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War coursework – Evaluation

In our war play we tell the story of how two families go to war over something small that soon becomes something big. In our play we had two families and the war began over one family owing another family money. We devised a play that showed in war there are no winners only losers.

In our play we had two families one called the Capone family and one called the Makevele family. The Capone family owed the Makevele family a lot of money and they were both rich families but the Capone family refused to pay the money. The father of the Capone’s called ‘papa’ refused to pay the money he owed Mr Makevele, he owed Mr Makevele an amount of 1 million dollars and he owed him this money for over 30 years. He owed him the money because Mr Makevele had given him this money to start his business and when his business took off he became greedy and decided not to pay his dept. This sparked off a war between the two men and soon they had families and their sons became involved in the war as well. In the end both families ended up dead and the moral of the story was in war people have to die and there are no winners. Others groups had a similar devised drama to us, their plays were all about war, and another group also did families at war. There performance was different because they did a Romeo and Juliet type of story where a boy loved a girl form another family problem was there families hated each other. Like our play there’s ended in death, the children who loved each other ended up dead. The other group used skills such as still image, slow motion, mime and many other skills. For example they used a skill such as still image when Romeo died and the family found out, everyone froze suddenly and began moving again when the mother was crying.

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The first scene was of the two fathers meeting in secret and Mr Makevele giving Papa the money. In this scene we used this dramatic technique called ‘still image’. This is where the whole scene freezes and no one moves.            The scene had a still image as the money changed hands. This was used because it was effective and would show the audience that this money transaction was important.  

The second scene is where we see meet both the families in a narration. A narration is where a person comes out of ...

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