For our drama exam, we had to follow Three main phases of work. A Response phase, a Development phase and an Evaluation phase.

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For our drama exam, we had to follow Three main phases of work. A Response phase, a Development phase and an Evaluation phase. The Response phase consisted of three tasks. The first task being a simple characterization task where we had to form a single frozen picture and provide thought tracking for the character we selected. The aim was to help us start understanding the way in which the characters were feeling towards the situations and each other. The second task required us to perform a scene based on the theme of gossiping. Most groups that performed played on the element that the gossip was something that should be kept secret or shared greatly. This task helped us to get into the frame of mind of someone spreading some gossip, which lead on to the scene involving the lullaby (Act One, Scene Two).

        The lullaby was where the Mother-in-law and the Wife are both singing about the stallion and how he is so tired from running. The idea of this was that they were almost gossiping about what Leonardo had been up to. The insinuations that they are sharing in Scene Two were based around the thought that Leonardo was riding to see the bride. We were permitted to use various dramatic devices in these plays, and one of these that we chose was to use mime. Our play was staged to have the three sections that we felt important kept as separate as possible. Below is a storyboard of how we performed our play.

This scene showed us how to make our characters react to the varying circumstances. One of these was realisation of what was happening. The realisation of this partly affects the way that the characters behave like to each other in the continuing scenes. We then discussed how the scenes were significant in their own ways, and the dramatic devices used.

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        We then moved on to the Development phase. This started by us performing a scene based on symbolisation. Our aim was to try and portray a significant action scene where the main character was the bride. Our group decided to make the scene focus entirely on the bride and only slightly on other characters. Below is the layout of the scene we had:

The scene we laid out was to have each of the emotions come in with a character. First, the Bride entered with Despair. Then after the bride ...

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