Evaluation. Our piece that we devised from our tragedy was set in the 1940s during World War 2. A solider on the German side has found love with an English woman

This idea of love and war worked very well, I felt as though we had used a very important area of time and then mixed in with the secret of their love affair. The piece we first created was very much like a soap opera so we felt that it had to be changed which reflected our ability and not a tacky devised piece.  Once we had decided on the logistics of the piece we had to perfect it and get running smoothly. I felt as though I learnt skills beyond the simple and basic ideas that are produced at a lower level of work.  I already knew what devising a piece was as we had done it throughout drama in lower school but I had never done a piece in such depth and with such meaning, this meant I had to learn and take on board skills that can get you a higher mark other than just using repetitive and basic skills.

Aberfan and the tragedy were two very different ideas and yet they still had a very important link, Tragedy. By juxtaposing you got the contrast of each of the pieces and in your groups you could talk about the comparison of each other and develop the ideas into the devised pieces. I felt that each piece both Aberfan and the poem had a very poignant moment which was hard to portray in the devised piece as one is such a large event and the other is so small you would hardly notice it if you read the poem quickly. With this contrast however it makes you look at each very closely to reveal the death of each tragedy.  

Overall I felt that we finally devised a convincing piece which portrayed tragedy’s in different ways, I also felt that I learnt a lot about devising and using non-naturalistic drama devices which will help me in my learning and devising in the future.