Look at an extended part of "Too Much Punch for Judy".

Workshop5- The Development

The second part of workshop5 was to look at an extended part of “Too Much Punch for Judy”. We were given a true piece of information that occurred after the original play.

“ A hard hitting Documentary Play telling the true life story of a girl who kills her sister in a drink/drive related incident. Ten years later she went on to be responsible for another death in a road accident where she was not only drunk but had Cannabis in her bloodstream.”

Using the original style in which “Too Much Punch for Judy” is written our group devised an ending to the play based on the information just given.

In this we used flashback, monologue and crosscutting. The fact that we used these three techniques meant that we could enhance the performance by using the drama medium and the elements of drama.

As we used cross-cutting we had 3 people often playing one character to make sure that we put this across we used the same costumes, for example, Judy in the past was wearing the same as Judy in the present.

We used emotional background music for the monologue part of the performance, this enhanced the dramatisation by making the audience feel a certain emotion, and it also indicated to what the character was feeling.

As we used crosscutting and monologue, we used the spotlight to indicate where in the stage the drama was focused at any point, this mad sure that the audience did not become confused.

We used spoken thought to portray what the main character was really thinking, this showed the all of the emotions going around in her head.

The elements of drama we used were more subtle, the plot that we used followed on from the story we had already heard. We carried our drama on in this style by using monologue and flashback. The climax of the story was really the whole performance as we find out that Judy is responsible for two deaths not just one.

We used contrast in the piece by showing how happy Judy was before any ...