4th
December 2012
In today’s lesson we put all of the pieces of our
performance together, the songs, the Blondie scenes and the people in power
scenes, so that we could rehearse them all together and refine the performance.
This was really essential for us as next week we are performing our theatre
pieces to an audience, so as we have had limited time, it was really important
that we worked hard and got our piece together.
The other part of the performance that I need to work on by
myself is my speech as Blondie, when she gets elected in as Prime Minister. I
think that I need to characterise the speech and Blondie a lot more, as right
now I am just saying the speech in a typical politician way, where as with
Blondie I need to make it a lot sexual and to make her more sensual so that it
is clear to the audience why she is so appealing and why people are voted for
her. I need to look a the speech and to work out more of a distinctive, sensual
voice for Blondie to make the speech more representative of beauty and power
coming together, more interesting and entertaining for the audience to watch.
What do we want the
audience to take away from our performance?
At the end of the lesson we started to think about the
message of our piece and what we want the audience to take away from it.
Personally I think that our piece of theatre has more than one message to it
and according to different parts of the play it says different things to the
audience.
Later on in our performance I think another message that we
are sending our audience is one of what power does to people and is it right
that they worst people get remembered? This is shown in our people in power
scenes, such as the Bin Laden one or the Bush one. These scenes are
demonstrating how horrible crimes against humanity have to be to get public acknowledgement
and that those people, like Hitler, are so well known for something so horrific
and even more well known than people that have done really good things in their
life, and we are asking them if that is right?
Finally I think the last part of our piece of theatre sends
out another message and personally I think this is the most important message
of the performance. At the end of our piece Blondie revels that the reason for
her mass murder was to make “England
get a grip” to show the people of Britain how good they have their
own life and to be grateful for what we have and for the people we love. It
also puts our first world problems into perspective and to stop complaining and
to realise how lucky we are. However it also makes the audience think about how
much it takes to makes them be thankful of what they have and that it takes
something as horrible as a genocide for England to realise what a good country
we have because we can be with the people we love in safety.