Analysis Of A Political Interpretation Of The Three Little Pigs

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Throughout our performance, we used the technique ‘body as prop’ successfully to convey the structure of two of the three little pig’s houses. There was a contrast in the two houses due to the differentiated shape and tension. To convey the building of the house, synchronised movement was used to show the shape develop. To show that I was acting as my character my face was in neutral; this showed the audience the diversity between my character and the usage of body prop.

I also feel that we developed the piece affectively around the stimulus of a “political interpretation of ‘the Three Little Pigs’ “. We decided to centre the piece around discrimination, and how those who are different are bullied by society. We used the audience as part

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