Development: We were asked to create a play from a scene in The caucasian chalk circle by Bertolt Brecht.

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We were asked to create a play from a scene in The caucasian chalk circle by Bertolt Brecht. The scene we choose was the scene of when Grusha and The dying man are getting married. The way we done this play was to make sure we had the rough outline of the story and use it to create are own play that had to be adapted  we used loads of Brechtian techniques like Gestus, Choral speaking, alienation, montages and levels.

The Group we got into was a group of four and they were Marlon, Josh, Colin, and Me.The scene we were asked to do was intresting because you could add loads of things that you could use to make it your own and adapt it for when you actually perform the play. We all got together and came up with ideas that we could use in the performance and they were to make sure we had all agreed on what we was going to do and so that no one could moan about what we was going to act. We came up with loads of ideas each of us and so that we decided to put them together and act them all out but as we got into the rehearsing we saw that some of the ideas didnt work so we forgot them and  came up with new ideas that would go well with the performance. We were given five hours to get ready for our final performance this seemed like pleanty of time and we would finish it easily by the time it had to be performed but actually we didnt have any spare time at all and we never really had enough time to perfect it as a lot of ideas were time consuming.

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We had costumes and props we were allowed to use aswell and our group used a chair, a bag (for the baby), face paints that marlon used, a  skirt that marlon used, placards so that we could name each of the scenes.

We split our play into  scenes they were Intoduction and opening scene, wedding arrangements, the monk, the wedding and the dying mans funeral??????.

In the opening scene we were situated in a straight line and introduced each of the characters  it first started with colin as grushas brother and he bowed and we all clapped, then marlon as ...

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