blood brother evaluation

Our use of off-text work was effective because we said things that we felt a seven year old child would say that was not in the script. Like when Linda and Mickey explain to Eddy the time that they got caught by a police man. Eddy shoed them his delight which Linda thought was strange so she said to Mickey. ‘Your friends a right weirdo’! Then Mickey stood up for him and said. ‘Oh leave him alone’. We also used a dramatic pause after Mickey swore at Sammy.

We planned our audience to react in a few ways. For example when Mickey swore at Sammy we expected our audience to be surprised. We wanted them to be sympathetic towards Mickey when Sammy told him he was going to die for swearing.

First we brainstormed how we would start the rhyme at the start of the scene and how Sammy would disrupt it. The main idea was Mickey had to find a way to get Sammy back for bullying him. We developed the scene by improvising in the rehearsals. Mickey Sammy and Linda were most important in bringing out the themes because Sammy and Mickey had an argument and Linda was there to comfort Mickey.

The most important element of our presentation was the contrast between the two classes. We showed this in many ways such as, when Mickey told Eddy to bunk under his fence but Eddy didn’t want to get his blazer dirty.

Overall our strengths were our humour, off-text work and out accents. Our weaknesses were our use of Drama strategies. If we were to do the scene again I would add scarfar and a still image to capture the keys parts of the performance. I feel we didn’t use enough Drama strategies. The strategies have helped me and my group a lot, and we shall use more on our next play.

We made improvements to the scene during the rehearsal process like the position of Eddy’s house. We changed it because the character that played Sammy had to change in time for his queue as Eddy. We also added off-text lines because our dialogue was short. The result of our changes was good. I shall be using all these techniques for any further plays that I am going to do.