Plan for Political Protest

^Our Desk Sign

The theme of our protest is immigration. It’s revolved around the idea of a strict boarder control and harsh policies which play to an advantage of the UK however doesn’t help other people from outside of it. We want it to be located at the top of the stairs before the main doors, that way we’ll grab a lot of people’s attention going to and from the building. The barriers are used as a property to create the barriers of the border control next to the patrol officers. We also want to use it as a display for posters signs and facts to help back up our piece. The montage/ poster collage is in black and white with a striking red sprayed sign-‘let more in’. This refers to our principal point of allowing more people beyond the border into the UK as life is a bigger challenge is some areas and doesn’t provide as many facilities or development. The very centre on either side of the fencing is where the table/desk stands for border patrol. This is the space where Delainey and Gabriel stand to decide whether a person should or shouldn’t be allowed to move on. In a way and to some extent they are allowed to pick out racial stereotypes and question people’s nationality to play with the idea of restricted placement within Britain. I’ve made a poster which is a key of symbols to indicate the authority of different people. As actors we get to choose and judge people or randomly pick out one of the three. Obviously anyone labelled with the red cross ( an unwanted outsider  ) will get a harsher reaction and impertinent approach to them. This way we get to cause a bit of trouble and chaos which will help the audience question the matter. They get to interrogate the audience and ask about their background, surnames and any sort of reason to degrade them as a minority. As a way for the message to stick with the audience members we've decided to stamp them with those symbols ; either a green dash, red cross or blue circle, to make them feel more immersed and involved in the piece.

We will hang these posters up on bins and barriers for the audience to find an easy way of understanding why we've categorised them with symbols.

Costume: 

Myself: I've layered up with blankets and long baggy clothing on a cold day as a struggling immigrant. In addition I used the affect of makeup to build up a battered ,dirty and bruised face. We've developed a character for myself as a single mother with a child/baby doll to her chest ,to beg the audience around me for essential items. I'll stick to speaking in polish so that people understand i'm not from this country and link to the theme of migration. From now and again i'll use single english words such as 'food' or 'water' to clarify and hint my needs.
I'm going to keep to the script of 'please sir/miss i'm very hungry. do you have any water/food you'd offer me? Please I have a young child...'

Delainey and Gabriel: As evident in the picture both of them dressed up as boarder control. However we decided to add a twist with Gabriel and make it a bit more meaningful as the same role. Delainey stuck to the more recognisable costume as an interrogating security guard/ boarder patrol. Her attire consisted of dark colours, a puffy jacket, a megaphone with which facts and insults could be addressed and a security badge. Gabriel got hold of a yellow jumpsuit and blue gloves to cover the idea of someone who is in a place of infection. The infection being those with red crosses or my character: the immigrants.

We used illustrated some of our research into the posters. We were already aware of the story of the drowned boy who was washed up on a beach. Even though it was very disturbing we decided to include the explicit image around the school of the migrant crisis.