"Escape" Scene

So, a scene Michael and I have been looking at recently is called "Escape".  It is one of the scenes I wrote which we have decided to use in our devised piece of theatre.

The scene itself displays two people who want to escape their surroundings and get themselves excited but by the end of the scene they have managed to convince themselves out of it.  This is a metaphor for how in our lives, there will be goals and objectives which we set ourselves which we will not achieve, and that some people allow the fear of the unknown and the future to dictate their lives.  This is portrayed in how the two men are extremely eager to get away and yet can't bring themselves to do it out of fear and a lack of security; even though the grass is clearly greener on the other side.

When we were looking at performing this, we attempted different techniques in order to try and help ourselves with the characterisation process of the scene.  We tried several different scenarios, playing the scene with a variation of characters and settings from from young boys in a school corridor to patients in a psychiatric ward, in order to try and get it fixed in our minds how we intended to play the scene, even though the scene itself is left very open to the audience's interpretation.  From this, Michael and I believe we have a much stronger sense of understanding around our characters now, and that we can perform as them effectively in scene.