Today in lesson we started too talked about our next unit in drama which is going to be our second devised piece but this devised piece is going to be created through workshopping ideas. We were given the title of our piece which is going to be “Humanity in crisis”. We then split ourselves into 2 groups, my group members are me, Dan M, Meg, Toby, Carl and Kyle. We were also given a couple of pictures of refugees, Serbia in ruins, id of kinder transport and foreigners being denied access to safe areas. With all of our stimuli in mind we proceeded to create a spider diagram on all the thoughts we had to do with our theme.
My initial ideas and thoughts of humanity in crisis is nonbias events that caused suffering like Earthquakes, Tusnamis, my thought was natural disaters as these are event that we have no control over that causes crisies all over the world. I didn't think of events like Consentration Camps, 9 11 or hillsbourgh as these events have bias issues only effecting select groups and were control by another individual or group. To me Humanity in crisis would be an event that effected everyone no matter their race, age, gender or the fact if their good or bad because to me humaintiy is all of us a collective being effected and if were in crisis it would be a event that effected all of us not just a group of us or was caused by us.
“Humanity in Crisis”
· War
· Mental health
· Baptist church
· extremists
· Poverty
· Hillsborough
· National disasters
· Government
· Politics
· Refugees
· Conspiracy
· Slavery
· Conflict
· Terrorism
· Cold war
· Religion division
· IRA
· Nazi’s
· Homophobia
· Xenophobia
· Prejudice
· Dictatorship
· Prison
· Militia
· Anarchists
· Hierarchy
· Royalty
· Technology
· Margret thatcher
· KKK
· Nuclear weapons
· Fall out
· Civil war
· Financial
· Overpopulation
· 9/11
· Torture
We then went off and created a piece of drama using one of the words from our diagram in 20 minutes. We talked about it and chose “refugees” and created a piece inspired by this. We decided that we wanted to do a physical theatre piece around our chosen theme. Our piece started with Kyle and Toby walking on and meeting in the centre; after they meet they fall to the ground, Dan M and Meg then enter and do the same followed by me and Carl. We all then rise and stand in a line to be shot before we fall dead. We then clump together around me rocking side to side to symbolise that we are on a refugee boat, each person slowly peel away from me from and spread around the room. I then run to one of then who covers their eyes and turn around, I repeat this with 3 other people which is to symbolise how other countries turn their backs on people when they need help. The fifth person hugs me to show that he is the kind country who is looking out for others. We performed our piece to the son “I can feel a hot one” by Manchester orchestra.
This is a picture of refugees traveling to a new home. this is ispirational as it was one of our groups first thoughts when we were told about 'humainty in crisis' as well as what we have based our first piece around. the physical theatre piece we created was a nice start to what could potentaily could be our devised pieceon seperate stories of refugees after escapig their country and what happens to them.
This is another idea i had with our topic of humanity in crisis invovling tragic stories based around the natural disaters we have no control over. We could choose any natural disater and created a series of stories around the survivers, what happens to them after the event, them searching for somewhere safe, who they have lost and so on...
This photo helpped me think about political scandels and how as a group we natural try to benefit ourseleves at the cost of others happyness. This idea has alot of potentail for naturalism scene but not as much for the physical theatre side but i still believe this would be a good idea.
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