In what ways was the stimulus material developed through the drama process?

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In what ways was the stimulus material developed through the drama process?               

Our stimulus derived from a newspaper article brought in by a member of my peer group, the article was in relation to a young girl ‘Ainlee Walker’ being abused by both her parents ‘Leanne Labonte’ and ‘Dennis Henry’. Due to the unremitting abuse the child died at the young age of six. The editorial was deplorable and touched us all deeply leading to us using it as a supporting stimulus. We engaged out thoughts on this article and brainstormed ways in which we could portray this through drama. We began with the idea of an estate agent showing a couple through the house in which the abuse took place, and each room the agent took the couple into, for example the bedroom, we would see the abuse that took place in that room re-occurring. We also thought of using the nursery rhyme “Hush little baby don’t say a word” as a mode to convey the repulsion of the whole situation. We tried this suggestion out but found it extremely hard to perform due to the structure of the house being indistinguishable and we also found it hard to convey what part of the house we were in, due to the difficulty in portraying this idea to the audience we moved on to look at other prospects for our piece.

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In the midst of further research on the Internet, we came across various true-life anecdotes from the official child abuse website . The stories enraptured various ‘child maltreatment’, which is the general term used to describe all forms of child abuse and neglect. Child maltreatment encompasses physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and emotional abuse. We were particularly moved by an account of a child namely “Joey” who had been raped on Christmas day by his stepfather in the bathroom of his house after telling the boy he had a ‘special’ Christmas present waiting for him. This stories outrageous plot and ...

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