7 Devils. Devised piece

The 7 Devils piece was the final piece i was in. In the final performance. I feel it was the most powerful movement piece we actually performed. We were all scattered around the room in chairs. There were 7 of us in total (7 patients). The room had a balcony like hole in the wall which we shined a light on. This is where Dan Mckay and Freya stood ( The Doctors ). This gave an eerie effect. Also due to the fact the audience scattered themselves around the room. Some even between patients. 

The music we used for the piece was ( 7 Devils- by Florence and the machine. The music was very powerful and eerie sounding which helped deliver what the physical movement was showing. It was showing all of us going through a relaxation movement. But showed all our inner demons coming out. We were trying to show that we were trapped and locked inside our twisted minds. I feel that the music seriously helped get across the audience what was being shown. 

At the start of the movement piece. Before any movement. There was a small clip being played at the front that we were all staring at. A relaxation clip showing a doctor talking about relaxing advice. At the end of the clip we began doing slight rapid movements for example grabbing our faces or reaching out forward. We were all doing this in sync. Then we slowly moved around to different chairs around the audience. We done this to make things extra creepy. At first the doctors said the patients wouldn't move. Which probably made the audience feel relieved and inclined to stand anywhere. This delivered effect when we all started getting up and moving. Around the audience. 

By the end of the movement piece we are all in different chairs to our original ones. The reason this was my favourite piece. Was because of the 1: location- I felt that doing it in this large creepy room which was on a different floor to the other rooms really gave massive effect: I also felt extremely in character and really put myself in the position of the character I was playing. Portraying exactly how I would be feeling or behaving if I was really there. 

I was told by audience members after that this was their favourite scene. Due to the unexpected outcome of the movement. Also I was told that obviously the venue itself is quite haunted and paranormal. The music and scenario of what we were actually doing did put some people on the edge. Feeling a bu strange. We wanted this exact reaction from this piece and we got it.