the rope (Music: Robert Rich’s Pathways) – Idea of hanging in between life and death, stuck in the position

*Note: My original idea was to hang upside down but I realise it was rather ambitious because there are many movement restrictions and it requires TREMENDOUS amount of control. This image is safer and more feasible, but it may have the tendency to look "nice". So this is where my movements come in -.-

The cloth will be red in colour (1 metre), can associate to blood, life, death.. Will have a dangling, lost and struggling feel.

Background story:
- Clara is seen on the hospital bed.
- She wakes up suddenly from her coma.
- She does not know what has happened, where she is and is extremely afraid.
- She sees how everyone is running towards her body and realizes the condition she is in.
- She detests how she looks like now and refuses to accept her current physical state.

Scene 2 – Resistance
Character: In pain
Audience reception: Painful to watch, discomfort

Clara’s internal struggle (Music: Robert Rich’s Refuse) – Idea of opposing forces
Background story:
- Interaction with physiotherapist PT: PT tries her best to help but she doesn’t want to help herself; conflict of interest
- Struggle for freedom

Scene 3 – Hope
Character: Hopeful
Audience reception: Hopeful

Clara sits on a chair – (Music: Robert Rich’s Air) – Idea of being able to rely on others/dependency/ optimism
Background story:
Doctors found a way to cure her (Clara is hopeful and more optimistic – Movements become lighter and less distorted, more flow)
She cooperates with physiotherapist

Scene 4 – Void
Character: Sense of finality, helpless
Audience reception: Hopes crushed, resignation

Clara plays the piano and then hangs herself upside down, back to first position in Scene 1 – (Music: Robert Rich’s Open Window) – Idea of exhaustion and finality
Background story:
Found to have pneumonia and has worsen her condition and increased her medical fees
Clara feels that she’s a burden to her loved ones