Twelfth Night work

During today's rehearsals we looked at our extract from Twelfth Night. Chloe who plays Olivia wasn't in so we focused on the beginning of the piece as that contained the characters Feste and Maria. As we have decided as a class to set this play in a school environment we looked as the concept of our extract and how we could change it to fit the theme. We decided that as the fool, Feste will remain the silly funny character but Maria will be a nerdy stuck up character which is easily broken by Feste's cheeky comical ways. This scene follows the theme of polar opposites as shown through the characters of both Maria and Feste and also OLivia and Feste in our extract. Firstly Maria is developed as quite a cruel character within this play but in our scene she is very ridged character in contrast to Feste who is full of folly and hasn't got a care in the world, Feste is a very humble fool who is extremely witty and down to earth, this contrast Maria at the start of the scene but as she relaxes and starts to banter with Feste a common ground is shown between servants. Olivia enters next and has a clear contrast to Feste not only in character but in status; we are depicting this through having her enter at the highest level on stage to show her power and ladyship in comparison to Feste being a servant. This theme could easily be modernized to suit a modern audience by fitting in with the school theme through having two characters such as a queen bee bitch character and a shy wall flower.