Caged Birds

The first scene shows the inmates in their comfortable cell.  One inmate had a laptop, another was sat on a comfortable sofa with a duvet, another on a swing and another cooking.  Each inmate was doing their own thing.  In this scene, I thought the woman with the mobile phone was well played because she looked like she was talking to someone on the phone, but actually wasn’t, but still now and again she showed that she was talking to herself and gave an impression of insanity.  She said her lines very clearly and moved around the stage very well.  

I thought the main character (the wild woman) was very well played because she sounded like she was really trying to persuade the other characters in the cell, which they were very comfortable in, to break out with her and gain their freedom.  She looked very passionate about her cause.  Throughout the play, however, she seems to be unable to persuade them, until she finally gets through to one woman who almost changes her point of view which gives the audience hope that the woman will succeed in getting them free.

The climax of the play was shocking because they turned on her and killed her, and then killed the woman who had been persuaded and had then tried to persuade the others.  

The actor playing the ‘wild woman’ gives the impression of being wild by the way she moves around the stage.  She runs around, she slams the door and pulls at the other people in the cell.  Her voice is excellent because she projects it well.