27/06/01
A missing past
We have been exploring how unwanted and orphaned children were forcibly evacuated after the second world war to Australia, made to forget their previous lives and roots and then how some, as adults, rediscovered their past lives by contacting Margret Humphries through an advertisement placed in a newspaper.
From the topic I learnt to do another drama form, abstract images, when we showed what the children thought of Australia when they got there and what the people who received them thought. Also, that, many people (children) these days take their parents for granted but in those times they would have know what it would have felt like.