Comparison of own improvisation with " The Colour Purple".

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 Aleksandra Malolepsza                     Drama Essay                                    10Q

Drama Essay – Comparison of own improvisation with “ The Colour Purple”

In this essay I am going to compare and analyse the differences and similarities between my improvisation and a film called  „The Colour Purple”. My group’s play was based upon a certain part of a painting, painted by our drama teacher - Mr. Burgon. The painting was used as a stimulus. Our part of the painting was showing a man in a mask painting a car. WE had to build up upon it and produce a lengthy piece.

        The themes of our improvisation and “ The Colour Purple” are violence and domestic problems, abuse. Our play could be thought of as quite controversial, as it deals with domestic violence, child abuse, and rape to a certain extent. In order to make our improvisation as realistic as possible, and not too offensive I decided to research the topic in more depth.

Therefore I searched the Internet for information about the victims. I found out that the majority of the people affected were molested in their childhood/early teens. Most of them were naïve and not fully aware of what was going on around them. A large amount was in a single parent family. I also found out that the experience had an immense effect on their adult life. Most are not able to have a sex life, they rely on anti-depressants, self-harm etc.

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I think that it was harder to cope for abused women in “ the Colour Purple” because they had no one and no-where to run away to, whereas today women can call help-lines etc. to help them through their problems.

In our piece I play the role of Jade, a long distance relative (cousin) who 14 years ago was raped by Eddie, who then married Jade’s cousin Alison. She couldn’t have children so they decided to adopt a child. Jade fell pregnant at 14 with Eddie, so she gave away her baby to him and Alison and Eddie raised up ...

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