Mother Courage and her children - scene 2 workshop 6/10/16

In today's lesson, we were given the scripts for scene 2 of Mother Courage. This scene is about Mother Courage trying to sell a Capon to the cook on a dodgy deal, and Eilif is boasting about his battle adventures. I was in a group with Hugh, Alice and Tyler - I played the Cook, Alice played Eilif, Tyler was Mother Courage and Hugh was the General. To add a Brechtirian atmosphere, we used chairs to make the tent and used placards to label it as 'the tent' - we also used a placard to label the Capon. We also used soundscapes which helps the audience understand that the performance isn't real because the sound effects are coming from the actors. This scene, like the first, was very hard to understand what was going on at first, but after a few read throughs, we got the jist.