Name: Amber Bachet

Devising Log
An area of our performance we worked
on today was:
After Friday’s lesson, we had all
decided to go home and research and
discuss when we came back on
Wednesday next week. When we came
back, we had fully decided on using
Mary Bell. We began discussing ideas,
but didn’t do much physical blocking.
We worked on and improved by:
We improved it by discussing the scenes we
thought that we do, after we decided to
start blocking the scenes. We blocked a
couple scenes, but not in order. We decided
to follow Mary’s life but still change some
things for performance purposes.

This is a change from our original idea because we had originally planned to brainstorm
more, but when we got there we just decided to go with Mary Bell as we believed it would
make a good performance since we could just take events from her life and turn them into
scenes.

This will help us show our original

intentions by:
Our intention with this performance was to
show that children are just a product of their
environment and also that anyone can
improve. Mary Bell shows this as she was a
young girl who grew up in an abusive
household and was mistreated by others
around her which caused her to develop
destructive/violent behaviours, but when she
grew up she was able to rehabilitate herself
and have a child of her own.
This will help the audience understand our
performance and intentions better because:
We start off first with Mary’s mother and the
way Mary was treated to show her toxic
environment, and through the use of
characterization and flashforwards, we show
her slowly become more violent and
irrational.

The effects it has had on my character and performance are:

We played multiple roles in this performance, so we had no specific role. I had to give a
monologue as a young child who loves presents.

Some health and safety we will need to consider are:

None.