Week three devising notes

Performance Timeline:

• Introductory monologue: Angel - 1 mins - This is to explain in sub-text to the audience who they are being in the performance giving them a story and telling them where they are and how they should approach the situation

• Audience walks around the tents - 6 mins - The audience can experience the performance and all the different tents and the performances they contains

• *Power cut*

• Insanity tent opens- Ben doing an interpretive performance - 1 mins

• *explosion*

• Ending monologue: Luke - 1 mins - audience are hurried in to the end tent as I deliver a monologue composed of the last sermon of Mohammed and extracts from the bible.

Stylistic elements

The primary bulk of the performance (allowing the audience to walk around) is heavily based around immersive theatre and allows people to interact with the audience.

There is also realism when the explosion happens after the naturalistic interpretive performance that Ben does in his tent. The bomb explodes shocking the audience back into the real world after Ben's performance. although elements of this are displayed through everyone's tents whether it be me walking around with my photos of Syrian families telling them have you seen them. Or with Martha's small breakdown in her Nursery/ teachers tent telling a story of her losing everything she had. Brechtian themes (of breaking the fourth wall) can be seen all over the performance in how we involve the audience, but it happens directly in the beginning and end monologues as we speak to them directly as a whole audience.

Notes off of Week 2 of the devising proces

The space that my group are using for our Kids in Camps performance (topic: Syria) is room 413

My group has currently divided our performance into seven different sections/ tents:

• Tent 1: The diary tent

• Tent 2: The Art therapy tent

• Tent 3: The Soup tent

• Tent 4: The Supply tent

• Tent 5: The Nursery tent

• Tent 6: The 'Insanity' tent

• Tent 7: The Memorial tent

Primary Proposal

The room consists of having the tents around the room with their own miniature performances of a character, representing a story.  (except for t
he supply tent)

e.g The memorial tent contains me being a priest from the Syrian capital, The insanity tent contains Ben being a man disconnected from his world, mentally ill after losing his family, and the art therapy tent has Stash and Dilara being two teenage girls who have lost their parents and are trying to get on with their lives.

although there are seven tents and seven people, we have decided to have Angel play a care worker in the camp to guide people through the performance and also introduce them to our performance, to keep the flow of our piece going fast with out having parents standing to the side.

In our piece we will most likely use sound and lighting as well as we can. Sound will most likely be used for background noise like wind, but the lighting will be used to create a hue for the general environment.

We also may use a bomb sound playing over a speaker to formulate an end to the piece to signify to the audience where to go and when.


This piece will be dominantly interactive leaving the audience to walk around the room themselves, this is so they can ask questions to everyone in the tents. They will be free to look at all our sections of the performance until we guide them to the end tent after an explosion/ event to make them move.

Prop List

• 7 tents
• Soup bowl/ cooking pot
• cardboard boxes
• stuffed toys
• blue tarp
• photos of Syrian families
• portable speakers
• diaries, books etc.
• candles
• spoon
• blanket/ tea towel
• puppets