In English, I have had many opportunities to display and grow my capabilities. Task 6 Dramatic performance was a learning experience that allowed me to develop my abilities, especially creatively. Working with two classmates, we decided to look at feminism and the mistreatment of women as a whole. We looked at three different social groups, including women who want to stand up and speak up, women who felt powerless and stayed silent, and men who were uneducated and mistreated women. After deciding on our topic, we had to get our creative juices flowing and think creatively about pulling the play together. Thinking creatively, we came up with the unique idea of showing a focal character at three stages of her life to help people understand that this issue affects everyone and make it audience-appropriate.
We had to think creatively about how to costume our play as we had limited resources and no time for significant costume changes. We decided to use symbolic objects to represent each character. The focal character, in different shades of blue as well as having age-related symbolic objects for each stage of her life: child-pigtails, teen-leather jacket, adult-Balzer, lucy-bow, hunter–hat, bus driver-steering wheel, making it easier for us to have multiple characters and for the audience to follow the storyline.
To set the scene for the audience, we created a video displaying each scene’s locations with transition slides to following the storyline. We wanted to think creatively and think of a way we could reach the audience about this issue. We thought of the idea to break the 4th wall and address the audience. We did this at the end of our playset out a protest. We spoke a speech about the real-life issue at hand, bringing this issue into reality into the real world out of the world of the play speaking to the audience, which connected us with the audience. This project allowed me to grow my creativity and helped me to think creatively in new ways to create a performance.
