Evaluation - Personal Performance

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GCSE Drama 1699 – Paper 1 Unit 1

Portfolio A01 = ‘EVALUATION’

Evaluation of My Group

Our improvisation was set on a cruise ship on Christmas Eve. It showed the contrast between the mother, who was a cabaret performer, and her teenage son, who was forced to live on the ship with her. It showed how the teenager thought that he was better than everyone around him although the adults didn’t seem to think so. It also showed the troubles in relationships between mothers and their teenager children through how the mother had a sleazy reputation with lots of different men and how the son had to cope with it. Amongst this problem he had to cope with the normal teenage complications such as girls. This life through a teenager’s eyes was made in the hope to make you laugh and feel for the son. It was told by the teenage boy, who was a narrator and in the scene, which he read from his diary.

Natalie played the Narrator/Festus who was an intelligent, sarcastic and quick witted teenage boy who was not particularly good looking and was always competing against the adults who he thought so little of.

Maise played Festus’ mother who was a good looking cabaret performer whose ear piercing singing provided a constant embarrassment to Festus and endless amusement to the drunken men.

Joe played a drunkenly boisterous man that Festus catches with his mother. He was an over the top man who thought he was hilarious and revelled in telling his pointless stories to everyone whilst slopping beer everywhere.

Ash played the captain of the ship who enticed Festus with a tour of the boat in order to make a fool out of Festus and set him up with a girl. The captain was vulgar and was often partying instead of taking care of the cruise ship.

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Alex played the girl who the captain tried to set up with Festus. She was very kind hearted but a bit too friendly and narcissistic as she loved to talk about herself.

I contributed to our group by trying to make Festus into a believable character that was intolerable and loveable enough for the audience to laugh with him. I did this by using sarcasm and very longwinded metaphors to make him seem annoying, but also quite funny.

My idea for the plot was how a teenager tried to battle conformity, but by doing this ...

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