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I feel the different elements in the performance helped the audience understand Brechtian theatre clearly. The cards with A B C D and office worker single mum and old person this is a classic act of bretchian theatre.

Because the cards show the audience that the we are actors and we are acting out to be these people. This kind of brings the audience to a thinking state of mind that is actually happened and makes them think about these issues in the world and how it maybe in a long run effects them or their children, our piece had all different elements of physical theatre.

I feel that all the performance was good and true brethican theatre, I feel that Sarah N class was good but I feel that it was more of a joke and very close to a musical although they used the disconnect us the audience from the show I didn’t see clearly what their message to us was? It felt like I was watching a funny musical about a supermarket where you can buy babies with a bitchy selfish boss and “slutish”checkout girls and where the prices went up for stupid reasons. I think maybe I missed the message; wills group was interesting it was two ensemble groups one was the parents and the others was the groups it was interesting to see because they moved as one so it just looked as a child and parent talking maybe in a living room or something but obviously it wasn’t.

I feel our piece out the 3 was the most bretchiran and the most interesting it had elements of music but it wasn’t overtaking the message, we had the ensemble scenes to show political times through the ages and we also had scenes from Blondie, I feel that our show had a strong message and I think people got it they understood, it wasn’t to much and it wasn’t to less.

I feel that the audiences was very different the first audience was our peers they knew us they already so they found everything quite funny when parris group did the bin laden scene they found it comical but serious at the same time whereas the parents looked at it from a different perspective. For me an audience never really phases me as an performer obviously its nice to get the reaction you want from the audience but I do think actors should learn not to feed off the audience. My in terms of my performance I feel I couldn’t and didn’t connect with my role because it was either narrator 3 for A, but studying brecthian theatre you need to be disconnected in order to get the message across to the audience. I think that all theatre is political because each piece of theatre that is made has a duty to create and evoke feeling from the audience weather its children or adults or teenagers etc..

Overall I have enjoyed working on bretchian theatre I always feel that I need to connect with the character or I need to find that person inside me in order to pull off an good decent performance but doing brectian theatre it has made me think differently and that in its self is political.

Rehearsals and questions 4th

 

·         What do you hope the audience go away asking themselves, and/or discussing with others?

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·         we use  brecthtian style of theatre and this so clear because we disconnects you with the character and makes you think and ask questions about the actual issue which is exactly what this type of theatre is about, and what Brecht wanted to represent in his work. I feel The audience will go home feeling effected about the performance we gave, it will make them think about who they are as a person and their beliefs and what they can do to make society “a better place”.

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·         How have we ensured we have embedded the work of Brecht in our performance?

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·         I feel we have definitely embedded to act of brecthtian type of theatre, nobody has a name no actor  is a character for too long and the audience is forced not to be connected with the performance which has brecths name written all over it. We all quickly understood political theatre and  about brecths type of work so when making the ensemble group short scenes straight away they was powerful and deep and clear.

 

poltical protest

We looked at the stereo typical views on how people looked at a gay, straight, light skinned person and a young girl with a baby (which was the part I played). our approach to each of these subjects was to do a monologue and express how that person might feel, my particular monologue stressed the fact the young girl was raped and now has a baby and how society looks upon her, she felt upset, angry, and lost faith in herself she explained on how general people might look at her as a “whore,slut,tramp, unmotivated person who want to live on benefits” but when looking deeper into the issue she was raped and was forced to take the decision on having the child, she explained how people look at her in a certain way because she was young and how she felt covered with judgment. Gavin expressed a boy who put on an act that he was this hard “gangster” but then when actually speaking to him he was gay but felt like he had to cover up and because he would simply be judged. Parris showed how a person could on the outside look gay and flamboyant and like musicals etc., But was just normal and straight he expressed how your sexuality doesn’t always determine your personality and Nicki did a monologue about the stereo types on a light skinned coloured girl and the effects it has on all girls with the same coloured skinned.I think our protest was short and sweet , we put our point across with strong powerful speeches and the audience got and understood the message easily, I realised doing any kind of performance may that be a political protest or a site specific piece of work you always got to think about the environment you’re in because if you’re in the cold ion the rain and your trying to protest people will be more reluctant to come and watch your performance over a performance inside in the warmth, that would be something we should take into consideration.