A Devised Presentation

Authors Avatar

Jordan James Rason

A Devised Presentation

I am going to write about a piece of drama that I devised in a small group then on a later date performed to the G.C.S.E drama groups. In this essay I will mention about the initial ideas my group had then I will move on to talk about the way in which we chose scenes and cut scenes and then will evaluate my performance including my personal thoughts and the audience's reaction.

We were put into small groups and given some stimuli. They were a poem, a quote and a picture. The picture was of a man who we thought was homeless as he was wearing tattered cloths. We then thought of reasons for him being homeless, such as alcoholism, gambling or domestic trouble when he was younger. We couldn’t think how we could make an original piece out of any of the ideas we were coming up with, then someone mentioned he could have had a lot of many then lost it because of something stupid. Straight away liking the idea we went about thinking of why he lost his money. I said he could be having a mid-life crisis. The group liked this idea and we then just thought of ideas for a very basic story line, so we then could start developing characters.

We agreed that we needed a beginning that would grab the audience's attention. This would make sure that they are going to concentrate on the play and what is to come. We felt a good way of doing this would be to leave them asking questions because they would have to watch the rest of the play to find out the answers.    

Then we thought that the main character could be half narrating the story, so that everybody knew what was going on during the piece. As the character was having a mid-life crisis they could have been explaining to a psychiatrist what there problems were. (At this point we realised that the stimuli had done its job in starting us off with an initial idea so we decided it was time to hand it back in). We decided that the reason the main character was seeing the psychiatrist is they have consciences that they can see but no one else can. By doing this we eliminated the idea of the mid-life crises but we chose it as this would mean that 3 main roles were sorted out.

Join now!

Now we decide was the time to cast the roles of the characters we knew who were in it. Rene would play the main character, Marco would play the psychiatrist, Bradly would play the good conscience and I would play the bad conscience. When developing my character I thought about what people see as being one of the most evil things in the world. When I thought of what it is I would base my character around that in some way.

After a bit of thinking I realised not only is he the most evil thing in the world ...

This is a preview of the whole essay