Account of a Theatre Workshop
Before we did the actual workshops in class we read “The Visit”
because the workshops that were to follow would be based on and around
the play. To remind us all what the theme of the play was and what
it’s actually about we started our first workshop by going around the
group with everyone saying what they thought the play was about. This
exercise I found very helpful because when reading the play in class I
didn’t pick up on some of the main aspects of the play and was
therefore at a loss, but due to this exercise I now knew everything
that was going on in “The Visit” and could work and interact far
easier.
In this workshop we then were asked to pick a prominent member of the
town in “The Visit” for example the policeman, doctor or pastor. We
were then instructed to walk around the room in character, whilst
walking up to others and asking indirect questions to one another to
try and find out which town member they had chosen. We were then told
to group together into groups of the same town members.
This in fact turned out very nicely as it ended up having three
groups: (1) Cameron, Katie and Richard.W who were pastors or priests.
(2) Lydia, Tayah, Olivia and Richard.S who were all policemen. And
finally (3) Tom, Rupert, Yomna and I were doctors. We were all told by
Mr. Watson that he is running an investigation to find out why each
group thinks they need the money and why they need it more than
everyone else does. We were also asked about Schill and what we
thought we should do with him.
After a long arduous discussion, we were all told to elect a
spokesperson that had to address chill a...
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...ew what to do, however, we still had no Schill. Cameron was
elected by the group to be our new Schill, and in a small space of
time he had to learn everything we’d decided Richard.S would
originally do.
Even though the factor of two of our actors being missing, I thought
we coped extremely well. The fact that we used a T.V. reporter
(Rupert) added to the grotesques of the play by making it even more
chilling as it was for everyone else’s amusement,
The hypocrisy in “The Visit” and the fact that people can lose their
morale scarily easily we showed extensively throughout our final
workshop as well as our previous ones.
This was the end of our workshops and I felt that they were extremely
helpful as an actor as well as helping to understand the play, and I
think that throughout the group everyone did very well.
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the main theme of the play. With out this scene in the play I don’t
project of the play, of which is touched upon in Act One. It is this
At the start of the play, in Act 1 Scene 1, there is a theme of
the play, so we can see the way they change when they meet for the
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of the audience. One of his main aims in the play was to present the
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The theme of the play is also change. At the end of the play when
...the betrayal and dishonesty that is omnipresent in the play. Not only do they simply embody this concept, but they also serve to conclude the events of the play, by being the ending to what started the beginning.
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