Evaluation of Performance

Evaluation Of Performance 

Syria 
Hard to rehearse without an audience because the performance is interactive/ immersive
We had a bomb so we weren't sure on how to represent it we tried physical theatre but there wasn't any room for physical theatre

Korea 
Research in was in bits but they couldn't find a full story on Korea
The group had loads of ideas meaning some had to be cut
They had too much research so they had to decide which ones they were going to use
The group had an idea but then realised it was best to show the emotional side and how it effected the Korean  children after
Also needed to learn which ideas were the best and had to cut some of the unnecessary ideas

India 
Heavily relied on props and they didn't know how big the audience was going to be was the biggest challenge
Also trying to identify how to use the time wisely with the props
The room was big and it was hard to utilise it
Rehearsing in a room that wasn't the "space" they had to make the set smaller but then when they went back to the "space" they had to make the set bigger again
It was difficult to find actual stories
They tried different improvisational ideas to see which one worked best

Homeless Children 
It was hard to find out the truth about how people live without making it up
It was hard because you don't know what the audience may ask you
They might ask you totally different things to what you have researched
Timing was hard to because you had to make sure the audience was at the right space at the right time
Friends hot seating the actors helped

Camp America 
Trying to find research as there is not a lot of stories about events in America
Found topics you can generate more ideas from and research different aspects on the camps
Started off that they wanted a shooting, in their group they researched different stories or shootings in schools
They didn't know if they wanted to use and actual toy gun or if they wanted to make the shooting an abstract scene                                                                                                                                          
Once they came up with an idea they would try different styles e.g. Physical Theatre and abstract

How did you shape and develop your ideas?
At first I researched different pictures and different paintings which symbolised refugees in Syria and the performance, at first we were thinking of using the stimulus but then we decided if we just expand on it. For example we also showed the different sides to the different pictures, you had the happy ones and the sad ones so we decided to demonstrate them both.

Did the props and scenery come first
In our group the tents came first and then everything expanded from there. That's when we decided to come up with the idea of different stories happening of different tents.

What is the most important thing you've learnt?
The most important thing I learnt was that it takes lots of time to create a devised performance and loads of co operation with each other. Also We had to learn only to use and pick out the ideas that can expand into bigger ideas

Did you prefer learning the lines last term or creating a devising piece
I preferred creating the devising piece because you got to use your own ideas and create your own play without having someone else direct you. Furthermore you are creating your own character with your own back story and there different relationships with other characters.

Immersive Theatre

Immersive Theatre
The play we are performing is an immersive piece because the audience has to respond to us and ask us questions. Also they have to walk around the room and take part in the performance, Before our performance the audience has to walk to our room after they've seen the other groups and are lead through by homeless kids and they are spoken to.
Furthermore in one of the tents the audience are asked maths questions and are asked to draw and take part in the different events/activities

performance proposal

Performance Proposal 

Dear reader,
My performance is called Syrian camps, and is about the refugees in Syria and what they do in  the camps.
This performance is set in one room but with tens inside and each tent holds a different story, therefore showing the people the different views on how refugees see the camp. I am trying to show how people especially the children react to the camps.
Also the play is set in Syria so we made the lighting look like the sun and we place sand on the floor to show how the camp is sandy.
I believe this show is good because it opens up the eyes of the audience to what the real world is like and how they could change/effect it.

Other Immersive Companies

Other Immersive Companies

RIFT
E.G they performed Macbeth where they had the audience meet with the witches in an underground car park, also they get the audience to drink and feast with Macbeth and take a restful sleep on the 27th floor - is performed overnight from 8pm - 8am

PUNCHDRUNK 
E.G they performed (Against Captains orders: a Journey into the uncharged) In this the audience receive life jackets when they first arrive and they become part of the motley crew of HMS adventure.

HEIST 
E.G they performed Heist which is when the audience are travelling around an area and are visiting different rooms with different scenarios and complete in many activities.

Script

Script 
Do you want to see our drawings 
S- this is a picture of the park in raka 
D- Yh we lived right next to each other 
S- Isn't that funny how we only met in art therapy 
D- There was this amazing swing that went so high 
S- When I used to go on it i felt like i was flying 
D- Your from london right?
S- We learnt about that in Geography 
D- We want go on the London eye 
S- Have you ever been on it 
(react to what the audience says)
D- Did you ever have the soup in the restaurant by the park
S- yes was so nice it tastes a bit like Zainab's soup 
D-  Yh it does 
S- You should go try her soup its really tasty 

Feedback

Feedback
- know where your audience are going to be at all times 
- Have a couple of people who are floating around like a shepherd to check on the audience 
- The audience needs to be able to flow through the performance without disruption 
- Change the audiences experience 
- not about action its about the world the audience steps into
- Make the transitions from one scene to the next be able to flow without trouble.

Things We Cut

Things We Cut
we cut the painting in art therapy to drawing because we do not believe that the audience will join in with paintings.
We also got rid of the painting on ourselves because we have to perform the piece five times. 
After the bomb we cut the piece where we put ashes on our face as the next set of audiences might come in and see us with all ash on our face and might be confused.
Furthermore the characters in the art therapy tent we change their ages to be 14-15 as it will be better to act our age then younger, also that way it allows us to act more emotional as the teenagers know what is going on.  

Devised piece timeline

Devised piece timeline:

• Angel's introduction speech: 1 Minute 
• Audience walk around and go see different tents: 5 minutes 
• Ben's tent with music: 30 seconds 
• Explosion/drop on the floor: 1 minute 
• Memorial tent: 2 minutes 

Devised piece in groups of three
In our exercise piece we got into 3 groups and we had to perform 3 actions each, describing the place where the scene was set which was:

• home 
• Work 
• Restaurant

My three actions for home:

• watching TV
• On the phone 
• Telling the 2 teenagers off

My three actions for Work:

• Getting files
• bumping into someone and dropping the files on the floor 
• picking up the files

My three actions for restaurant:

• taking food order
• dropping food on customer 
• getting fired

We did this to enhance our creativity skills and to help us work together in a matter of minutes to create a drama piece 

Set Out

The set out

We are going to have the tents set out around the room 3 on either side of the pathway which is going to be placed in the centre, But Amy is not going to have a tent as she is going to cook the soup outside. Right at the end of the pathway we are going to have the big memorial tent, which the audience are going to go to when the bomb goes off.  At the end in the memorial tent Luke is going to say a prey. 

We put the memorial tent which is the biggest at the back because it is going to contain the most items and is the most memorable because its is where the refugees go to mourn for there loved ones

We also left space in between the row of tents so the audience would be able to walk through without any struggle.

other groups feedback from me

Other groups feedback from me 

guantanamo bay

• Control the audience 
• Use sense and sounds 
• The guards calling home to show the guards home life 
• Involve the audience
• orange lighting 
• force feeding -porridge, bowls of food to show they are not eating 
• Using back story of guantanamo bay guards 

North Korean Camps 

• Live action
• Audience follows through 
• Kids kidnapping 
• Audience prisoners 
• Religion Buddhism, Christianity, they aren't aloud to worship as the country is protestant 
• big groups split into two
• guards give the audience tiny grains of rice to the audience to represent the tiny amount of food they receive

Camp America 

• categories showing anorexia, racism and slut shaming 
• using Florida as that's where the most camp/school shootings there are
• when the audience comes in give them marshmallows 
• involve the audience in singing the camp song
• In the camp fire the characters can share their stories
• monologue about self harm, talking about life and what its like to have depression

Homeless kids 

• Sleeping bags outside the room 
• have a soup kitchen 
• Make the audience give blankets to the homeless kids
• Put street work in the corridors 
• have boxes people go through 
• show what the kids do in the night 
• What games do they play 
• Trafficking people get sold to the audience at the end 

Theatre Development Ideas

Theatre Development Ideas

• Project picture on the wall while performing (post the stimulus picture on the wall)
• Someone could read a poem while the others in the group mime out what's happening in the performance 
• Show the contrast between the pictures using juxtaposition and peoples physicality 
• Someone reading a monologue of their past while the others perform it.
• Making the lighting of the performance a colour to demonstrate the emotional state of the actor E.G. The colour red to demonstrate the anger of the character 
• With the bomb we could have ashes on our faces. 

The tents

The Tents

Tent 1: Diary entries 

This tent is going to be filled with lots of diary entrys that have been torn up and lost, also we are going to hang washing lines on the top the tent using string and along it hang up some of the diary entries. Someone is going to sit cross legged in the middle of the tent surrounded by all the paper, and be looking at a blank diary.

 We Will Need:

• An empty notebook/diary 
• string
• scarp paper
• paper clips 

Tent 2: Nursery/ childrens tent 
In the tent we will be playing nursery rhymes in arabic to reprents that the kids are still kids and they have gone through such a traumatic event, Also it is going to play arabic songs that kids sing
We Will Need:

• Nursery rhymes in arabic 

Tent 3: supply tent 
This tent is going to have empty boxes that are labelled "water" and empty cans of food, this is going to demonstrate that in these camps they aren't going to have much food or drink to supply their families with.
We Will Need:

• Empty cardboard boxes
• Empty food cans

Tent 4: soup tent 
In this tent we are going to have a character cooking soup in her tent and when some of the audience comes into the tent she is going to offer them some soup, meaning that the audience can stay there the whole time if they would like to. 
we will need:

• Soup pot 
• large spoon 
• a travelling stove 
• pots and spoons for the audience 
• soup 

Tent 5: Art therapy 
This tent is where 2 teenage characters are having art therapy on the outside of this tent we are going to stick happy, lively, colourful pictures drawn by kids such as: as stick men families or flowers. But on the inside we are going to have drawings of the children's traumatising experiences. On the floor of the tent we are going to have lots of scrap paper and in the middle a tub of red paint. around the paint is going to be 2 kids dresses in white to show their innocence and purity, finger painting with red paint to show there innocence has been corrupted. During this performance they are going to ask some of the audience to paint with them, after they are going to be looking at the paint being fascinated by it. and they start putting paint on each other and the audiences hands, ans state "this is your fault"  "The blood is now on your hands"
We Will Need:

• Paint
• drawings

Tent 6: Ben's Tent
In Ben's tent all around on the floor there are going to be socks and Ben is going to talk to the socks. This is because his character is traumatised as all his family has died and the puppets he is talking to he thinks is his family. This symbolises how much he misses them and wants them to be back with him and in the background we are going to have Arabic music playing to convey there religion.
We Will Need:

• Socks
• lights
• music 

Tent 7: Memorial Tent 
In this tent we are going to have lots of pictures of people who have died with tea lights but its going to be an electric tea light. This is going to symbolise the loss of all the Syrian refugees, There is also going to be a missing persons wall because they really have that just in case the missing people find there picture and can notify their family.
We Will Need:

• Pictures
• letters spelling missing 
• Electric tea lights  

character research

Dear Diary,

My name is Maya i am a 10 years old and i am from Syria, but i don't live there anymore because my mummy and daddy said we had to go away as it was not safe anymore. I remember one night i was asleep with my little brother when i woke up to the sound of fireworks i was so excited i ran outside and went looking for the colorful lights in the sky, but the only colour i saw was red and grey. Out of nowhere i heard my mummy scream i ran back inside my house and nothing could prepare me for what i saw next.......

 My little brother aywa lying on the stone cold floor not moving a muscle i look to my right everything was in ashes my mummy was cradling my brother like there was no tomorrow tears pouring out her innocent eyes. Who could be that horrible to hurt innocent people. 

That day will follow me like a shadow for the rest of my life. 

Right now i just lost a game of chess to my cheating best friend Lely she would of loved my little brother but hes gone to a better place. 
Every so often i have to go to art therapy and "express" my emotions through drawing,  but whenever i draw i just get memorys of the horrifc things that happened to be and my family. 

Syrian refugee camps stimulus

Syrian refugee camps

hands are bound together representing that the refugees have no freedom. 

kids in a refugee camp holding hands. 

A little kid getting water in the poor conditions of the camp.

• 3.5 million people in Syria need humanitarian assistance
• 4.3 million Syrians are refugees, and 6.6 million are displaced within Syria; half are children 
• most Syrian refugees remain in the Middle East, in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt: slightly more then 10% of the refugees have travelled to Europe  
• Children affected by the Syrian conflict are at risk f becoming ill, malnourished, abused, or exploited. Millions have been forced to quite school.

Winter is coming: Refugees in settlements have fewer resourced then ever before. They need adequate food, warm clothes, shoes, blankets, heaters, and fuels.

Violence: Since the Syrian civil war began, 320,000 people have been killed, including nearly 12,000 children. About 1.5 million people have been wounded or permanently disabled, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The war has become more deadly since foreign powers joined the conflict.

Collapsed infrastructure: Within Syria, healthcare, education systems, and other infrastructure have been destroyed; the economy is shattered.