Coursework on Scrooge:- Response

Our last still image showed a picture of everyone smiling and scrooge with his arm round tiny Tim. This was to show how scrooge had changed and become a friendly and better person to be around.

After this working on this workshop we were then giving a script from scrooge. In my group I had Michaela, Leanne and me. We were giving a scene with the characters Scrooge, Bob Cratchett and Scrooge Nephew. We decided that we wanted to have the opening scene with Bob Cratchett working sat at his desk and the spotlight on him. When performing the rest of the scene we had to think about out physicality. For example in this scene scrooge is very angry and annoyed that the Christmas season was falling upon him and he can’t stand it as he hates it so much. As I was playing scrooge I had to get across to the audience my angry character and how much I did actually hate Christmas. I found that hunching my back, talking with a deep voice and with an angry look on my face worked well. Leanne was playing Bob Cratchett. She did this well as she looked very timid when scrooge was talking to him which is exactly what Bob Cratchett is like around Scrooge. Also when she talked she was very hesitant as she didn’t want to say anything to upset Scrooge. She wanted to be on his good side. Michaela was playing Scrooges joyful and happy Nephew. Her character at some points had to put across a very confused character as she couldn’t understand why Scrooge was so unhappy at this time of the year. She was also very confident when talking to Scrooge and isn’t scared of him. Also her character becomes very sarcastic at the end of the play when she says ‘And a happy new year’. She knew this would anger Scrooge but she still does it.

Our final workshop was a piece of stimulus which each group picked out of a box. In my group was me, Rachel, Kieran, Jacob and Nick. Our stimulus was a letter which was old and said ‘My dearest, I’m sorry to have to tell you I am leaving you, the times we’ve spent together have been so special’. When given this we came up with many different ideas but in the end we decided on to people not being able to be together because to two families don’t like each other. This was inspired from the Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’. We started the scene by using cross – cutting. I was on one side of the room at a desk writing the letter and on the other side of the room was Nick reading the letter. Neither of us were speaking on the stage. It was all narrated by Rachel behind the curtain. She read out the letter whilst I was writing it and Nick was reading it. The next scene showed the two lovers holding hands and Nick saying ‘My love, my love, never leave me’. This was then lead onto a fight scene between the two families. As the girl I wasn’t involved but I was watching with horror. My family was called Crips and the other was called Bloods. This was to show the family was war with each other. The end of the play showed a wall and the two lovers on different sides. To indicate that in the end they couldn’t be together.