Using Stimuluses to Make a Final Performance :: Acting Education Drama Theatre Essays

Using Stimul gives to Make a nett PerformanceFor our drama portfolio we were given many antithetic stimuli to workwith that each gave us different ideas for our final performance. Ichoose two stimuli and employ them to develop ideas. My first stimulus Iwould like to talk around is a sentence al just about poppies that was given tous. We took our stimulus and brainstormed ideas. We looked atdifferent drama strategies to employ that would help us understand thetext. The sentence, which was about poppies make us concentrate on theaspect of war. Therefore death was the main idea merely not necessarilydue to war but to other rea countersigns. Poppies are red and red symbolisesblood, death, danger, wrong and mania. As wellhead as the performanceconsisting of pain an idea would be to also deliver love. So we werethinking of a performance with a contrast of love and death. Loss willconvey the blood death and danger so we should use loss as a mainelement in spite of appearance the piece. However, we were forgetting what poppiesactually are flowers. This obvious aspect should be included, as apoppy is obviously a flower and death is an obvious element at bottomwar. They are both stating the obvious and therefore some strategiesshould be use to gain ideas from this aspect of poppies. We used hotseating on individual who is a presenter at a garden show. We selectedsome sentences about flowers and thought of using narrating to saythem. At the same we created some lock in images that were related tothe text to investigate the link between the poppies and the idea of anxious(p) in war. We now had a few initial ideas that could be veritablefurther and used at bottom our final piece.My second stimulus was to be put in the position of a mother. I wastold that my son had been absent in action and I receive a letterfrom him which is moxie dated two months ago. We took our stimulus andstarted to create ideas again. We took into account the time conclusionand how life would be different then. We concentrated on the parentsand sons relationship and the parents priorities. What would be themost important thing in their life at that moment in time? There weremany aspects to consider so we decided to use hot seating as our firststrategy. We also had to consider the conditions the son was living inas it was set in the war. It was important for the listening tounderstand the atmosphere not only with the setting but within the