Category: Communication

Main idea

The main idea of this performance is based on the stimulus which was the song 7 years by Lukas Graham and the song is about his life, what he went through due to his biological father leaving when he was born and how at 7 years old he was told by his mother to make some friends otherwise he would live a pretty lonely childhood. By eleven years those friends had influenced him to possess and use drugs and also to consume spirits and he goes on about when he is 30 years old and how his life has changed due to the path he chose to goes down which was music and finally he goes on to the age of 60 where he hates the world and hopes his children visit a few times a month.

Characters
JOSE- Lukas as a – Seven year old, a friend of eleven year old Lukas, fan of 30 year old Lukas

KARVER- Lukas as a – Eleven year old, fan of 30 year old Lukas, son of 60 year old Lukas, Mother of seven years old Lukas

MAKAI – NARRATOR(Lukas) Lukas as a – Thirty year old and 60 year old, Father of eleven year old lukas

dramatic techniques

1.) we all are playing the same character in the same order of the song, I am eleven year old lukas and my props im using is a alcohol bottle to symbolise that i am drinking alcohol at eleven years old when I’m not even close to be allowed to drink at the legal age of eighteen and my friends are around me participating in the act, then my father shows up has a chat with me about how ive been and what im doing is wrong and not doing my mother any good because she has to be constantly worrying about me.

Rehearsal techniques
There was no way possible that we could rehearse this performance as it was a improvised performance

Costume

KARVER: OFF-WHITE TRACKSUIT, WHITE CREW NECK T-SHIRT, WHITE BASIC TRAINERS

MAKAI: RIPPED JEANS, HOODLESS BOMBER JACKET, HIGH FASHIONED TRAINERS

LIGHTING TECHNIQUES

The lighting is a major contribution to the way the audience feel about our performance. The reason why we use lighting in our performance is because it helps the audience put themselves in our shoes too really get a grip of how the character we are playing really feels.

RED LIGHT- THE RED LIGHT REPRESENTS HURT, ANGER AND HOSTILITY: YOU CAN SEE IN MY PRESENTATION WHEN GABRIEL PUTS ON A SAD FACE AND YOU CAN ALMOST RELATE TO HIS FACE BECAUSE THE RED LIGHT THAT SHINES ON HIM AND THE BACKGROUND REALLY ADD A EMPHASIS ON THE EMOTIONS BEING FELT.

BLUE LIGHT- THE BLUE LIGHT REPRESENTS CONFUSION, AND REGRET: YOU CAN SEE IN MY PRESENTATION THAT WHEN GABRIEL PULLS A CONFUSED FACE THE BLUE LIGHT THAT SHINES ON HIM AND THE BACKGROUND CAN REALLY BRING OUT THE EMOTIONS IN A CHARACTER AND IT ALSO MAKES THE AUDIENCE TRY AND UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION.

WHITE LIGHT- THE WHITE LIGHT REPRESENT HAPPINESS AND DAYTIME: YOU CAN SEE IN MY PRESENTATION THAT WHEN THE WHITE LIGHT IS SHINING ON GABRIELS FACE AS HE IS PULLING A HAPPY FACE, THE LIGHT ADDS MORE EMPHASIS TO THE PERFORMANCE BECAUSE IT CAN HELP THE AUDIENCE FIGURE OUT THE EMOTIONS BEHIND THE LIGHTING I HAVE CHOSE

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to defer the external performance of your “Oh What a Lovely War!” piece until Tuesday 19th of June (a one week deferral).

You will now be timetabled in lessons as normal tomorrow.

Our apologies for the lateness of this notice.

PARAGRAPH 1
Macbeth:
In the beginning of the play Macbeth, the emotions being portrayed are shocked and disbelief, Macbeth is told Banquo is going to be king and he himself will be the thane of Cawdor and he doesn’t like that. So he starts having a go at the witches complaining about why he has to be the thane of Cawdor and at the end of the scene he says ” stands not within the prospect of belief, meaning that he has made a decision of him not believing what he has just heard about the future.

Scrooge:
In the beginning of the novel A Christmas , the emotions being portrayed are spitefulness and lack of sympathy, This happens when Scrooge is approached by a charity worker and asked to make a small contribution to the less fortunate and the dying and Scrooge replies by saying “if they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population. That tells me that Scrooge is heartless and doesn’t care about what is being said and he doesn’t care about other peoples feelings.

Conclusion:
In conclusion both protagonists have different types of emotions but they have the same mentality when it comes to anger. the reason why I say that because when Macbeth got angry he demanded the witches to tell him more and when he gets angry because he doesn’t get his own way, which in Scrooges case is the same because when he told the charity worker to leave him alone the first time and the charity worker just begged him even more to contribute Scrooge said what he said about them needing to die more quicker in order to decrease the large population. so in conclusion when it comes to anger both Macbeth and Scrooge can relate.

PARAGRAPH 2
Macbeth:
Towards the middle of the of the play, the emotions being portrayed are confusion and disbelief, Lady Macbeth gets into Macbeths head and forces him to go and kill Banquo and when Macbeth is making his way to Banquo he starts to have hallucinations and he starts to question why he has a dagger in each hand and then he feels the need to hold them and then he the starts not to believe that the daggers are real which leads me to the emotion he is feeling is confusion.

Scrooge:
Towards the middle of the story, the emotions being portrayed are fear and stubbornness, Scrooge gets a visit from the ghost of Christmas past which his best friend Marley that passed away and when Scrooge doesn’t listen, Marley tell him that he is here to make Scrooge realize that the way he treated people was horrible and that no one will like him in the future and Scrooge chooses to ignore him and Marley leaves and that tells me that Scrooge is very stubborn and doesn’t like to be told the truth about him self.

Conclusion:
In conclusion Macbeth and Scrooges emotions are completely opposite but there is some similarities within both there situations, In Macbeths case he is being forced to kill his Friend over a title of authority and power but Scrooge is being forced to have a look at his previous ways in terms of attitude and how he treated people. In conclusion both Scrooge and Macbeth can relate in terms of the situations they are in.

PARAGRAPH 3
Macbeth:
In the middle and towards the end of the play, the emotions being portrayed are guilt and hesitation, Macbeth is having a banquet with everyone and there is a spare seat and Macbeth starts to act weird and he freaks out because he has seen Banquo’s ghost, but Macbeth thinks that it is the real Banquo and not realizes that its just a ghost and he then turns to Lady Macbeth and says to her that his mind is full of scorpions and how Banquo is still alive and that tells me that when he saw Banquo’s ghost he did not want anything to to with him because he is guilty that he killed his best friend for a title of power and authority.

Scrooge:
In the middle and towards the end of the play, the emotions being portrayed are understanding and guilt, Scrooge gets a visit from the ghost of Christmas present and it tells him that what he is doing now is wrong and he is heavily hated by the community that he lives in and if he carries on that way he will die a lonely man and once again Scrooge doesn’t listen to the advice being given and he carries on. But then he gets another visit, this time its from the ghost of Christmas future and it shows him his future and that he is spending the rest of his days lonely and no one even noticing him while he walks down the street and Scrooge realized what he has done has totally made him a very hated man and he doesn’t like that.

Conclusion:
In conclusion Macbeth’s and Scrooges emotions are the same because even though they both have done different things, they both have affected somebody whether its physical or mental and in that aspect they can both relate to each-other because they eventually realize near the end of the story that what they have done is indeed wrong and need to find a way to change what has happened is wrong.
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MACBETH:
At the end of the play, the emotions that are being portrayed are fear and merciless, At the end of the story it comes out that Macbeth was the one that murdered Banquo for his title and Lady Macbeth ends up taking her own life so her name does not have her name being brought up in the situation, and Macbeth finally comes to his senses and realizes that he played himself by listening to lady Macbeth. in the end he goes top battle and runs into Banquos son Fleance, they fight each-other and Fleance ends up killing Macbeth and beheading him as revenge for his father being killed.

SCROOGE:
At the end of the story, the emotions being portrayed are remorse and happiness, Scrooge now realizes he needs to change his ways, so on Christmas morning he makes his way to his colleagues house on his way he greets everybody and tells them merry Christmas, he also spots the charity worker and apologizes and gives him a small donation, and when he gets to his colleagues house he offers him a pay rise and will on top help him out will his family and their struggles.

CONCLUSION:
In conclusion, Macbeth and scrooge both have remorse in common because they both have either physically or mentally hurt someone and they begin to realize its time to change but Scrooge does and Macbeth becomes even more savage until his reign of terror has ended as revenge form Banquos son Fleance because Macbeth was the one responsible for killing his Father for the title of king.

There are a lot of people for and against the death penalty, but in my opinion the against people are just following the crowd and not really sticking up for themselves; perhaps they are just scared of what others are going to say and scared that they will be judged and that is one of the main reasons why the situation isn’t brought up in the open and discussed. The fact is, it is easy for people to make simplistic arguments against the death penalty rather than for it: the arguments for the death penalty are much harder to put in place. However I am going to argue that the death penalty should be brought back – in this day and age it comes across as citizens of the UK are committing foul crimes and simply getting away with it by serving 10 years and then getting set free to do it again but ten times worse.

If I was to bring back the death penalty, it would be essential that I would have to perform the act under strict knowledge of the background and the reason for the individual to have their life taken as a punishment. There are many grey areas where people are let off the hook simply because of their mental illness or their disability and sometimes it can be unfair because they will have acknowledged that what they have done was wrong and just because they are mentally ill or disabled the time given is shortened by a milestone or they are just given community service as opposed to the average citizen who would have got ten plus years with no parole.

There is the argument that is often put forward that people who are for the death penalty would not be prepared to actually press the button to kill someone, and having on their mind that they have ended a life .To counter the argument being put across, I would be prepared to take on the role myself to be the executioner: I would be taking a stand on the behalf of the people who are too scared to do it. Obviously I wouldn’t like to kill someone, but it’s about time that someone did what was right and prove a point that people need to be punished for their actions.

Keeping prisoners in prison for 30+ years is just a waste of time because they are going to die in prison anyway and it is costing the government £65,000 to actually have someone imprisoned, and after that it costs £40,000 for each year that individual is imprisoned. So if some one was imprisoned for 73 years, by the end of the sentence a total of £2,920,000 would have been spent on one person rather than on something that could go to a good cause. Research shows that 75% of prisoners that are released will re-offend and go back toi prison costing even more money

In conclusion , I am not convinced that prison teaches offenders a lesson. Prisons are overcrowded and over funded and rehabilitation is last on the agenda. By contrast, the death penalty teaches others about the consequences of their actions, and in Japan the death penalty is used as a disincentive. although there are many arguments against the death penalty, the fact remains that there are a few cases where it serves a useful purpose.

“yes , as sparrow eagles, or the hare the lion”- here macbeth really starts to show whats on his mind and how savage his thoughts are and he can compare to Scrooge because scrooges first outburst consists of some pretty spiteful things when he is asked to donate some money to a charity worker who helps dying people Scrooge replies with ” if they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population. between the two characters you can the extreme emotions that are shown are quite similar because they both consist of the intention of hurting someone macbeth is to physically hurt some one but Scrooge on the other hand is aiming to hurt some one mentally and even though there not the same person they have a very similar mindsets w=in the aspect that they dont not feel guilt when they know they have done something wrong but they choose to carry on.

Macbeth: In the beginning, you can see that there is no visible flaws, but as if you pay attention to the way his friends talk about him being such a good leader and strong, noble warrior, others say he is a more cold and brutal warrior. By them saying he’s a cold warrior suggests to me that he might be getting carried away and acting in a savage manner and I think it could cause him to constantly think that way bringing out his darker side on the people he cares about.

His first flaw would be when my prediction actually happens and he finds himself in a dilemma when Duncan becomes king and Lady Macbeth starts brainwashing him and forces him to kill Duncan, plant the daggers and wipe the blood and two guards to try and raise the suspicion off of himself and it did work and nobody knew who it was, or no one would have even suspected that Macbeth would even do such a thing as to kill the most powerful, respected man in the land.

Macbeth’s second flaw is when he was told by the 3 witches that in the future Banquo was going to become king, so Macbeth thought the only way he will become king is if Banquo is dead, and that’s exactly what he did. Macbeth hired assassins to kill Banquo and that was the last time he was seen. Later in the story his guilt gets the better of him and he totally loses his mind, it all happened when Macbeth is having a feast with friends and family and suddenly his eyes lock onto something, that something was Banquo’s ghost coming back to haunt Macbeth because Macbeth was the one who actually had him executed.

Scrooge:
In the beginning of the story A Christmas Carol the character of Ebenezer Scrooge is portrayed as a stingy and tight fisted old man.
A perfect example of this would be on page 4 where it says “Scrooge had a very small fire for himself but his clerk’s fire was so much small that it looked like there was one single coal, that’s goes to show his stinginess.

But as the story goes on his flaws come with it. On page 11 his image as the tight fisted old man turns into the horrible, cold hearted old man, it all starts when he is walking home and he is stopped by a charity worker and is asked could he make a little donation and scrooge returns with “if they would rather die, they better do it quick and decrease the surplus population” ,that goes to show how evil he can be.

But the same with Macbeth, it caught up with him and later in the story he has 3 visits from 3 different ghosts: past, present and future and they make him realise that his attitude and his manner will end up with him dying a very lonely man. In the end of the story he fully ends up cleaning up his act and transforming himself in to a brand new Ebenezer Scrooge for good, so he pays a visit to his nephew and has a meal with him, then he goes into his shop and say’s to his clerk “I’m giving you a pay rise” and as he’s walking down the street he greets everybody with a simple “Hello or Merry Christmas” and the people are shocked because scrooge has never liked Christmas or even attempted to or in fact even think about saying hello. But the last thing he does gives a morel to the story, he sees the charity worker and gives him a donation, and that morel is no matter how bad your personality is, you can still change for the better and there is no limit to how long you take making that change.

CONCLUSION:
The conclusion is the two characters have two different persona’s and totally different flaws. Macbeths flaws where jealousy and mixed emotions which lead him to murder two people: Banquo and Duncan and in the end Macbeths actions caught up to him in the end when Duncan’s son murdered Macbeth in battle and beheaded Macbeth as a trophy as revenge for his father’s murder.As for Scrooge his flaws where his manner, attitude and disbelief, his actions caused him to have a lot of hatred behind him until he was told that his actions were not getting him nowhere and he ended up changing his act and proving to everyone that he is not the same person he used to be.

Brian Woolland worked as a van driver, a helper on a farm, a wine merchant and a photographer; as a teacher in mainstream education and in a therapeutic community for maladjusted adolescents before becoming an Advisory Teacher for Drama. He then took up a post at the University of Reading.

On the BA he taught a wide range of courses, specialising in educational drama, theatre production, Early Modern theatre, and modern American theatre. In 2005 he resigned his post as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Theatre, Television in order to focus on writing and working at his own will, meaning he works for himself and he is his own boss. He is widely published as an author of educational and academic books, where his specialism is theatre of the early modern period. He has also had considerable success as a playwright – with ten plays commissioned and produced by professional companies, and five published in book form.
His most recent play, This Flesh is mine, used The Iliad as a starting point. It previewed in Ramallah, Palestine on 8th May 2014; and opened in Battersea, London, on The 19th May. The play was co-produced by London based Border Crossings and Ashtar Theatre of Ramallah, Palestine. He regularly leads theatre workshops and teaches creative writing, but spends most of his time working as a writer, and theatre director.THIS IS NOT MY OWN WORK. HERE IS THE URL

(http://www.brianwoolland.co.uk/biography.html)
This source helps me understand what he was thinking when writing this play because it tells me his past experience and

WHAT IS GREEK TRAGEDY?
Greek tragedy is a form of theatre from Ancient Greece and Asia Minor. It reached its most significant form in Athens in the 5th century BC. Greek tragedy is an extension of the ancient rites carried out in honor of Dionysus, and it heavily influenced the theatre of Ancient Rome and the Renaissance. Tragic plots were most often based upon myths from the oral traditions of archaic epics. In tragic theatre, however, these narratives were presented by actors. The most important authors of Greek tragedies are Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. THIS IS NOT MY WORK. HERE IS THE URL
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_tragedy)

UNDERSTANDING OF CHARACTER
My character is Achilles, Greek warrior in the Trojan War but he is the strongest warrior. But In my scene Achilles previously gave Patroclus his armour to fight with in the war but his plan backfired and Patroclus ended up being killed and Achilles armour was robbed by hector from the dead body of Patroclus and when Ajax returns with the body of Patroclus accompanied by Phoenix Achilles is upset with himself because his armour didn’t protect Patroclus as hoped and is also angry with Hector for stealing armour that does not belong to him.

CHOICE OF COSTUME:
My choice of costume consisted of Green cargo combat trousers to represent battle because green is a bold and a quite army colour and I thought wearing green cargos will represent combat, a white long sleeved shirt which to represent that I am in a higher status because the others were wearing either a black or some sort of dark coloured shirt and that shows that I am in a higher status than everyone else and to finish with white adidas superstar trainers to match the white long sleeved shirt and the green cargos. The white trainers symbolize a higher status because the other two characters are wearing black shoes. Overall my costume symbolizes that I am stronger than the others and to show that even though I have no armour I am ready to fight.

How successful was the project/performance?
The performance was very successful, everybody was on cue with their lines, and even though we were one man down (Gabriel filled in for Kaine) the performance still went well but the only thing I myself could have done better is look at the camera more and move about a bit more because it will make the audience more interested in the performance because there is more than one thing going on and not just one person standing about.

What areas need further development or re-thinking?
I think my area that needs further development is I need to speak a bit louder because while I was watching my performance I was kind of struggling to hear my lines and that could be a problem if I was doing an actual staged performance because if you cannot hear the performer then you will not understand what is going.

Dear Miss Taylor,

To start, I strongly disagree about how teenagers are portrayed in the article you wrote for The Times. The way you describe teens as unsociable creatures is just false. Not all teenagers are addicted to their phones; if you had a look at the test results of 20 random teenagers I guarantee that at least 6 will have good grades and the rest will have bad, most probably because they were computer gaming rather than, as you claim, being glued to their phone. However, back to the point, it’s not all teens who behave in this way, a huge majority of adults use social media these days as well as us teenagers. You are simply stereotyping.

There was one phrase I didn’t like and it was Jonathan Franzen’s description of us as “enslaved social inadequates”. The word ‘enslaved’ was used, which is saying that social media is taking control of teenagers’ lives and attaching them to their phones as though social media is some sort of a powerful worldwide drug – I think Franzen has not done in-depth research and does not have the correct information to refer to teenagers in this way. He makes it sound like all teenagers are addicted to their phones, however it’s not all teens, it’s only a certain amount that are; I think he gets that impression because he met one girl who texts 150 times a day, and I think he just takes his thoughts too far. After that, he brings up video games and how it will affect teenage social behaviour, his concerns and the rest of it; he then says the trend is turning kids into ‘emoticon-addled zombies’ unable to connect and not even capable of making eye contact.

In the next paragraph you bring back the girl who texts 150 times a day and you describe how all teenagers are the same, constantly texting and spending no time with their family or friends. I myself have been told numerous times to get off of my phone and interact with the people in the house – the last time I immediately thought of your little rant and it kind of helped me to understand your point of view about how some kids are always on their phones. However, the thing that grinds my gears with you is that you act like the games teens play and the amount of texts teens receive/send is going to permanently damage their lives and cause them misery, when in reality it’s not. In fact it’s something that they choose to do and that keeps them in a way happy.

In a recent survey, it says that 25% of teens are ‘almost’ addicted to their phones, and 71% have one or more social media accounts, so that means the remaining 75% are not addicted to their phones and the remaining 29% are not involved with social media at all. Therefore, not all teenagers are addicted to their phones: only 25% are addicted; out of 100% a quarter are constantly on their phones, leaving a massive percentage of 75% – again out of 100, three quarters are not addicted to their phones, so perhaps you should do a bit of research before you speak about all teenagers being enslaved by mobile phones. If 25% of teenagers are addicted to their mobile phones, presumably the other 75% of teens are doing revision and exams.

Teenagers in this day and age are now under more pressure than teenagers in previous generations when it comes to exams because the grade boundaries have been raised higher than ever before, meaning that teenagers have to work at a much higher standard. Not only do teenagers have to work hard, commentators like you are stereotyping them as inadequates when they are simply using an efficient new form of technology to communicate with one another. This technology is nothing to be feared: if anything, it has made communication much faster if you go back and compare it to where it first began, with pigeons and letters. Texting is instant; it empowers teenagers to communicate with each other in a way that they are not constantly being watched over and it allows them to cross the social boundaries which they would not have been able to access many years ago. Maybe the ‘socially enslaved inadequates’ are in fact embodied in you, yourself – an older generation who grew up in a era where they didn’t have the technology we have, where communication on telephones was considered a luxury and was so much more unavailable, making it harder to find friends and meaning a lot of people would be extremely lonely.

Yours sincerely,
Karver

COMPARISONS:
In the poem at the border the narrator is describing her experience from when she was with her family at the border between Kurdistan and Iraq and what happened was her and her family where getting ready to cross the border and her sister saw the thick border chain and she put her legs across it and made a joke and the border guards told her off and the mother got upset. The poem come on come back is about girl who is captured by military troops, drugged and is left in a critical state and her memory is also been erased and in the end she takes her own life to take away the pain and the comparison between the two is a young girls is the centre of the poem, the summary of the comparisons are conflict can effect anyone and it can be so deadly that they have to take there own life in order to get away from the conflict.