The Endings

We devised two possible endings.

The first possible ending was to have everyone on stage sitting in the pairs they had for the women’s tracing the outline section.  We all looked at James and Molly who had finished the section before. Remembrance poppies would then fall down all around us.

This visually looked good and was quite emotional but I feel like we could have pushed it further. I also think there could have been deeper meanings involved.

The second possible ending was that the soldiers created five lines around the existing men from the couples.  The idea was for the soldiers to kneel down row by row. Cameron led this by coming on last. This symbolised the grave stones of the soldiers. The women would then wonder through this “grave” looking for their loved one. When they found that person they would kneel down next to them.  James and Molly stood in the middle of the stage embracing throughout all of this. When everyone was sitting the poppies were released.

This ending was much more interesting and I feel as if this has a lot of deep meaning and emotion packed into it. It visually looks amazing and is clear in what we are trying to show. I think this ending is a great conclusion to the performance, it is a very poignant ending to a very poignant performance.