Assessment 1

1) The creative strategies that were used within Wednesdays session varied depending on what each group was doing, be it the group piece or the conclusion of the characters relationships with other people within the space. The focus of these culminated within the resolution of our characters individual stories. The stimulus for this was “What would happen to your characters at the end of the piece?” With this in mind we had to come up with a resolution that suited all the characteristics of the performers individual parts. With this in mind we had a play/improvisation session in which we came up with a way of making the characters naturally conclude their relationships by the end of the performance. The technique of devising through improvisation worked well as our natural instincts came out and the characters motivation and ending came out naturally, without seeming forced or unnatural to the characters personalities.


2) After the individual groups progressed with their ending then we had to find a way that our characters would react to the current communal style ritual that occurred within the penultimate section. My character had been shunned by the only females that he had any contact with and at the end he was left alone to think about his previous actions and how his chauvinism has turned him into an outcast, like what he made of Lauren. After this the character is not only more insecure but more lonely than usual as he had no option to make himself stay as an outcast within that society, even though he conforms to the ritual he will never find anyone or be happy. With this in mind other people’s resolutions were cemented within this final community section and a lot of peoples resolutions were generally happy and joyous and this was a complete contrast to what was about to happen with Glenford and Frankie’s final duet.


3) I think that now a lot of people have found out what happens to their characters, then they will have to make sure that the earlier scenes will also have to be able to show their characters progressions a lot stronger than what is already there, as the journey for each individual character will then have their ending and to show the journey they will need to improve the earlier stages in order to achieve a desired effect for their own personal ending what ever it may be.