Moonfish Productions- The Hairy Toe Development

Today, we were given the task of developing our 'Children's Theatre' pieces and performing a scene from it. We spent a long time thinking of ideas for the storyline and eventually came up with a scene to perform to the class.

We all discussed our thoughts for the storyline and everyone put their ideas forward.  However, we found that they all differed tremendously. We handled the problem in a very productive way- each of us was given a piece of paper to write their version of what they thought the story line should be and then we took it in turns to read out what what was written on our pieces of paper. Eventually we chose to incorporate the best ideas from each of the pieces of paper (as everyone came up with something really creative). So we set out to devise one of the scenes and rehearsed it.

We chose to do a scene in which The Giant and Flo (his young friend), were attempting to break into Lady Petronella's hideout, in order to get The Hairy Toe back. I played Lady Petronella's Guard, who was meant to be a mean, scary and an excellent swordsman. 

The scene became quite comical and the idea of doing a James Bond spoof came up. I was given feedback that my character was too scary, that I could not be on the same level of evilness as Lady Petronella and that, as a minion I needed two sides to my character (possibly even, a sob story). Therefore, I need to work to further develop my character, which I will do by researching Evil Henchman and creating my own character using these ideas:

The Emperor's New Groove- Kronk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MNllfr6wVY

Peter Pan- Mr Smee:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkQt6wRGhbU
 

The Lion King- Hyenas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhZ0TKdgJGg