Our drama performance was based on the dangers of peer pressure and drugs.

relate to Megan a girl who consequently after becoming involved with drugs and the people involved with them, lost her boyfriend first after he finishes with her then when he dies. In the first scene I sat alone on my bed crying into a teddy as the lights came up, and the music. The music we chose for the last scene and the first was incubus I miss you and incubus I’m sorry the words in both were used to re-enforce the pain of losing the one person Megan really cared about. The next scene was to introduce the audience to all the characters; Megan and Steve met up at the bus stop and then Damien who arrived a bit later in his car (we used car sounds rather then a real car!) with Tara and Steph turned up. This set the characters and showed the audience how each character acted round each other, after this Steve and Megan left and Damien told his side of the story of why he and Steve did not get on. The next scene was Steve and Megan on Megan’s bed together this is the first scene where you see Megan changing slightly, she was angry with Steve for dragging her away from the others, this scene also show Steve being a good musician as he starts to sing a song to Megan who ignores him. In this scene Steve tells his version of why he and Damien don’t get on. This changes Megan’s mind and the hug that follows re-enforces the fact that the two are very much in love. Megan consequently decides to have nothing to do with the others. The next scene is at school, the costumes in this scene again show the difference in characters, Megan in dressed in proper school uniform with a sensible bag, Tara and Steph are dressed the total opposite. The next scene was Megan meeting the others and being offered drugs Steve witnesses this and finishes with Megan, this really upsets her so she turns to the only thing she can and calls Damien up. The hit and run scene was very difficult to perform as we had no way of actually running Steve over so instead we used flashing lights and the car sounds again and screaming from Tara, Steph, Megan and Steve. Everything went really well in the last and final performance apart from the guitar falling over! This was a bad thing to happen and I could have handled it better be just ignoring it but I did carry on after the initial shock (I thought I’d broken it), and I think the overall effect of the play was very good, and I feel proud of our group and myself for our achievements. Sarah Maile 11BI