Jan 4th: Drama

On January 4^th, we presented our work to everybody else.  I thought that some people had some really good and unusual ideas such as Frankie who decided to do about gender equality.  This was a different idea to everybody else’s because the majority of people decided to do about really serious and what could be viewed as upsetting subjects such as anorexia, suicide and child abuse.  I thought that everybody did well with their chosen topic and had a good amount of research.  I also think that their actual presentation skills were good as well as the work they did as I understood all they were saying and learnt a lot from it.  Seb had a good piece of research as he was investigation children in divorced/divorcing families.  He did a page with his own account on it as he has experienced this situation.  This is a good primary source and it will help him even more because it happened to him and he knows how it felt.

We then got into groups.  We did this by grouping together all the people with similar subjects such as anorexia and suicide and they were in a group together however, there was a bit of a muddle up when it came to grouping the rest of us as we all had contrasting research.  In the end, we chose a subject someone had done and then chose among us who would o which subject.  I’m in a group with Frankie, Olly and Jack and our piece is on gender equality.

I felt quite disappointed that my research wasn’t to be used at all because i put a lot of hard work into it but I’m not the only one so I don’t mind too much.  I learnt a lot from other peoples presentations such as, men get paid more for playing football than women and that anorexia is most common in teenage girls. 

I don’t think that you have to be passionate or interested in a theme or topic to make a successful piece of drama on it although i do think that it helps because if you are interested in your theme, you’re gonna try harder and have more research more on it.  Also, you will have more ideas and contributions that make the drama impact more on the audience.  If you don’t believe in what you’re doing, then the audience wont and you want to give off a good vibe because if you don’t, then the audience won’t be engaged and will loose interest ans you could come across problem with contribution when it comes to forum theatre.