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Frantic Assembly are a vastly known theatre company, which formed over twenty five years ago. It is located within London. The co-owner Scott Graham founded this company in 1994.  They have created many pieces of work, including but not limited to: I Think We Are Alone, Othello, Beautiful Burnout, Things I Know To Be True and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. They have collaborated and commissioned with a rage of writers, such as: Sally Abbott, Simon Stephens, Andrew Bovell, Mark Ravenhill and Bryony Lavery- they have even toured the work with their productions- visiting approximately 40 countries. Their company is best known for their work with physical theatre, they include it within their productions perpetually.  But saying that, you might be wondering what physical theatre ACTUALLY is. Physical theatre is a rather abstract tool for performing- it is the primary method of story telling with physical movement. It incoperates techniques such as: mime, gesture...

For this task, I decided to look at the 'Edgar the Dragon' advert, a popular John Lewis advert from Christmas 2019.  Watch Edgar the dragon in joint John Lewis/Waitrose Christmas advert - YouTube The plot of this advert is about a Dragon named Edgar, who is friends with a little girl called Ava. However, he can't control his fire breathing and there tends to be calamity whenever he's around. He tried to control his fire by putting a scarf around his nose but it just doesn't seem to work. The town turn against him when he accidentally burns down the big tree, a snowman and an ice rink. But Ava still wants him around, and tries to get him out of hiding. One day she manages and brings him to the dinner table, and everyone is mortified. Until he uses his fire to light the Christmas pudding and everybody cheers.  This advert is very light-hearted and family friendly. It's a sweet story and is rather emotional, especially when we see how upset Edgar is as he feels he...

Welcome to my evaluation of my time spent working on ‘Opening Doors’ a production by Keith Badham, who is along with being a writer, a director and performer. Badham’s work is rather relatable and connects to an audience, as he portrays realistic occurrences in life, and sometimes tabooer and niche subjects. This show follows many different stories of individual characters; wavering from birth to death, and everything in between. Scripts for this performance were given out on the 17 th of September and it really pushed our class to work as an ensemble. As a whole, this piece lasted approximately 20 minutes- though we did spend over a month devising and perfecting it. Rehearsals during college would run all week, from Monday through Thursday and often we would stay back after college hours and rehearse. TASK ONE- WARM UPS As an actor, you need to ensure you are fully prepared for your performances. To do so, warmups help put you in the right headspace- along with physically warmi...