My partner and I decided to create something based on our first performance, we decided to create a scene that included trust and betrayal as it is included in our every day life’s today. We had many ideas but we decided to mainly focus on a plot twist because we both felt this mostly would keep the audience entertained and also make it fun as they want to know what the plot twist is and its also a surprise. So our performance was a direct scene after the situation which happened between the three of us, me and Mikel start of talking in a park, we did this as we wanted to show the audience what was happening after we left Henry so they had a clear idea and didn’t have to be questioning what’s happening? We start of by saying we haven’t eaten for many days to make the audience know how long it had been since the thing happened with Henry, afterwards we started talking about what we did back in our native countries and why wanted to come here as we wanted the audience to know a bit about our characters so they understood the play better. We got many inspirations from different stuff but one of the main inspirations were Cass (The prison part), this is because we liked the idea of Cass being in prison and writing stories about his life, we added the prison situation in our play and Mikel getting a shock of what had happened before the story is shown in Mikel’s dream that’s why he gets shocked this is a technique which is called anecdote. We also had an idea of making the scene a 10 years later scene as we wanted to show the audience what happened after 10 years, for them to create questions like, are we stable? did me and Henry ever speak again? But we didn’t do it because people would’ve wanted to know what had happened between this time which would’ve made the whole situation very complicated and the plot twist idea was a much easier thing to create and more exciting as the audience would think that the story would end in a way they thought it would but it wouldn’t so it came across as a surprise which makes it more interesting for the audience.

We had two main characters me and Mikel, Mikel’s name was Abdullah and my name was Akram we picked these two names as they are traditional used names in Syria and Turkey so we wanted to make it as real as possible. We were both males we decided to choose being males because It would’ve been easier to play them as we are both males and playing women would’ve been harder to play as the we might’ve confused the audience, we never decided on how old we were as we never thought about it. Our background is very known to us and the audience as there is a scene at the beginning of the piece were we and Mikel mainly focused on, we wanted to get to know each other better so we start speaking to each other about our previous life in our native countries and why we came here, which was good for the audience because they knew more about the characters they also would’ve understood the play better. We also had one objective, the objective was we wanted to make the audience know that most of the refugees that come to England or places like Germany, have had a stable life back in there home country and all of them come to these countries as they are afraid for there life’s and seek help as they could be killed. We wanted to make this point as most people think that refugee’s are poor annoying people that just want to beg in the streets of London, but they are actually not they just don’t have the same resources they did have back in there native country.

I tried to base my character on someone who has lost everything in his life as he had lost his family and money but a person that would never give up fighting and would do his best to try get the best possible life he could get. I based my character on a film that I recently watched called The pianist, the story is about a Jewish pianist who lives in Poland, the Nazis had just invaded Poland, so the Jews eventually have to be put in concentration camps which leads the pianist to be separated from his whole family and live the rest of his war life scared and poor, he never sees his family again. I got inspiration from this movie as I could see the pain this man was suffering and I tried to put it in my actions which helped me as I could compare my character with the pianist as they were in some way alike and use the same expressions he was feeling and to put in my character.

At first we wanted to use accents with our characters as we wanted to make our scene look as real as possible but we tried it in rehearsal and it just didn’t work the flow was poor and we would laugh as we found it funny and we were wasting to much time trying to perfect the accents so we decided just to use our normal accents. Me and Mikel tried to make our scene as real as possible so we tried to act like the audience was not there, this technique worked as our piece flowed very nicely as we were not nervous or embarrassed. I used my voice in a simple way, not shouting or not too quiet I did it at a volume where everyone in the audience could hear me but my voice changed during the piece as Mikel wants to kill me because he thinks I have money, so my voice changed to scared and nervous and one of the ways I tried to make this part as real as possible was to actually create a question in my head of how would I act in this situation, which made it easier as I put that in the way I acted. My body language also changed during the play went on, I started of as being tired I showed this in body language by sitting on the floor and talking slowly, but when we start looking for food I get a burst of excitement as I have the thought that we might find some food plus I haven’t eaten for many days, the part where I get scared my body language completely changes I try and make myself shake so the audience instantly know I am afraid.