Hannah and Hanna – Live Performance Review.

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Hannah and Hanna – Live Performance Review

By Alex RL

As part of our Drama GCSE coursework, we went to see a live performance and were asked to review it. We saw Hannah and Hanna, a piece about the status and treatment of asylum seekers in the UK.

The characters were Hannah, a white, working class girl living in Margate, a city the sea. She has stereotypical views, and has probably never left the city she lives in. The other is Hanna, a girl from Eastern Europe seeking refuge in the same city as Hannah. When they first meet, Hannah’s views on Hanna are prejudiced, but over time they grow together and in the end, fittingly, they become best friends. In-between the middle and the end is about an hour and a half of clichéd, boring and predictable scenes telling their “heartwarming” story.

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The play was quite stylised, in that there were only basic props, and two characters throughout the whole play, as well as a few scenes comprising of the two actors singing to pop tunes. However, the lack of diversity did little to keep the audience entertained, and at numerous points throughout the play, I felt the audience getting disgruntled at the seemingly endless production. The actors themselves were not terrible, but the most enjoyable parts of the play were Hanna’s comical eastern European accent, and the singing scenes.

        There were little visual effects to speak of, but there ...

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