Tommie Aspinall DRAMA GCSE PAPER 1 UNIT 1 06/10/2008
TOWN MEETING NOTES
In the town meeting as part as our drama GCSE I played a character of a father. The character I played was joined with my wife played by Genine and daughters played by Emma and Gabrielle. My daughters were perfect and never did nothing wrong. In the whole performance there were about 20 characters. Some of the characters that were played were police officers, families with good and bad children, shops owners, club owners, bouncers, grandparents, teachers from the local school, and some teenagers. Once we were told what to do as a class we discussed the possible ideas of characters which I listed above. Some characters we discussed that were good ideas such as teenagers, families and the mayor. Some not so good ideas were maybe having a famous person which the teenagers looked up to such as Elvis. Maybe this could happen in an ideal world but I don’t think it’s possible in the 1950’s. I chose to be a father with a family. I chose this character because it’s a realistic character to play. In the 1950’s if a town meeting which affected the town was to be held the whole town would be there as they were a close community. Now a days this is where things start to change a show a contrast, because things like that wouldn’t happen theses days. Originally, I was going to play a character of an old person. I decided not to play this character because the father character is much more relevant, and then there would have been too many elderly characters. Once we had the characters in place, we decided on the layout. We had the people with power at the front such as the chairman and the mayor. We then had rows of chairs with an aisle down the middle.
