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How miller wrote this speech depicts how men saw women in that time. It says to me that it is a woman’s duty to serve her husband. He wants to break her by threatening that she is forbidden to see her husband. This attitude towards women was not just apparent in Salem in 1642 but…

In my drama piece I have been creating during lesson times, I have played several characters to experiment with different ideas for the play. The characters I have played have ranged in personality and how they act; for example, the vicar I portray in the first scene is completely different to how I act as…

We used a ball of string as a prop to create the ‘web’. When we created the web we tried to show what it was like being kept in an environment against your will not being able to escape. Prior to the exercise we discussed the idea of being held hostage and the emotions that…

Our group started working on ‘Table Manners’, one of a trio of plays in ‘The Norman Conquests’, written by Alan Ayckbourn. We used the following explorative strategies; Role-Play, Hot-Seating, Thought-Tracking and Still Image, to further enhance our understanding and appreciation of the characters in the play. Still Image: For this explorative strategy, we were split…

My sister and me had just saved enough money to go on holiday to Bournemouth, after going off drugs 4: We were so looking forward to it. I had packed all my stuff! We were going to stay in 4 star accommodations with a beautiful view of the ocean. We were going to ride donkeys and maybe…

For the response phase we worked on three sections of the play to discover and understand the family relationships in particular the development and changes of Geoff and Billy’s complex relationship. We looked at firstly at the opening scene, then at act two and finally act three, the end of the play. In the response…

In drama, we have recently been looking at a contemporary piece of youth theatre, Sparkleshark, by Philip Ridley. Sparkleshark is set on the junk-strewn roof of an inner-city tower block. This is the secret hideaway of Jake (14), where he goes to work on his stories. He’s interrupted by Polly (14), who’s more impressed by…

The Toys Talk of the World – Frozen Statues. The technique of Frozen Statues is when the body take the shape of an object. For example, I was told to take the shape of a vase, I would adapt my posture to maybe be as big or as small as possible, and then put put arms…

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…

Tom Owen was sat in his bedroom mulling over what he had just witnessed. Surly it was a dream. But what if it wasn’t? Who was he going to tell? How could someone do such an awful thing? Tom’s face was pale. His body was shaking so hard he could not breathe. High Court London “Court rise”,…