Death Movement

The penultimate scene of LTROI sees the death of my character Jonny as well as the characters Mikie and Jimmy whom are viciously killed by Eli during an attack on Oskar. Thomas Alfredson's depiction of this scene in his 2008 cover was amazing; the screen is mostly covered with Oskar's face whilst the action takes place behind him completely oblivious. In honesty,the audience miss the majority of the action however are allowed to let their imaginations run free as what they do see are limbs falling and legs flying revealing Eli's true power, not to mention the gruesome sights one blood after Oskar is rescued. Similarly with the Apollo theatres adaptation of the scene the audience aren't able to see much other than the odd movement of a body being thrown in the red strobes however again the audience could quite clearly see Oskar, again under the water and well lit in a blue uplight. Though the scene still manages to keep the audience engaged as a large tension build up before the scene means the audience are on the edge of their seats asking who is Oskar's savour? Will Oskar survive? and simply because it's difficult to see, what's happening? 

Revolution Arts has taken a different approach in that we want to reveal to the audience as many gruesome details as we can to the audience about Eli's malicious killing of 'the bullies' therefore the stage shall be lit blue, to create the effect of the pool, with red strobes for added atmosphere and hopefully more tension. When choreographing this movement, myself and Jake Kavagner had a large amount of input. In doing so I tried to add a lot of throws and lifts instead of kicks and punches because I felt it was important to show that Eli was almost torturing them; in short she could simply feed on them and that'd be that but instead she takes a brutal turn, in the film for example, as previously mentioned, she rips them limb by limb. Furthermore I felt that the movement had to be fluent, because Eli is a fantastic swift killer, which is why I often suggested Amanda, Eli, throw us, the bullies, placing us across the stage ready for the next sequence of movements.
At first the scene simply ended with Eli circling Jonny, then snapping his neck however this wasn't nearly dramatic enough for the final death and so we later developed the killing eventually ending with Eli about to sink her teeth into Jonny's neck but realising that she isn't there to feed and that Jonny isn't worth feeding on, instead she is there solely to save Oskar.