Theatre In Education Performance Analysis

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Due to our piece being the style of a theatre in education performance, we decided that we should all multirole to remind the audience that what they are watching is fictional. We also thought that by multi-rolling everybody would get an equal speaking part in the performance. The main character of this piece is a teenage boy named Zac Wainright. We decided to follow the styles of a theatre in education piece by using a stereotype of the kind of person who would take drugs and decided that a teenage boy bets fit this stereotype. Zac is going to show the audience how easily a person can be pressured into taking drugs by peers and how it can be avoided. Through this character we will also be showing the audience the dangers of drugs and what can happen if they are taken. We thought that it would be best to portray Zac as a …show more content…
We wanted to avoid using blackouts as often as possible as it may make the performance seem broken up. During “the peer pressure scene” we decided to use shadows to be Zacs friends. This will show how Zac feels as though he is being overpowered by his friends and will visually show the audience how he feels. We will do this by bringing a cloth across the centre of the stage with the people playing the friends behind it and zac infront of it, we will then turn on a light behind the cloth to create a shadow. When Zac is deciding whether or not to take drugs we will have two people playing Zac, while “good Zac” is speaking they will have a single spotlight shone down onto them and vice versa whilst “bad Zac” is speaking. During this scene we will also have one of the people in our group, Tom, playing a song on the piano while images relating to this song are projected onto a screen on the stage. We will also use songs played through speakers to show that different scenes are in different places, so we dont have to move much on