Month: June 2016

Item 1: Our rehearsed improvisation was different to our actual performance. When we was rehearsing we was trying out many different types of scenes. For example to scene where Zaks character was buying the phone of Henry who was a undercover cop. But Zak wasn’t sure but he wasn’t taking any chances because his family was struggling with money and they need money for things like food and clothes.

item 2: In our performance situation that we decided to explore with the script was that we was we were trying to show that Syrians struggle so much in their country and how hard it is to survive in a way how they were living. Because they was living how they was, this caused them to think that they would risk everything to get out of there that is why in our performance we tried to show that kind of lead up to having to leave your own home and how it feels to have to leave all the memory’s your had at there house. Leaving would also cause them to have to leave all off there belongs behind. There was also another scene that was was going to do we was going to do a scene where Zak(the father) was selling a phone for money so he will be able to feed his child (Alim). There was only one extra character that was decided to add to our performance and that was when we on the boat and Henry played the sick man at the front of the boat. There was suppose to be a few extra characters but we had to cut them out because we didnt have enough people in our group for it to happen. The character that i was playing was a kid called Alim and it showed what he had to go through in his life. There was a powerful scene that we done where Alim stepped up onto a box in the middle of a war just after his mum ad been shot and died. He said ” I remember, i remember it all , when the bombs where falling, when families didn’t know whether they were going to survive the night, i remember the way how my parents would smile just to make me feel safe.” In Our play we used repetition to show how his life was affected by all the bad things that has happened to him.

Costumes: In our performance we wanted my character to wear a T-shirt because it would represent they way in what people say about you sticks with you sometimes for life so having this T-shirt in view for the audience to show them the impact that a few words can stay with someone for the rest of there life. For example on one of the T-shirts one of the quotes says “Dirty immigrants” this of course is a very rude thing to say to someone especially if that person has came to the country to start a better life and live in a safe environment but when people that have no idea where these immigrants have come from or what has happened to them in the past or in there old country. This is also one of the most important reasons why we decided to do the scene with the T-shirts. We also had another T-shirt which was underneath the one with all the bad things that happened to him in his past life. We decided to write on the T-shirt “home” on it so when it comes towards the ed of the performance the first shirt had about two rips in the so when we ripped the first shirt everyone would be able to see the shirt that had home on it. This represents that the boy has let go of all of them feelings and all of those horrible things that people called him when he came to this new country. This also shows a powerful statement shown by the boy that immigrants are safe anywhere because they are either being shot at or have never truly been accepted so they are being abused.

Scene 1, Son dad and random guy on the boat:

Son: Dad, where are we going?

Dad: don’t worry we will be there soon.

Son: But, where are we going ?

Dad: listen son , where we are going will be a safe place. When we get there we will be able to live a normal life. (starting to get a little angry.)

Son: We all my toys be there?

Dad: Yes son, if you want.

Son: Will mummy there?

Dad: no, mummy’s in a better place.

Son: Why i want mum to be there!

Dad: MUMMY IS NOT GOING TO BE THERE (he said sadly)

(10 seconds pause)

Son: Dad, are you ok?

Dad: I’m sorry i shouted. I’m just a bit frustrated.

The Author of the poem “Eden rock” Charles Causley speaks about a mother and a father who are still quite young but as one reads through the poem one can realise that the author chooses to portray this from the child’s perspective. The protagonists’ father occurs as young man and who is said to be “of genuine Irish tweed” as well, is portrayed as a unchanging and confident man who’s dog never leaves his sight “still two years old and trembling at his feet”.

his mother, who is 23 years old who sounds really nice and also sounds like a very picky and prestige women. he says “my mother, 23 in a sprigged dress drawn at her waist, ribbon in her straw hat, has spread the stiff white cloth over the grass. her hair, the colour of wheat takes on the light.”

Another way in which Thomas Hardy has presented love as a curse would be by mentioning ‘love deceives’. This quotation also makes a link to a negative type theme through the word ‘deceive’. This word explains how their relationship was full of lies and how they were untrustworthy as they may have been doing things behind each others backs.

This is a use of a metaphor because of how love cannot physically deceive but instead Thomas Hardy has compared it to their relationship in order to inform the reader of what type of relationship these two people share in the poem. The love can also be seen as curse as deceitfulness consists of lies and trickery and that can also be seen in curses.

Thomas Hardy says ‘tedious riddles of years ago’. The fact that Thomas Hardy has mentioned riddles explains how their love may have been similar as they find it hard to understand and crack each other which is also the same scenario in a riddle. Also, he mentions it as a memory as it is something that has happened in the past and can be looked back upon as a bad memory. This is a curse as it shows how the whole love was not real and could be seen as a trap for him to be hurt.