Piece with Sonia and Robin

Using the poem "Home" by Warsan Shire as stimulus, we developed a piece looking at the idea of how our a place of comfort - like your home - could turn on you and become unstable;

"no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear

saying-

leave,

run away from me now

i dont know what i’ve become

but i know that anywhere

is safer than here"

We felt the most effective way to show this was through the innocence and obliviousness of children - a lot of the children who have been caught up in migration, will not know what they're running from or where they're going. All they know is that they can't go back home. We explore the simplicity of children playing a game of hopscotch that would then morph into something darker - a minefield and escaping bombs. This was to show how a simple game you play as a child can be distorted by war. 

As we were looking out sounds this lesson, we decided to contrast our piece with the sounds of children playing in a school playground. This is a sound that everyone who has gone to school or lives by one, recognises - it's a very familiar sound of everyone's childhood. Furthermore, it highlighted how safe you feel as a child in your playground compared to how unsafe the conditions the children running from war torn countries have to play and live in. 

It would be quite hard to involve everyone in this piece, however we did question perhaps involving the audience in a game at the beginning before splitting off and performing but we didn't get round to rehearsing that properly.