Portfolio Essays
We were initially given two texts to progress from. The first, a photograph of a female Jewish refugee in 1938 arriving in Britain. There were no captions or headings, just the photo itself. At the outset, we were very interested in what we were expected to do as the text was very stimulating. We then…
Cam McBride History Reflect on your understanding of the concept of ‘history’. Has this changed in the first three weeks of the course? If so, how? If not, how did you come to your present understanding of how history works? Discuss at least two of the following: ‘cultural change’; the ‘Great Men’ theory of history;…
In workshop one there was two forms of drama; straight improvisation and teacher in-role. This was structured by having the class in a semi circle and the teacher walking in straight in-role as the manager of the youth hostel. The teacher said in-role that we were ‘experienced therapists’ this automatically made clear on the role…
Our year eleven drama coursework classes have been studying a play written by Willy Russell called Blood brothers. Throughout studying blood brothers in our workshop, I have been able to dig beneath the surface of the issues and relate with the characters thoughts and feelings. I have also been able to interpret the text by…
Pieces of work, including a song ‘Hotel California’, a section of a play ‘king Leah’ and also a picture of two people at the fair ground. We had to devise a play around these three pieces of work. During my play I have tried to incorporate several different dramatic elements we have learnt through this…
As a class we read the poem ‘The Devil’s Wife’ by Carol Ann Duffy which is about the case of five murders committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the victims were buried across the Yorkshire moors hence the case being named ‘The Moors Murders’. The poem ‘The Devil’s Wife’ is Carol Ann Duffy’s interpretation…
In scene 1 it is set at the dining table and we have a house guest and everyone is very well spoken and very polite. But the children were so good, they even showed the house guest around the house, while I spoke with my husband he told me he lost his job and I…
For this section of the exam we have been studying and exploring the play “Blood Brothers” by Willy Russel. We have used many explorative strategies to help us interrupt the text and show us the themes and issues of the play. I enjoyed most of the exercises we did, but found many of them challenging….
In these pages, nine of America’s busiest designers exhibit some of their recent work and describe the artistic impulse behind it. “Designers have proved not only among the most creative figures in the theatre,” Robert Brustein has observed, “but also among the most intelligent and broad-ranging.” This astonishing collection of images, selected by the designers…
