1. How did your role emerge and how was it communicated?

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Olivia Lewis

1. How did your role emerge and how was it communicated?

 In this piece I took on more than one role, as did the rest of the actors in my group. We took on a Brechtian style throughout the whole play, giving a very physical, exaggerated and satirical style to the acting. In a Brechtian production the actors would use gest and exaggerated expressions to become an un-naturalistic representation of their character. In our play we didn’t have a certain character that each actor would play, instead we would change character in each scene, another Brechtian technique. Our play was about the mail order bride industry, and the bizarre concept that relationships can be bought. 

 The first character I play in the piece is a doll that is a representation of the mail order brides. We chose to use this, as the mail order bride industry is like any other commercial product industry; the woman becomes the manufactured good and we felt that having the bride as a doll puts emphasis on the consumerism. Also being a doll implies that the woman has no voice in this, that it’s just a selling process, she doesn’t make the choice in the relationship as she is the ‘product’ and therefore whoever buys her is her ‘owner’. By having this representation it also shows the one way ‘control’ in the relationship, the husband provides the wife with shelter, and then, like any other product, the wife is there to satisfy the man. I was also a doll in three other scenes in the play.

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 The next scene was quite dream like, it derived from a dream one of the group members had, and with some thought we created ‘The Desire’. There wasn’t a certain setting that we aimed for; we just focused on presenting and communicating with the audience. The scene was a man and his two female assistants, who were asking the audience members what they would have if they could have anything at all. By the end of the song, the man grants someone a wife. The aim of the whole play is to create shock within the audience, to show the ...

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