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By Noël Greig

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Final Cargo

An Introduction

Final Cargo is a play telling the story of various characters as they embark an adventure on a ship. The main characters were: The Skipper, Ruth, Engineer, Cook, Night, Day, Benjamin and Boy. Each character plays a strong role in this play that affects the way the play progresses. As the ship sets sale both the living, the dead and the ones above view the tale and tragedy of this boat. With a climatic end, the boat is capsized by strong waves and The Skipper, Ruth, Engineer and Cook meet their fate at the bottom of the sea…

To make more sense of the play and the various meanings and symbolic morals from it, we have explored in a wide range of formats:

The Response Phase

We used these explorative strategies to enhance the understanding of the play:

  • Still Image - In a group we created a still image of the boat. We then showed the various ways to demonstrate calm/disaster with the use of our bodies; then we added words that related to our calm/disaster pose such as sun, breezy, and still for calm, and choppy, crash, and thunder to show disaster. This technique is called soundscaping: using words to enhance and exaggerate what you are showing.

  • Thought Tracking - This was a technique similar to the still image. Instead of creating something we became a character from the play and used our bodies to demonstrate how that character might look in a calm/disaster still pose. After we had done this we then soundscaped our poses and used words related to the calm/disaster situation and what sort of thing our character might say.
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  • Learn a Line of a Character – What we did is basically what it says, ‘learn a line of a character’. We needed to show a good line from the play that portrayed a general adaptation of the character. We then got into groups with people that had the same character as each other and took it in turns to use our body language to show how our character would say this line. With each person taking it in turns, we were able to see how people viewed their character. We then looked at some of the ...

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