I thought that the exercise was not only entertaining, but it helped to give us insight. Like if one scene can be presented many different ways then a writer who is writing something for the stage needs to be very precise about what they want to see on the stage. If they give the director a lot of lee way on how his script can be interpreted then the director will use it. It also helped us to see how in our minds different types of characters are usually portrayed in our minds and how media has a lot to do with that. For example in our script in which we had Saddam Hussein and George Bush Saddam was portrayed as the villain and Bush was portrayed as a hero, but in that part of the world maybe Bush wouldn’t be considered as a hero. A lot of what an audience is going to assume comes from what the media and their environment makes them believe.

Alright picture this! The production starts with the crew starting on a ship. It’ll be pretty big with a white stage and backdrop. There will be a set script with dialogue and there will be a band who plays music to set the mood for the events.The ship will be moved white rope pulled by stagehands. The crew gets off (only 6 people) and the ship breaks up. The production will be a fastforwarded account of the hardships of the crew.

I thought that our production went very well. It was simple clean and easy and it seemed like the audience really enjoyed it. The audience didn’t really seem like a factor, but that might have just been because there was a small audience. Putting this play on helped to show us as a group the many different ways that a play can be presented to an audience and how the smallest little detail can make the play be seen in a totally different way.

In my group it’s been pretty easy to work with my group members. There has been minimal disagreements in our creative process and everyone has been mostly in sync with each other. This experience has provided our group to have a lot of fresh ideas and many different things to be able to be added into our production.

Today’s class exercise taught me how stage directions can completely change how a scene can be viewed by the audience. The groups were handed scripts without directions and they had to interpret what the writer was trying to convey. Then the groups that wrote the plays came up and performed and it was seen how different the two performances were. This showed me later when I’m writing a script whether or not i should have stage directions or not. Should I hold the actor’s hand throughout the performance or should I leave it to interpretation.

Peter Brook states that theatre can happen in any space regardless of the presence of a stage. He says that all that’s needed is an empty space an audience and an actor.

Theatre is anything that is performed in front of an audience designed to captivate them. This includes opera, dancing, ballet, and plays. Theatre is designed to entertain the audience.