Drama Notebook - The theme that we were given to work with was justice.

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David Southern                                        

Drama Notebook

The theme that we were given to work with was justice. The dictionary describes justice as “The quality of being just”. We thought that to find pieces of drama about justice going to be hard, not to mention performing it. We thought of splitting justice down in to its basic elements like revenge, punishment and righteousness. We used revenge as our subject we also tried to incorporate it into the sub text. In doing that we created a question we couldn’t answer which was “how far could you take justice before it turns into revenge?” With this in mind we tried to make the audience think about the answer.

The running order for our assessment were as follows:                                         1) A tarot card reading                                                                2) Medea                                                                                 3) Dance drama                                                                        4) The darkness out there -improvisation                                                5) Sweeny Todd                                                                        6) Mime based on IRA radio article

Our initial idea for the start was to have two people sitting at either sides of a table so they are facing each other. One of the Characters would be a Gypsy fortune-teller and the other would be the listener. The fortune-teller would layout some tarot cards for the spectator to see, one card will then be turned over to reveal the card revenge.                 We were going to have the picture projected on to a screen to show the audience what was revealed on the table. We ended this scene with a tableau to make the audience think of revenge and

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Our first play was Medea. Medea was produced in 431 BC and is the 2nd earliest play along with the lost plays Philoctetes, Dictys and Therista.                          The general story line for Medea is as follows. Medea's husband Jason has left her and their two young sons in order to marry the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. Creon threatens to exile Medeia and her children, but Medea persuades him to allow her to stay for one day. After an argument with Jason, Medea encounters Aegeus, king of Athens, who agrees to give her sanctuary, unaware of ...

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