4.48 psychosis by Sarah Kane- Daniels practical

12/09/14
Daniels practical- 4.48 psychosis

During this practical session Daniel improvised by making us use objects that had been left out in the drama studio from the class that had been in there previously to us. What Daniel made us do was pick one object that had been left in the drama studio and pick an emotion and then act on that emotion by creating a still image by using the object of our choice.
We repeated this step three times and but each time picking a different object to use as we carried out our emotions in our still images. Once we had done this Daniel added music and we done it all through from the very beginning going from one object to the other in the order that we had done it in. From doing this we realized that each and everyone one of us had created an emotion that was very lonely and tried to create a character in our minds that was alone and perhaps slightly depressed.
The next thing we did is we got given a stimulus by Daniel which was a piece called '4.48 psychosis' by Sarah Kane which was about self harm and we got into pairs and created a physical theatre piece to really tell the story of this self harm piece in the most interesting way that we could. For example, myself and Meaghan acted out the piece as if I was a very concerned but also a very stressed out mother and her daughter is the one that had been self harming. In this piece we tried to show that the daughter was very depressed, scared and wanted someone to talk to about how they were feeling and the mother was concerned but also very annoyed at her daughter but also with her self for allowing her daughter to do such a thing without her realizing sooner. In our piece we tried to show the elements of the characters being scared and distressed and we tried to create intensity by shouting.
Once we had come up with the pieces we then performed our pieces to each other and gave feedback.

Below is the preview of the script that we were given by Daniel in order to do our practical:

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