The most horrific

I found the most horrific a really hard peice as i always focus on character, and in this paticular peice, as we were all named either A, B , C or D, we didnt really have much identity, which i found hard. I am a very political person in genreal and always keep up with current news stories and articles, so i was familiar with most that were mentioned in the peice. I liked the clear seperation between the A and B's and the C and D's. We had to use our phyicallty most of the time and were told to be at a 7 the majority of the time. I liked how much we portrayed the steryotype of the 'Media Wannabes', i also enjoyed the use of newspapers and coffe cups as props. Throughout the rehersals i think that there was a lack of energy because of the subject that it was about. It was really hard to have to be so jokey and calm about such distressing subjects. I also found it really hard to be at a 7 physically whilst sitting down. I think that one of the stronger aspects of the peice was that i used my voice effectivley and i think that both 'teams' worked well together to create the peice in the best way that we could. the space was also a really cool space to work in, as we wanted that office like, simple space. I think one of the weaker aspects was that sometimes the C's and D's spoke on top of us, so sometimes it was hard to know who to watch, and who was talking at one time. 

I really enjoyed watching the other peices as well as it was interesting seeing the same peice but done in 3 completley different ways. I loved Wills class as i think they really captured the point of veiw of the public and how disinterested they were in such sensitive subjects and how interested they were in things such as the x factor and celebritys. I think that this really did the peice justice and how serious the C's and D's were and how jokey the A's and B's were. I also really enjoyed Sarah's group and liked their incorperation of music and the 'audition space', it was completely different to the others, which was quite refreshing.

I think that our final peice went really well and we had the perfect balance of energy and seriousness for the performance. At the beginnning of the show, we all had to perform individual group protests, this was also really good as it showed contrast to the laughter of the performance to the serious of those situations (attached). We performed a protest about homophobia in Uganda, i already knew about this story and knew how serious it was. we used the use of silence, we didnt talk throughout until we all individually told our stories. i think it was effective as we were all really aggressive with one another. I liked the promenade aspect of it aswell, as they went around the space and witnessed all of the protests/peices and then went into the space and were able to see a more relaxed peice.

By using Brecht’s different techniques over the term, they helped me develop a deeper understanding of what it really means to present a piece of political theatre to an audience. Brecht believed a piece of political theatre should leave the audience asking questions about themselves, what they just saw and society itself – I feel we definitely managed to achieve this successfully and effectively and that we not only left an impact on those viewing the performance, but on us, the actors, as well. I have thoroughly enjoyed this political term and studying both “The Most Horrific” and Brecht’s techniques. I have learnt many different skills over this term which I have never had the chance to develop before and I have gained new knowledge and experience that I will definitely use in further pieces and their development.