Section A – Genre, Style and Convention
Demi Pink
Our performance was a socio-political play as we explored the social and legal implications of taking a foster child away from the home that she grew up in and giving her back to her biological mother at the mother’s requests without taking her requests and views on the situation into account. Socio-political plays discuss and delve into issues in society which can have social and political effects in the society which we live in. The genre forces people to question what they think about certain subjects and can make them re-think their ideas on certain subjects concerning society.
Our performance is not naturalistic as we felt that by creating extreme characters the audience would be more likely to empathise and relate with aspects of their personality such as Moth’s sullenness, Chloe’s immaturity and Carol’s kindness. By creating these big characters they are thrust upon the audience and so the audience can’t ignore what they’re saying even if it makes them uncomfortable. We also chose not to perform in a naturalistic style as our plot spans over a larger period of time and in two separate houses and so we felt that the best way to do this without running the flow of the performance or distracting the audience would be too use two tables in order to represent the separate houses.