Thursday 5th - Week 1

Thursday 5th November 2015

In this class we were given a new title for our scene because Madrassas are a place of education, not a camp. Our new title is 'Homeless children'. This opened up new ideas to help us explore immersive theatre.
In our group, I was a live blogger, collecting and editing information for a research blog. As a whole class we did general research into homeless children. Children live on the streets for many different reasons and our whole performance will hopefully show a range of situations. We had textual researchers who found information about homeless children from the library, Online researchers who found link to useful websites and information. We then began to brainstorm thoughts, ideas and words which will help us to create the performance. We then began to devise the piece using our initial ideas.

We worked with different ideas such as Christmas carolers as volunteers handing out blanket to the homeless, however, this idea was scrapped and we decided to set the scene in a soup kitchen, allowing us to bring some positives to the piece. We then found the idea of filming a campaign video to help those in need and raise awareness. When the camera roll is 'cut', we would have monologues, based off true stories from homeless youth. this is meant to make the audience think next time they watch a campaign video about what is happening behind  the scenes
We found that many true stories of youths showed that they were grateful to soup kitchens.