Final piece GCSE drama evaluation
Final Piece Assessment- Development
The Circus
The object of the first task set was to create a performance in response to the stimulus given. The stimulus we received was a short passage from a story describing a circus, the description allowed us to freely explore our different interpretations because it was a broad and different approach to the typically happy and childlike setting of a circus. As a whole the class responded with quite abstract and solemn pieces, I feel the physical theatre reflected the tone of the stimulus well, all of the responses tended to lean towards drawing fear from the audience, for example instead of limiting the use of space to a typical theatre styled front on stage setting the use of proxemics broadened when groups branched out and included the audiences space during their performance, this gave the piece a threatening edge and popped the comfortable bubble that the audience would’ve usually been used to and expected.
This first exercise then lead us, as a group, to discuss the techniques we thought worked well in drawing emotion from the audience and how we would incorporate those feelings into our piece while using physical theatre. After our primary discussions we began to produce our own original pieces while still drawing inspiration from the same circus stimulus and basing our performance in the same ‘creepy’ genre. The first hurdle we faced was using our bodies to create believable and imaginative objects within the scene, we kept finding ourselves standing scattered over the stage holding basic poses which left the scenes falling flat and feeling inconsistent, to resolve this we began focusing all of our ideas into one to create one larger object with all of our bodies, an example of this was the cage in which an animal lived in, we used height and proxemics to create an enclosure that left the audience feeling separated from what was happening, we wanted them to view it from the outside looking in, as if they
The Circus
The object of the first task set was to create a performance in response to the stimulus given. The stimulus we received was a short passage from a story describing a circus, the description allowed us to freely explore our different interpretations because it was a broad and different approach to the typically happy and childlike setting of a circus. As a whole the class responded with quite abstract and solemn pieces, I feel the physical theatre reflected the tone of the stimulus well, all of the responses tended to lean towards drawing fear from the audience, for example instead of limiting the use of space to a typical theatre styled front on stage setting the use of proxemics broadened when groups branched out and included the audiences space during their performance, this gave the piece a threatening edge and popped the comfortable bubble that the audience would’ve usually been used to and expected.
This first exercise then lead us, as a group, to discuss the techniques we thought worked well in drawing emotion from the audience and how we would incorporate those feelings into our piece while using physical theatre. After our primary discussions we began to produce our own original pieces while still drawing inspiration from the same circus stimulus and basing our performance in the same ‘creepy’ genre. The first hurdle we faced was using our bodies to create believable and imaginative objects within the scene, we kept finding ourselves standing scattered over the stage holding basic poses which left the scenes falling flat and feeling inconsistent, to resolve this we began focusing all of our ideas into one to create one larger object with all of our bodies, an example of this was the cage in which an animal lived in, we used height and proxemics to create an enclosure that left the audience feeling separated from what was happening, we wanted them to view it from the outside looking in, as if they