A Performance Including Education :: Drama

This task was to include education in a murder to be shown to primary school children. This performance needed to reflect on issues silent by children of this age and to be clear and straight forward while explaining the message.Three weeks ago we were set an denomination to last until now.This task was to include education in a performance to be shown toprimary school children. This performance needed to reflect on issuesunderstood by children of this age and to be clear and straightforward while explaining the message.My first reaction when I heard of this task was one of excitement andanxiety. I knew this assignment would be challenging which made mevery eager to start as soon as possible. However I was worried as Iknew that all ideas would have to be adapted for the age group andthat there would be censorship issues.There were many ideas put in to a interchange on the first day of thetask. Within our group these were our main ideas-Abuse, drugs,smoking, trust issues & bullyin g. However we knew most of these ideaswere not compatible for the age group of the audience so we narrowedit down to three main ideas-smoking, trust issues & bullying. We knewthat whatever idea we used we would have to make it humorous to allowthe children to enjoy themselves. We also had any(prenominal) ideas on how toportray these ideas allowing the audience to understand and enjoy thehumour. These ideas were- Men In Black(spoof), Batman(spoof) & Spider bloomers (original character made from typical superhero names andcharacter).During the rehearsals we went through the several(predicate) ideas and at firstwe decided to act out bullying through peer pressure however when weperformed this to the group we found that it was very boring which wasnot what we were aiming for. So we then changed to trust issues usingspider pants (we could not use men in black as we found out it hadalready been done previously we also could not do batman due to thecostumes and props needed to make it re alistic),However we were unableto carry out our idea of spider pants due to the unfortunate absentsby myself and another person in the group & so when we performed thisit did not come out right. We then eventually changed to a athletics aboutkidnappers. This entailed the theme of trust issues and was comical.It was not only the ideas that would not work though, we soon foundthat some members of our group were not prepared to work to the finis