Bad magic - It was a piece of improvisation work and was based on the theme of witchcraft.
Jennifer Young
Drama Part 1 Assessment
Bad Magic
My practical work in November - December was for Option 4. It was a piece of improvisation work and was based on the theme of witchcraft.
My contribution to the performance was as a performer, acting as the witch, who throughout the play was a mysterious, unsettling character. I had to act superior to the other characters and make them fear me by using arrogant speech and reserved body movement.
To help me in my work for information on the Internet and watched television programs involving witchcraft. During my research I looked at The Craft (film), 'The Crucible' by Arthur Miller, Macbeth, The Wizard Of Oz, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 'The Crucible' is set in 1692, and based on the Salem witch trials. The characters are not really witches just accused of being so, and the play is more to do with people misusing authority. 'The Craft' is a 1996 film about four girls in school who do not fit in and dabble in witchcraft and become very powerful witches, but three of them misuse the power, and the 4th witch (Sarah) takes their power away from them, this film is a much more modern take on witches and I found it very helpful. Macbeth by Shakespeare involves three evil witches who are the stereotypical ugly hags of most old stories. In Buffy The Vampire Slayer there is a character called Willow who is a witch and the storylines involve her performing various spells a lot of the time and when she is at the height of her magic her character can change and she becomes addicted to the witchcraft itself, she is also a modern witch who isn't a stereotypical ugly one. (i.e., The Wizard Of Oz 's evil witches of the East and West are very ugly, also are Macbeth's witches).
