Yesterday I worked with my group for the first time.
We started devising our piece, after reminding each other what our characters are like.

Jake-(Harry) and Katina-(Me) are going out in the performance and Maria-(Greta) and Becca-(Michelle) are best friends.

Our piece is about 4 people who go on a party ship, on the party ship Jake has an affair with Maria and thinks his girlfriend; Katina doesn't know anything about it. He is very much wrong, he finds out she knows when they're all isolated in a cabin.

We came up with this idea by doing a couple of mind maps for ideas.
The mind maps consisted of our ideas and plots on what to do for our piece.
One of them said what era it's set in- modern day...

Our original idea was that we were all on the party boat, partying and I'm good friends with Jake and Becca is best friends with Maria.
Jake and Maria have a history-(one night stand) and on the boat Jake doesn't recognise Maria, but she recognises him and those have conflict because of this. We changed it because if we just had arguing all the way through there's a possibility of it getting boring and the audience losing interest in the performance.
So to change our piece we made it so Jake and I are going out.
I then out about Jake having an affair with Maria, but I don't mention it, I just want Jake to tell me so I feel like I can trust him again.
When I find out about the affair, I go straight from the party into a little cabin on my own to think things through. When Jake follows me into the cabin he tries winding me up into going back onto the top deck, where the party is but I refuse. After a little while of Jake practically begging for me to go-(and failing) Maria gets pushed into our cabin to wait for her friend Becca. However where Maria didn't know that Jake was in a relationship straight away she turns to him and says "What's your name again?" then sees me and freaks out. Then just as she leaves her friend shows up and tells us all that we have to stay in the cabin as there's a storm coming. So we're all sat awkwardly for ages in a cramped little cabin room.

We changed our piece to this because we thought that we could build on the tension and we could have a well structured argument without shouting. Also we've made Michelle's character more funny to lighten the mood.