Producing Your Own Play

Producing Your Own Play

Recently, two friends and I structured a piece of theatre involving

three characters and their journey through life. Throughout the play

themes such, alcohol abuse, child abuse, drug addiction and many other

themes showing the mental ability as the characters come across hard

dissions during their journey through life. The play is about three

characters who are faced with many temptations in which all resulting

in some sort of addiction and later resulting in the character ending

up in a mental hospital.

The play is fast moving and perceptive entertains and thought

provoking, funny yet ultimately tragic. Throughout the planning of our

production we came across a few difficult disicions, one that really

stands out in my mind was how to show the audience a sub-consion veiw

of the characters thoughts, we wanted to really show the depth of

these characters giving the veiwer the ability to understand the

characters choices. To enable this we decided to use fiction in

certain scenes showing an angel and a devil both giving adive to each

indivdual character. We wanted to give the play a theme of 'Black

Comedy' this keeping the audience more intreaged.

My partners and I decided we could create our own characters, I

decided that when my character first enters the play aged 9 years old

I wanted to play this child to the best of my ability, I found this

difficult at first for I had never played a character who was

suffering with child abuse. After thinking about how I would play my

character I decided that to give the veiwer a deep insite of my

characters thoughts to acomplish this I tried to come across as a very

insicure child, growing up with no love or affection in his life, this

suggesting I would keep my voice in a quiet pitch and also while my

character grows older and discovers he is a free person he still is

traped with his father torment constant in his mind, this resulting in

him turning into a more visiuos man with a very controversal veiw upon

women this veiw growing into an addiction, growing to the ecstent wher

the only pleasure was when he would kill women; '' GRABBING EVERY

WOMEN IN SIGHT INTO DARK ALLYS LATE AT NIGHT'', in certain scenes we

used ryme to give a stronger affect.Later on in the play my character

finds himself in a mental hospital, my characters mind was no loger

stable and useing very simular insicure body language like when I was

a child I tried to give an affet where I was trabbed in my childhood