Producing Your Own Play :: Theatre Drama Personal Narratives Acting Essays

Producing Your Own PlayRecently, two friends and I structured a erect of theatre involvingthree causas and their journey through life. Throughout the capriolethemes such, alcohol abuse, child abuse, drug addiction and many otherthemes showing the mental capacity as the characters come across harddissions during their journey through life. The play is about threecharacters who are faced with many temptations in which all resultingin some sort of addiction and later resulting in the character endingup in a mental hospital.The play is fast moving and perceptive entertains and thoughtprovoking, funny yet ultimately tragic. Throughout the planning of ourproduction we came across a few difficult disicions, one that reallystands out in my mind was how to show the audience a sub-consion veiwof the characters thoughts, we wanted to really show the depth ofthese characters giving the veiwer the ability to understand thecharacters choices. To enable this we decided to use fable incertain sc enes showing an angel and a devil both giving adive to eachindivdual character. We wanted to give the play a theme of BlackComedy this tutelage the audience more intreaged.My partners and I decided we could create our own characters, Idecided that when my character first enters the play aged 9 years disusedI wanted to play this child to the best of my ability, I found thisdifficult at first for I had never played a character who wassuffering with child abuse. After thinking about how I would play mycharacter I decided that to give the veiwer a deep insite of mycharacters thoughts to acomplish this I tested to come across as a veryinsicure child, growing up with no love or affection in his life, thissuggesting I would keep my utter in a quiet pitch and also while mycharacter grows older and discovers he is a free person he still istraped with his engender torment constant in his mind, this resulting inhim turning into a more visiuos man with a very controversal veiw uponwomen thi s veiw growing into an addiction, growing to the ecstent wherthe only pleasure was when he would kill women GRABBING EVERYWOMEN IN SIGHT INTO DARK ALLYS LATE AT NIGHT, in certain scenes weused ryme to give a stronger affect.Later on in the play my characterfinds himself in a mental hospital, my characters mind was no logerstable and useing very simular insicure body language like when I wasa child I tried to give an affet where I was trabbed in my childhood