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Angela Karanikolas:
--- Quote from: brenden on June 15, 2017, 05:30:59 pm ---That sounds super cool! Other than that concept of feminism, do you have any like, workable characters/plot points or are you not even at that stage yet?
One thing you could do... a series of one act plays. Not sure how long your performance is but you could do like 4 plays that go for 15-30 minutes each, with all of them focussed on issues facing young women, but with one main focus (body image, racism, so on). That gives an "easy" structure for you to integrate those themes into.
Otherwise, depending on the amount of girls in your performance, you could have each character "embody" some sort of issue, and their lives intersect without meeting each other, and they all come together at the end (maybe at a protest, or a support group, or some other activity depending on how you want to do it).
What do you think? Your concept sounds really cool!
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Thank you so much for your reply. This is super helpful. The idea of having every girl emody a current theme of issue will definitely help us in our construction.
Angela Karanikolas:
--- Quote from: meltingkeith on June 15, 2017, 05:37:30 pm ---Completely unfamiliar with how HSC drama works, sorry! Most of this based on VCE and how it likes to focus on non-naturalism and poor theatre. Please tell me to sod off if HSC is too different. :) Also, if you have some sort of design you need to adhere to, would be great if you could include a bit of it!
Something that could be cool would be to have a support group setting. Have you all in some sort of circle (maybe one leader upstage, with three characters sitting downstage staring with the audience [i.e., mimicing the way the audience is positioned], to try and make the audience feel included with this support group?), and each of them can go through some scenario in which they were disadvantaged? (as Brenden suggested) Then, when each character goes to talk about what happened, you could have the whole stage change to that setting, with the start and end of each of these little vignettes/side stories being narrated by the person telling the story?
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No thank you so much for your reply. This is really easy to adapt to the HSC and I will pitch this idea to my group. The ideas including audience involvement will really engage the markers so thank you for that.
sudodds:
--- Quote from: Angela Karanikolas on June 15, 2017, 09:18:15 pm ---Thank you so much Susie!! This will be super helpful considering we are quite stuck and drained of ideas. Having so many people do it can be quite intimidating but this has really helped out. Thank you again for commenting!!
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No worries! Glad to have been of some help :D Keep us updated on how everything goes :)
brenden:
--- Quote ---however remember that you only have 10 mins
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Super awkward - SORRY! In VCE, we get over an hour for our group performance, with IP <10 minutes.
sudodds:
--- Quote from: brenden on June 15, 2017, 10:31:34 pm ---Super awkward - SORRY! In VCE, we get over an hour for our group performance, with IP <10 minutes.
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dammmmnnnnn I don't know whether that's better or worse haha! Our first draft performance was over 20 mins, was such a bitch to cut down (and lost one of my favourite lines :'( ).
Yeah for HSC GP it's actually 8-12 mins (though you should aim for 10 as you'll invariably go over on the day - saves you the hassle of dealing with a mean marker who cuts you off bang on 12) and for IP 6-8 mins (if you're doing a monologue that is - my film had to be capped at 7 :'().
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