Devising Theatre - Sharon Mckevitt

16/09/14

We started the lesson having a group discussion on what we thought was a good theatre piece,
my opinion on this was having a storyline that is unique nothing is expected the structure and plot is different.
we then put ourselves into groups of four my group being Mario, Emma and Sharnae and got given the word peer pressure as a stimulus to do a short scene on, we decided to make our scene like a trailer of a movie. we discussed our own experiences with peer pressure and linked this into our scenes.
We chose, peer pressure to loose your virginity, peer pressure to drink and take drugs and peer pressure with gangs.

We started it off with a freeze frame image of mario standing in the centre, with Emma Sharnae and I making a gesture of pushing mario from each angle, with mario having a distressed look on his face we then all walked into a straight line swiftly, and advertising 'peer pressure' in a comical voice really trying to advertise it as if its a trailer. myself emma and sharnae then sat and two of them were talking about their sex life whilst i was on the edge outkasted from the conversation then to be brought in by them saying for me to do it, making it obvious to the audience that i didn't fit in because i was not a virgin. Mario being the narator of the piece then turned it comical by saying "ARE YOU LIKE JADE? DO YOU NEED ADVICE ON HOW TO SHUN YOUR FRIENDS AWAY? THEN COME DOWN TO THE CINEMA NOW AND WATCH PEER PRESSURE 101 TODAAAAAY".
The second scene consisted of myself Emman and sharnae dancing around the space whilst mario stood still, and sharnae telling emma to loosen up abit as she was acting very quiet in the club I then spiked emma's drink with drugs making her dance crazily. Mario then said a similar line as before making it commical and trailer like whilst me and sharnae froze and emma still continuing to dance showing the contrast that emma could not stop.
the last scene involved Mario being peer pressured by me and Emma into shooting his friend (sharnae) then mario repeating the same lines making it commical again "ARE YOU BEING PEER PRESSURED INTO SHOOTING YOUR FRIENDS? THEN WATCH PEER PRESSURE 101 TODAAAAAAAY"

I really enjoyed creating this short piece of thearte as i thought it was different to most other peoples structures, we got great feedback however our constructive feedback was that it may have been enjoyed too much and missed the meaningful message behind it.
we could improve this by trying to lower the comical side of the dialogue and maybe creating more tension in the scenes.