The Pig Siblings

Now that we had developed a back story as to why Mr Pig was the way he was we decided to devise another scene that explored Mr Pig’s relationship with his two older sisters Peggy and Penny. We started by reworking the Wendy House scene so that the Wolf and Peter’s two sisters are responsible for teasing him and it ends with Peter calling out saying that he is going to tell mummy. This line shows the vulnerability of little Peter when upset by his two big sisters and shows the development of his character and how he grows up to be some sort of “evil mastermind”.

We then improvised a scene that focused on the relationship of the three pigs and how Peter is the “runt of the litter”. We went with the idea of a singing lesson as we thought we could try and incorporate some humorous singing moments as well as possibly creating our own music through our voices and bodies. We wanted the scene to show that Peter’s sisters are the favourites of their singing teacher and Peter is always the one getting into trouble. We wanted the scene to end with the teacher saying how the sisters are always perfect and how she’ll be telling their mother of Peter’s terrible behaviour. We then developed a back and forth between the two sisters telling Peter how he has no talent and is letting their mother down.

However we faced several difficulties with this scene. Firstly we couldn’t decide on how we wanted to perform the music and initially settled on singing a cappella to a song that could be recognised by our audience. However when we tried various songs they all felt rather flat and the scene felt as if it was dragging. We then tried adding claps and stomps in but neither of these elements did much to improve the performance of the song. 

Another issue we had was the moment when Peggy and Penny start teasing Peter. We started with having them circling him as they insulted him but it felt too static. We then looked at them pushing and shoving Peter showing their power over him but again this didn’t work effectively. On top of this we struggled to get the lines to flow and so there were awkward pauses between the remarks when it should have been a constant rally of teasing.

We then came to the decision as a group that the scene didn’t feel as if it was going to add anything of importance to the piece, and we felt the quality of it was much lower than our other scenes. This led to usdeciding to push it aside for the moment and possibly return to it if we found a better way to approach it or felt it was an integral part of the story.

 

The Pig Siblings at the Wendy House