The Performance Of A Professional Theatre Company

Introduction The company name which our group chose was Vivid Theatre. I chose this because it reflects how we were a professional theatre company, and I wanted our performance to be vivid, and engaging. This is why our group chose this name for our company. The brief which we received was: ‘†¦We are such stuff as dreams are made on†¦.’ Our piece would be performed as part of a weekend on a youth project; the content had to be suitable for community audiences. This meant that whilst devising our piece I had to keep in mind the target audience and what would be appropriate, for example: we couldn’t have issues which were too controversial or serious as this would not be suitable for the audience. Our piece also had to engaging in order to†¦show more content†¦Then I had the idea to do our piece about the civil rights movement, this came from the ‘dream’ that Martin Luther King had in his famous speech. This is the idea which the group decided to agree on and base our piece on, ‘equality’. In order to make it relevant to modern day, the group decided to relate modern issues with equality to the piece as well. I contributed the idea to this that we should focus on homophobia, which is a modern day inequality, as well as referencing inequality issues which have been going on for much longer- racism. Initial Research: After deciding on this theme, I did a lot of different research. I used the internet mainly to learn about poignant moments during the civil rights movement, and for racial equality throughout history right to modern day. I found information on things such as: Rosa Parks; the Montgomery bus boycott; Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream speech’ and assassination; Little Rock Nine; the first black president of the USA; and how police brutality in America (cases such as Michael Brown’s murder in Ferguson) is still present today. The research which I did helped the group as it gave us idea on what to base our scenes off. Whilst doing this research, it really surprised me how much discrimination is still present in society. I also researched homophobia, in order to help us devise the more modern aspects of our piece. Whilst doing this, I discovered information about