Our first week
The week after the kids party we spent devising and starting
to get some solid ideas down for what we wanted to take on tour. We made a
group decision to drop the pirate story as there were not many legends that
were appropriate for a young audience and all the ones that were appropriate
were not the best of stories we could use. However we did like that it was
based in a school.
As we were down to now a minimal idea we decided to do some
research on what other plays have been made that are out there already. We used
multiple websites to get some genre and plot ideas, here are the links we used
…
Lazy bee scripts were a link that we all found the most
helpful. We found a genre on there that we hadn’t thought of before, it’s
called a ‘WhoDunIt’ genre. We thought this was a very original type of piece to
do, so we can be different from other groups who we will be going on tour with.
We made a mind map of the plot.
In keeping with our original idea we still
have the play based in a school. We thought maybe it could be 5 children in a
detention room because one of them could have done something wrong and we were
trying to figure it out. The struggle was trying to think up why they would be
there in the first place. There were many ideas for example, stealing, setting
the fire alarm off, leaving school premises, etc. All of these were good ideas,
but they were quite strong as we want our piece to be a comedy. So we thought
of things that primary schools might do or have, this resulted in coming up
with the idea of someone had stolen the school hamster.
We wanted it to be a bit like the game Cluedo and everyone
in detention had to explain where they were on the day Mr. Snuggles (the
hamster). We started off by figuring out how we should start the play and we
scripted it. We then showed this to our peers and tutors, we got some
feedback and we then got given a 2nd year to help us with the
development of the piece. This helped a lot as we got the first persons story
done and we did it in the form of a court scene. Here are the videos.
We then thought it might be a cool idea to incorporate some
sounds that turn out to be quite musical just like the children’s theatre
performance we went to go and watch. We also had feedback that told us that the
teacher multi roling coming in at that begging didn’t work, so we decided to
cut the teacher all together and get the kids in detention to explain the
situation that they are in.
Footage of our first performance that we showed to peers and tutors...
Footage of our first performance that we showed to peers and tutors...
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