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TIE: Homelessness

Our task was to create a piece of drama about homelessness to educate our audience. (Theatre in education)

The first thing I did was research about homelessness at home. I found out from my homework: Why people become homeless, some of the reason I found out:

Finding suitable housing and unemployment

Relation breakdown 39%

Heavy drinking 21%

Losing job 18%

Having no money to pay for housing 13%

Around a quarter have mental health problems

Around a half have drink problems.

It was important to do this research because it helped give us more idea’s and know more about the issue of homelessness. This then helped us decide in our performance why we would become homeless. I found out all different reasons why people become homeless and we decided all of us would use one of those reasons.

I also did a mind map in class for the possible idea’s why someone would become homeless and what we could use in our performance.

 

Possible ideas    

 The first thing we did was get into groups and did 3 still images based on homelessness to give us idea’s and to help us understand the types of things to include in our performance. The first still image was of 2 different women one with money and a family and another having an abusive husband. Our second was the women with the abusive husband getting beat up, which caused her to become homeless. Then the third one was the women on the street, homeless and the other women and her children seeing her helping her. In my group we discussed our ides and decided to develop them. We then used our mind map and research to help us get an idea. We all sat down and discussed our ideas. Some of our ideas were to become homeless because of domestic abuse, being evicted or being abandoned by parents.

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We did have some problems, we had a lot of people in our group so it was harder to work and focus. We overcome them by listening to each other.                                                                      This also helped us improve our work by giving us more ideas to work with, .e.g. Dying because of being homeless, and being abused by father which we used. Also we could make our performance longer.

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