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Development Phase After exploring the war theme we began to develop our own piece of drama. I used certain explorative strategies from the medium such as form, movement, mime and gesture, music and symbols to help me develop my piece of drama. We also discussed how we could improve our drama piece using elements such as role-play, cross cutting and marking the moment. Discussing these helped us come up with ideas on how we could use them to link things together and how we could incorporate them into our piece. We used symbols as are main explorative strategy. We discussed how we could include a symbol throughout our piece of drama and what the symbol could represent. In the end we decided that our symbol would represent death. We chose death. As death is related to war and would fit in with all the pieces of texts that we are using in our final piece of drama. The symbol was combined of a gesture and a chant. Four members of our group began beckoning for me whilst chanting “Your time is up, come with us”. This was effective because it got the point across to the audience that my time was up and I had to die and that death had come to get me and take me away. After we had discussed ideas and wrote down a general structure to the play, we began to put it together. The play consisted of three pieces of text. The painting of the Napoleonic War by Goya, the Disaster of the Twin Towers and the poem ‘Suicide in the Trenches’, which was set in World War One.
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