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.