So...Setting?

The second component in our objective and obstacle exercise was to create the setting for our performance. Because our characters were two 13 year old girls, we decided that the setting would be somewhere at school. We first thought of having the performance take place on the school benches but it seemed like an ordinary, uninteresting setting. As we were discussing various options, another classmate suggested that we could be on a swing set at the school playground. This ended up being our setting because with a swing set, we could incorporate motion into our performance rather than merely sitting throughout the entire performance. In order to pantomime swings we rocked our chairs to imitate the motions of swings.