HIC Day 5 Discussion

Today we had a discussion about what we actually want to put in our performance. We spent some time going through what we thought of each idea that we previously done and started narrowing down our topics. We then decided on out audience and the effect we want to have on them also the style of performance we want. As a group we decided that we want our audience to feel like they have experienced something and maybe learnt something. We also wanted our audience to be thinking about something as they leave and maybe inspired to learn more about whichever topic we chose to do. With that in mind we decided we didn't want to do a realistic or naturalistic piece, however we also didn't want to do a Brecht piece because as a group we felt we have done a lot of Brecht recently and want to get away from it. This led us to our actual topic, we talked about doing drugs but the majority felt that was to GCSE for us, we felt the same way about war but I really like the idea of war. I feel if we look at a specific war that no one really thinks about or knows much about or look at war from a different point of view then it could have great potential. However we have done a lot on war recently and my group are adamant that they don't want to do it. We also discussed adding more to our slavery piece or our Hillsborough piece but decided against it, we felt we had done the topics and wanted to move on to other ideas. Toby had researched the Armenian Genocide and wanted to try and do a piece about it because it was a devastating moment in history for some people yet not many people know much about it. Kyle also wanted to look at kinder transport so we decided that as a group we will research into both topics.