London sanctuary group welcoming refugee's

http://www.cityofsanctuary.org/node/395

Given Circumstances+Why i want to play the two characters I've chosen

Lesson recap

In  Thursday's lesson we talked about given circumstances and gave some to our characters. Given circumstances are simple statements including facts about a person or character e.g "Ara is a from Afghanistan" I had to give some given circumstances for the two characters i wanted to play;Refugee Manager or Roza.Here are the given circumstances i came up with:Refugee Manager-

• She runs the refugee camp

• she's from London

• generally friendly but serious when needed

• a sort of mother figure to the refugee's but not as emotionally attached 

Roza-

• She's from Iraq

• she and Hassan are friends

• they get along because they speak the same language

• friendly and always putting up with Hassan's teasing

This made me think a lot more about the characters and want to find out more about their background. it made me understand that there is much more to the character than what's written on the script.

Why i want to play the characters I've chosen 

I would love to play a character like the refugee manager because it's a great character with lots of different personalities. one minute she's friendly towards Kojo, the new boy, and the next minute she's breaking up a fight and being very strict. i would love to be able to play this character and work on showing these different personalities throughout the play.

My second choice of character was Roza, although she doesn't say much she is a vital character because she helps Kojo throughout his story alongside Chueng,Ara and Hassan. i think that her relationship with Hassan is quite comedic and would love to get to play a character who uses comedy in their part.

Research on Afghan war for Ara's character

UK forces have been in Afghanistan for almost a decade. The death toll now exceeds that of the Iraq war and more than 100 soldiers died last year.

The true number of civilians killed in the Afghan conflict will probably never be known. ISAF has only recently begun to count the numbers of civilians killed.The U.S. has authorized $557 billion to fund the war in Afghanistan — enough for every man, woman and child in Chicago to buy 20 iPads, 30 Kindle Fires, Bulls season tickets and a campaign fundraiser photo with Michelle Obama every night for a year.Very little is known about the elusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar — except that he has one eye. According to Abdul Salam Zaeef, a former high-ranking member of the Taliban, Omar lost his eye fighting the Soviets in vicious, hand-to-hand street fighting in the 1980s. Zaeef wrote that the next day, Omar had to be persuaded to get treatment rather than continue the fight.

 

kojo

ara

cheung

Response to Fugee :)

In yesterday's theater lesson we were introduced to our play we would perform in term 3, Fugee.
I think the play is very well written because the actors come out of character and speak as the actor,so it tries to get the audience to understand that it's not real and they are watching a play.I have never used this technique before and it would be fun learning how to use it.
I'm looking forward to rehearsing and performing this play :)