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PROJECT BRIEF
Write, produce and perform your own one-scene comedy play. The play should be loosely linked to your experience of secondary school – although it can be purely fictional – and the intended audience is teenagers.
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To be successful in this project, you will need to:
bring an imaginative and creative idea from page to stage
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write an engaging and humorous short play script
make consistently imaginative choices in staging the play
perform convincingly, speaking clearly with sustained engagement with the audience.
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The basic theme or idea for the script could develop from absolutely anything to do with school. Here are some ideas to get you started: Someone is late for school – again
Someone has been threatened by an older student and ordered to bring in some money or ‘there will be trouble’
Someone is in trouble Someone has lost something ‘borrowed’ without for something they permission haven’t done
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Someone has left their PE gear at home – again
Someone suspicious is in the school building
1 Brainstorm a list of potential ideas: think about funny or dramatic things you’ve seen so far this year or maybe funny stories you’ve heard about school. ACTIVITY
2 Once you have chosen your basic idea, you must now try to develop the plot. Complete the plot development exercise in your activity book (see pages 103–104). 3 Now complete the planning the plot exercise in your activity book (see page 104).
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