We used other friendship related pieces for help how to approach the feelings towards each person. Such piece was Macbeth, written by Shakespeare. This play helped us find a way to show the audience our moral because in Macbeth there is a dominant female in the relationship who abuses her power and causes great upset. Our play was different from Macbeth because we changed the ending. In Shakespeare the ending shows Macbeth dying a gruesome death. If we had gone ahead with this ending it would have made the play seem surreal and not serious. We tried to use less action by letting the end be happy where the friends re unite and leave the woman. Macbeth was also performed in the medieval time. We tried as hard as we could to update the play to a more recent standard.
This would be performed to an average audience of 15 to 40 year olds. This is because the genre is very widely spread. We had the humour and the awareness for the modern teenager and the twisting love for the average adult. This would probably be performed in such places as America. This is because of the talk show at the end and the beginning. It was a classic example of American T.V.
Our resources were plays of love, and talk shows on TV. These two resources would help us cover all aspects of the play. Obviously there was more in depth research we had to do but they were the only the resources were all we would need to have a broad idea of the whole play.
Our main aims were to stay loud and keep the audience amused. Hard scenes and ludicrous plots did this. We used many techniques for rehearsing the play. The one we found most effective was to rehearse the hard scenes first and to do little bits of a scene at a time.
Our first approach to the talk show was to have a camp show host, this presented a problem because it mixed with the emotions and would not help put across a serious point. We used as little acting as possible because action in a play could easily turn into wooden acting. The positioning of the scenes was hard because we had so many separate ones. This then also presented complicated lighting. We used the master lighting to try and cover the problem with lighting, and we were able to go first so all our scenes could be set up before the play was started.
My input to this play was a sympathising mate who was the lucky one and got a girlfriend. I used anger, and love emotions to show that my part new how friendships were more important then girlfriends. This helped the whole group emphasize our moral. I also tried to use the complete opposite emotions from my partner Mike who had the role of the friend who cared more for his girlfriend. This would give the audience an opinion of both a person who cared more for a friend and a person who cared more for his girlfriend.
The play on the whole was a success because the lighting and the acting came together nicely. However it seemed as if a few scenes were skipped because of the small amount of time given to act and the sudden jumps from night to night. This could have been made up for because of the emotions we used which gave the right idea.
