Devising from stimuli

MYP: Devising from stimuli

Key concept: Creativity and perspective

Related concept: Arts, audience, structure

Global context: Personal and cultural expression (giving a voice: through articles, images, blogs, music, videos, and poems we can discover the voices of many and learn about the differing perspectives of people's situations and experiences across the world. Drama can be used to portray these voices in a powerful way to communicate the greater meaning.)

Statement of inquiry: Drama can help a community and individuals to find a voice and communicate in a powerful way.

Inquiry question: Can we use drama to communicate across cultures?

Reflection on plays of other groups

My group:
The acting by some of us in the group was done well and stayed in character, it was sort of realistic but not that realistic as when the criminal was inside the bus the cop went on talking with the reporter leaving the hostages with the criminal, the rest was pretty realistic.

Adils group:
The acting was pretty realistic as the construction workers tried to get the rainforest freaks off the trees by persuasion but then they called the police, the unrealistic part of it was that the police just showed up in a second after the call, apart from that there group was pretty realistic.

Ramis group:
The acting in Ramis group was very realistic as they showed a perfect surrounding of an office and how people interact in an office, also the characters stayed in their roles well as the character they're supposed to be, the play wasn't as entertaining as adils groups play

Script for play

Script For Drama: 

Characters: 

Frederik: Sandro 

Pranav: Police officer 

Poya: Reporter

Grace: Bus Driver 

Prerna: Hostage (passenger 1) 

Marcia: Hostage (passenger 2) 

The scene begins with civilians boarding bus 174. Sandro (antagonist) enters subtly but nervously. Before the bus leaves the station, the bus driver (Grace) demands tickets fro all passengers. Suddenly, Sandro pulls out a gun, points it at the driver’s chest and declares the bus hijacked. Nascimento at first assured the passengers; the police, the television crews and their viewers that he did not intend to kill anyone. Nascimento held these hostages for a ransom of weapons. Since, his demands weren’t met, he threatened to kill a hostage at six o'clock.

Bus 174

Bus Driver: ticket please? 

Sandro: (pulls out gun) (whispers) one word and you’re dead 

Passengers on bus are impatient

Passenger 1: (annoyed) What’s taking so long?

Passenger 2: I don’t have time for this!

Sandro pulls the bus driver to his feet and declares that he is taking everyone on the bus hostage.

Passengers are terrified, some cry. Yet they stream this on their phones to raise awareness. Therefore, reporters and police officers arrive at the scene in no time.

Sandro: Yeah, tell everyone to come! I want an audience!

Police officer arrives

Police officer: (worried) what do you think your doing?

Sandro: (frantically) S-stay back! (Points gun) STAY AWAY FROM MY BUS!

Police officer: (calmly) what is it that you want? Why are you doing this?

Sandro: I want guns… rr-riffles. Lots of them. And you! (Points at driver) you

will drive us away once they get my things.

Police officer is speechless

Reporter: (to the police officer) Sir, what is going on here? Does he intend on

killing these people? What are the police doing about this?

Sandro: I’m not a killer. Meet my demands and no one gets hurt.

Police officer: Listen son, we can’t just give you weapons. Come outside-

Sandro: -Oh really? You have until six o’clock! (Grabs hostage and points gun

at her head) or I kill her!

Hostage 1: P-please… I didn’t d-do anything. P-please! (Starts crying)

Hostage 2: You lied! You said you wouldn’t do this!

Reporter is interviewing the police officer

Sandro: (quietly, only to hostages) I don’t want to kill anyone

Hostage 2: Then don’t!

Bus driver: Listen sir… leave the passengers…

Sandro releases the hostage from his grasp and turns around irritated.

Bus driver tackles Sandro. 

Police officer rushes onto the bus, disarms and handcuffs Sandro. Next he thanks the driver for his services and bravery and the hostages applaud.

Props: 

3 guns (pistols and riffles) 

Scarfs

Handcuffs 

train surfing play

in our group our concept was that there was a train surfer (prerna) teaching a new train surfer (marcia) how to surf and when they got to a stop two cops saw them, there was one good cop (pranav) and one bad cop (me), the good cop tried to convince the surfer to get off nicely while the bad cop was yelling at the surfer. the surfer wouldn't get on to the train so the bad cop had enough of this happening so she jumped on the train and was forcing the surfer to get off. then the train started moving and the surfer got scared and jumped off the train as one of her friends helped he down (frederik) while the bad cop was trying to grab her, instead she grabbed the wire by accident and got electrocuted. this part of the act is where the picture was taken.  

group grading

Adils group: they showed very realistic scene of Brazil, with good sound affects, because it was simple but realistic
7/8

Gabors group: they gave good sound affect atmosphere but not very realistic as they just randomly switched characters and it wasn't that clear
6/8

Karims group: they didn't show that much of good atmosphere and it wasn't very realistic as they didn't do much
5/8

My group: I wanted us to get an 8 but realistically I think we deserve a 6/8 because we weren't very realistic and we weren't very clear with what we wanted to show
6/8