Viel Larm um nichts

 REHEARSAL:

Today we developed all 3 ideas.
Yesterday, Elsa brought in a song as a stimulus to go alongside James concept of Auschwitz.
"Ah poor bird,
Take thy flight,
High above the sorrows
Of this dark night"

Idea 1: AUSCHWITZ:

James brought in a true story about one of the holocaust survivors.
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http://muchadoparrettjung.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/much-ado-about-nothing-idea.html
From this we were thinking about how the woman and the guard could represent Beatrice and Benedict. The reason we thought this is because their love is not really supposed to happen and shouldn't happen but still it does. Further, the woman testifies for the guard at his war crimes trial (even though nothing more happened between them) this shows that their love was strong despite everything she saw him do.
Hero and Claudio could represent the sisterly love.

Idea 2: WITCH TRIALS

This was Elsa's input: Elsa wanted to go through the route of how Hero is automatically accused of adultery without a fair trail and without her being able to say otherwise. This links to the mistreatment of women and how they are seen as possessions. She looked back into history and found that the miss cause of justice links back to innocent women being wrongly accused of witchcraft.

Idea 3: ADULTERY 

Natalie's thoughts were about again how Hero is accused of adultery mixed with feminism and how back in the 1900s onwards to about 1940s women were seen as housewives expected to do all the house work and rearing the children and looking after her husband. In addition, the representation of adultery in the media is usually stereotyped as it is the men causing the upset however in Much Ado About Nothing is it infact Hero that has supposedly been 'cheating'.