Evaluation

Throughout out time working our piece, we really tried to connect with our space as much as we could. we all researched Rose and Fred west and watched various different documentaries and programmes about the killers. We looked into Roses childhood deeply, and all of the victims stories. We used numerous different materials for our performance. We used 25 blue luminous glow sticks and stuck them to the curved white walls to create a sense of a sterile enviroment, not only physically to make it look like a mental instutution, or a hospital, but to make it quite emotionless and empty, as we imagined Rose Wests mind to be. We printed off key words that related to serial killers and researched how West's childhood impacted on her adulthood. We also printed off articles of the killings and pictures of the victims to stick on the walls. I think that this had a huge impact because it isnt just a perfomance any more. These people were real and suffered horrifically in the hands of a middle aged woman and her husband. At the end of the corridor was a room, the floor was a hard grey cement, and going off what we knew about the killings, the Wests buried their eldest daughter heather under the garden patio. To represent this as well as we could, we used me as one of the victims, with just my legs out of the door. I was bare legged/foot with bruises all over my legs. The audience would see my legs on the floor and straight ahead was an ipad with a video of a feutus in the womb. We wanted to use the contrast of not only did rose hurt her own child, whom she carried in her womb, but also using it as if Rose was the feutus and what she had become. We wanted the challenge the theory that killers were born killers, but it was the audiences decision after the piece. Throughout rehersal process we all worked really hard on various different sections. Some weeks we would spend the lesson rehersing our physical peices that we wanted to perform during the peice and other times we would spendo the whole lesson researching the victims and killings in depth so we had a full insight in to Rose Wests mind. I think that overall our peice went really well and to plan. Because of another group, we didnt have as much time setting up as we needed, but taking that into consideration, i think it went really well. I think that the audience really liked the lighting choices. We wanted our peice not to come across as a scene but more abstract. We didnt want any characterisation other than the victim in the end room. We wanted to represent the mind, and i think we did this well by using physical theatre to show the nerves and different parts of the mind. Our piece was called 'Welcome to West', because of how much publicity all of the West killings got, we knew that our audience would have a rough idea of what it was all about. We really hope the audience went away with a slightly clearer veiw on the killings and who Rose West was.