Drama Coursework - Role Play

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Rebecca Henry

GCSE Drama Coursework                                                          Rebecca Henry

Development Phase - Role Play

Each member of the class was given a character profile and a scenario. It was a part of a murder mystery activity. All characters had a motive for murder and were out of the room at the time the murder took place. Four students were given characters of detectives. The detectives were researching all characters using the profiles and were thinking of a series of intimidating questions to ask the suspects. The remainder of us were deciding within our groups who we thought was guilty and trying to piece together our cover stories.

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The performance was improvised role-play. We were aware of the characters we were playing and the situation that we was in, but we would have to perform in front of an live audience without any rehearsal time.

Our scene resembled a police line-up situation. Me and another character were actually the joint murderers. My cover was that I was with the other murderer at the time of the killing, and we had hardly spoken to the victim all night. The task was actually harder than we thought as we had to think on the spot and ...

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