Everyman - Benji's Actor Log

21.11.17 Today we managed to finally get a look at the material I would using to wrap people in when I kill them. We had this stretchy material that we decided to pull over them from the bottom up. Once it is over them they struggle from within and it gives this awesome, grotesque image of being wrapped in deaths wrath. We re-looked at the opening section. For the opening sequence, we have added in a part for about half the cast to use barbies during the part where we stamp and throw our fists in the air, they are holding barbies and dolls instead. It is all to do with growing up and being an adult. It also links to the part when I push Ev off the balcony and get a barbie doll and make it fall from the balcony as well. The barbies are a metaphor for all people, and at one point I hold a barbie as Death, and the barbie is everyman. It shows how small they are to me and how I can easily manipulate them.   22.11.17 Today we ran my first scene with Everyman and G...

The Somonyng of Everyman (The Summoning of Everyman), usually referred to simply as Everyman, is a late 15th-century morality play. Like John Bunyan's 1678 Christian novel The Pilgrim's Progress, Everyman uses allegorical and symbolic characters to examine the question of Christian salvation and what Man must do to attain it. The premise is that all the good and bad deeds you do in your life are counted by God after you die. Everyman tries to convince other characters to accompany him in the hope of improving his account. All the characters are also symbolic, each personifying an abstract idea such as Fellowship, Goods, and Knowledge. Everyman eventually comes to the realisation that he is alone and none of the things and people he deemed necessities were actually there to vouch for him. The play was originally written in middle english during the Tudor period and the identity of the author is unknown. The play was apparently produced with some frequency in the seventy-five y...