Communication 
No Comments Drama Exam
Introduction
The stimulus of the play is it’s set in South London, in the 2000’s exploring the social content of relationships and interactions. My central question is “did I deserve this” I got my central question from a story about a man loosing his two children. Our teacher gave us our stimulus of the story about a man loosing his two children, this then made us what to explore the theme of grief.
My initial idea came from exploring different texts one particular text that stood out to me was about grief. A man loosing his family, at a seaside resort and also loosing his lovely wife, a few years earlier to a disease. The Pros of my initial idea was the fact the text made me feel emotion for the man loosing all his family members. The cons were that me and my peers got better ideas from outside of the box it made me think of the character Ronnie Mitchell, from Eastenders and how she coped with depression of loosing her baby. I watched an episode of the actress Samantha Womack, performing to look at how she uses emotion and tension in her performance. One thing I would of liked to of developed further was making my performance more dark, by exploring the theme of suicide in performance.
Item 2- Duologue
The situation I decided to explore with my peer was a Dad losing his son and his wife. This idea came from reading a story about a father losing his two sons, and how he suffered without them making bad decisions and asking himself loads of questions.
The characters that appeared in the duologue was a Dad called Gary and his son called Jack, both father and son were very close and had a good relationship. Gary taught his son a lot of stuff at a very young age till the son died at the age of five. Gary was a wealthy man who loved his family till he died and started to get weaker every day after their deaths, he use to struggle with going to work because he could always hear his son’s voice in his head saying the sentence “Why did you let me die and what happened to Mum?”.
I developed my character from reading a story about a man, losing his two children and how he survived and got through his pain. I based my character on Ronnie Mitchell, from Eastenders who lost her baby son, and was grieving for him which led to her stealing somebody else’s son because she started to go crazy and have a breakdown.
I played the role of Gary by being a confused man who didn’t know what to do with his life, adding emotion to my voice sometimes being very loud and sometimes speaking in a low pitch. I was standing while performing the duologue looking lost at my son and wife’s grave stones, the movement was slow paced showing that the character Gary was struggling. At one point in the scene Gary start’s to pray because he believes God will help him.
I used improvisation to develop the character by using my own personal experience of grief losing my cousin, to make me feel the emotion of what Gary felt.
My piece was successful because I used my central question, in my piece very well because it left the audience to answer my question. To improve this I would react certain parts in my scene to make it more emotional, to get the audience more thinking about my question.
Item 3 – Design Idea
The intentions behind my design idea was to use the colour black, to represent the darkness and emotion of Gary losing his wife and son. The design was simple to show he had nothing in his life apart from the memories of them. I had two boxes to represent Gary’s wife and son gravestones, showing that’s where he goes to visit and be with them like he’s waiting to die.
The headstones are symbolic because they both have crosses on them representing that Gary believes in God, and that one day he will see and be with his wife and son in a new world living happy.
My Design idea supports my exploration of my central question, “Did I deserve this or not?” because the darkness and emotion can be seen in the design where the character Gary visits the cemetery like the question.