The Flea Devised Pieces

We had to do an exercise where we got into groups, I was with Molly, Kitty and Sarah and we had to devise a scene that expressed, "The Flea" from a different view point. We did our scene from the viewpoint of the girl's virginity being sacred, so we had the idea to take a cattle auction and auction virgin's instead. Kitty was the host and Sarah and I were virgin's, so got sold to members of the audience. Molly was meant to be auctioned, but Sarah and I told Kitty she wasn't a virgin, so she was turned away from the audience in disgust.

We used this idea to portray to the audience how important her virginity is to her in her eyes and that without it, she would be ruined. The performances were really interesting to watch as some groups did it from very interesting angles, e.g. Tom, Laura, Cassie and Dee did theirs from the perspective of the flea and made a performance where they cried when their flea friend was killed.

These performances gave us some really good ideas on the different approaches we could take towards performing our piece and the different view-points we could express different messages through.