Development of 'The Pied Piper' performance.

Choosing which masks we were going to where in the performance was a difficult process as we had to choose from three mask types, neutral masks, Trestle Theatre masks or counter masks.

To help us decide, we did many activities with the various masks.

Firstly, we experimented with Trestle Theatre masks. In this activity, we were in groups of fours had hads to choose from one of  the two scenarios we were given.

My group chose the 'Going on Holiday' scenario where we had to perform a short scene using these masks.

Below is a timelapse of our performance.

Development of 'The Pied Piper' performance.

In these group discussions, we had decided upon topics such as possible scenarios and costumes.

One idea we came up with was to show the Pied Piper as an alien as in the tale we had read, he appeared to be a mysterious character.

We decided the Pied Piper should wear a shiny cape so we used a coloured scarf from the props to display it on the character.

This is what the first interpretation of the Pied Piper. The Pied Piper is portrayed as unique and mysterious by wearing an unusual shaped mask.

Despite proposing this idea for the character of the Pied Piper, in our final performance we did not go for these particular costume choices.

Development of 'The Pied Piper' performance.

During the early stages of planning our performance, we had created two brainstorms/mindmaps about possible scenarios and plots that we could include in our performance. 


Whilst doing this we were also verbally discussing ideas. Below is a short timelapse of this group discussion

Development of 'The Pied Piper' performance.

One of the activities the group participated in at the beginning was adjusting and adapting to Counter Masks; this helped us become familiar with various types of masks. 


These types of masks has different expressions on them such as, happy, sad and upset. As there are no 'mouth holes' in the masks, it was very difficult to speak therefore, we had to use body language to adjust and work with the masks. 

Here is a video of one of the activities that helped me adjust to the mask I was wearing. We were given a script whilst working in pairs and one person in the pair had to use their voice to communicate, whilst the other person, who was wearing the mask, has to use body language to communicate.