Come up with an interesting way of presenting the poem for the class - The Rustle of the Hood.

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Evaluation We were given a piece of stimulus which was a poem called “The Rustle of the Hood” which was about torture. Our task was to come up with an interesting way of presenting the poem for the class. We began by having Hannah and Simone facing the audience on blocks, which where placed in line but far apart, and then with me in between the blocks with my back to the audience. To begin the piece we said two lines of the beginning of the poem, “The rustle of the hood, the creak of chair wood” in a neutral tone. Then we lowered our heads slowly, so that they ended up facing the ground keeping our facial expressions away from the audience. We thought by starting the piece like this that it would create a sense of confusion and mystery for the audience. I am going to give an example of one of our scenes we did. We changed some words
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in the poem such as instead of “the instrument he choose” we decided on “the instrument of choice”. We did this just because it sounded and fitted better with our piece. Hannah and Simone said those words in unison and then we all said in reply “noose”, creating a small correlation of noise. Then after that Hannah and Simone turned to face me and then they stepped down. They took three steps: the first step facing forward, the second step facing the audience and then the last looking forward again. This was done in unison and silence to keep the ...

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