Stimuli and its results.

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David Cruise

Drama Coursework

Group: David C, Bradley W, Natalie T, Joanne R, Hannah E, Claire H, Carrie G, Louise V

Task one

   We were given the following stimuli: A book, Ohh Ahh Showab Kahn.

  When we had finished reading the book, we were quite happy, as there are lots of possibilities when basing a play around racism. The book itself, is about the only Asian football player in the premiership, who had to face a lot of racism, and had a lot of problems, but managed to pull through.

 

  We thought about it and decided to do a play not too closely tied to the book. We had come up with a few ideas, and we wrote them down, and voted. The idea we ended up doing was around the idea of the television programme Wife Swap, and so we went with that idea. We concentrated on the subject of not judging people by their appearance, or by the way they speak. We thought that we should try and have two completely different families mixing.

 

Task Two

In role writing

  My name is Professor Dimebag Bopp III, I am a well known psychiatrist over here in the states. In march of last year I was asked to do a show over in England, in which they swapped over the wives of two completely different families in order to see how they would react to each other. Of course, I agreed to it and I flew over the pond the next week. I was called in my hotel room by the director of the show, I can’t remember his name, and he told me exactly what the show was about, two families, the Tongos, a poor Jamaican family, and the Dicksons, an upper class English family. They were going to swap the wives of each family around for two week, and I was going to assess each families reaction to the new wife. We were due to rehearse the studio filming tomorrow.

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When I got to the studios, I first went into makeup, and then I spoke to the director, who told me exactly what to do when I get on stage. We did the rehearsals as well as possible, as the Tongos hadn’t arrived yet, but the Dicksons were there. Around half an hour later, the Tongos had got to the studios, and we were nearly ready to film.

  I was introduced by the host and I went on stage. When the two families were introduced to each other, their first reactions were good, they were surprised, and happy ...

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