Using Stimuluses to Make a Final Performance
For our drama portfolio we were given many different stimuli to work
with that all gave us different ideas for our final performance. I
choose two stimuli and used them to develop ideas. My first stimulus I
would like to talk about is a sentence about poppies that was given to
us. We took our stimulus and brainstormed ideas. We looked at
different drama strategies to employ that would help us understand the
text. The sentence, which was about poppies made us concentrate on the
aspect of war. Therefore death was the main idea but not necessarily
due to war but to other reasons. Poppies are red and red symbolises
blood, death, danger, wrong and love. As well as the performance
consisting of pain an idea would be to also portray love. So we were
thinking of a performance with a contrast of love and death. Loss will
convey the blood death and danger so we should use loss as a main
element within the piece. However, we were forgetting what poppies
actually are flowers. This obvious aspect should be included, as a
poppy is obviously a flower and death is an obvious element within
war. They are both stating the obvious and therefore some strategies
should be used to gain ideas from this aspect of poppies. We used hot
seating on someone who is a presenter at a garden show. We selected
some sentences about flowers and thought of using narrating to say
them. At the same we created some still images that were related to
the text to investigate the link between the poppies and the idea of
dying in war. We now had a few initial ideas that could be developed
further and used within our final piece.
My second stimulus was to be put in the position of a mother. I was
told that my son had been missing in action and I receive a letter
from him which is back dated two months ago. We took our stimulus and
started to create ideas again. We took into account the time period
and how life would be different then. We concentrated on the parent’s
and son’s relationship and the parent’s priorities. What would be the
most important thing in their life at that moment in time? There were
many aspects to consider so we decided to use hot seating as our first
strategy. We also had to consider the conditions the son was living in
as it was set in the war. It was important for the audience to
understand the atmosphere not only with the setting but within the
During a musical performance many elements to be looked are not easily recognized by the average critic. A musical performance has multiple interactions taking place between the music, text, performers, audience, and space that all can contribute to a great performance. Overwhelming majority of the audience does not realize so much can be looked at during a single performance. At a performance by the University of Maryland Marching Band I was able to analyze the Musical Sound, Contexts of the Performance, and Interpretation of the Performance.
“They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it-seems that only the children weep.” (Lee-285) Ideas have not been engraved in children’s heads which allows them to see the world as a bright, confusing place. I chose Scout as the character for my memory box because she tells “To kill A Mockingbird” with a sweet child’s view. She does not understand why there are prejudices and why some people are treated different than others. School, Atticus, and the courtroom taught Scout many lessons that she will never forget. The memory box itself is Mrs.Dubose’s candy box that she had given to Jem. For readers to see the book in an innocent, childish way during the 1930’s must have changed the way many people felt about how the country treated African Americans. Harper Lee made a very wise decision to tell this amazing story through the eyes of a child.
I sat down and thought about all the benisons raising 24 children had brought upon me.
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I overcame two major barriers as I worked toward my goal, my father’s opinion about appropriate careers for women and my lack of English. I grew up in a village where the nearest doctor was three hours away. When I was eight years old, I was surprised by my aunt’s pregnancy and intrigued to learn more about pregnancy and fetal development.
Sitting down was just about unbearable; wall to wall pregnant women, as far as the eye could see. "Was this what the doctor was going to tell me, that he made a mistake while doing my partial hysterectomy and now I was pregnant? No; that couldn't be it! It's been a year since I had surgery. So, what was so important that he couldn't tell over the phone? May be the endometriosis came back; yes, that was it, it had to be. Why wasn't my name being called?" It had been 20 minutes since I signed in. Waiting when uncertainty was on one side of the door and clear was on the other, waiting was the hardest thing to do.
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