The use of music

We had music throughout the piece to change the atmosphere between scenes but to also have all of them connected in someway. With all the scenes being separate from each other the use of music throughout the repetition of some of the songs made the piece flow better for the audience. Brecht uses song and the use of music remind the audience that they are watching a play sometime the music is in contrast to the scene with distances the audience even more. Unlike naturalism, our music choices couldn't be historically accurate because or show didn't have a time period or a place it was set. Most of the music we used was about love or they were sensual sings that the audience associated with romance which contrasted about the topic of rape.

The beginning song we used whas “toothpaste kisses” by the Maccabees, it's the same song that is used in the video we found about physical theatre and World War We all really loved this song and with the begin being odd and not suggesting the topic of the piece it lord our audience into a false sense of security that we used to our advantage as the piece became darker.

We next used a 1929s tune called building nests for Marry

we used this to add humor and sarcasm to contrast what we were saying. As the song starts the frits words we say are “sex education women can't say” in a way to mock the traditional thinking of the 1950s where sex education wasn't taught properly. We also wanted to draw parallels to our own education system now and how nothing has really changed. During this the music cuts of as the questions become more serious regarding consent, this is the only time the music cuts of telling the audience that it only gets darker from here. During the rest of the show, the music is continuous.

We then use a song called “the ripe and ruin”

by Alt-j an artist we do use multiple times in the show. This song is repeated at every movement transition between scenes, we chose to do this because originally we had the idea of using poems instead but the amount of time needed to find and learn them would have been too much for the amount of rehearsal time we had. The decision to repeat this scene was because it's not exactly a song, there is no music it's purely acapella and is done more like a spoken word poem rather than it being sung. The lyrics also related to the piece with lines like “she looks up at the blue, and whispers to all of the above, done let me drown don't breath alone no kicks no pangs no broken bones”. And as we listened to this is what we thought it must feel like to be a victim of rape or being in a toxic relationship, the feeling of being drowned.

The next scene was the movement peace with myself and Elliot again we use a song by Alt-j at the beginning we had two choices that we couldn't decide between “Fitzpleasure” again used by Tian and Harrison in there physical theatre piece and “Tessellate”. We did choose Tessellate in the end because the change between the previous and this sounded better but also tessellate was softer so it worked a lot better with the story we wanted to show. Again the lyrics had the meaning behind and depending on how the individual watch the movement everyone had their own interpretation. “Three guns and one goes off, one empty one's not quick enough”

The next song used was vicious mercury by why these coyotes,  This song was originally going to be “purple skies” by the same band but we chose against it because of the change by the end of the song where there is a consistent blues tone with mercury. The scene is very relaxed with a monologue and mirroring and the song added to the atmosphere despite the character discussing what happened to her at work.

It then continues by going in to “Dancing around the fire” again by Why these coyotes We chose to use the same artist after the last song because the two scenes despite being separate I think they fit together with the use of the music choices, There quite similar songs with the blues and slow beat, a poem being read over the song also fit in the way the verses were said “everything you can't control let it go, dance around the fire tonight” with the poem being emotional and personal than with the facts being said coldly there's that contrast again as we tried to show how women's stories are being ignored and they are becoming statistic. The song plays till the end as we repeated “toothpaste kisses” at the end of the performance. We knew from the start that repeating the beginning was important not only to clarify the metaphor but to also tie the whole piece together and with the use of the same song again I think this really worked.

We did practice with this music in rehearsal and it wasn't a latsminutee addition we had, the music stayed with us through the reading process either by playing it on my phone through spotify or on the college computer. We made an effort to stay away from tropes like using The XX which we feel is over done and in every show that touches on a serious topic we wanted to have a unique tone to our show that had not been done before and with the use of out music choice i definitely feel this was succeeded.