By doing the exercise where we added in lines to make a conversation between the taxi driver and a costumer this helped me understand a great deal about the play. Since the play east end tales is written in a creative way where there is op cast and it is quite ambiguous in the sense that you have to formulate the characters in your head since there is no cast. This means that there is quite a lot of subtext within the play that we need to grasp. The activity was an interesting way to understand it because by adding in the lines that we did we understood that many things were actually over looked. This made me understand how to look at the text and analyse it properly which I will be doing as I continue to explore it and go deeper.
We then had to perform the script which we edited, this was interesting because we had to formulate
characters in our head of what the people would be like and how they would act. Since I live in the east end I had more of an understanding of what a character would be like not just base it off a stereo type. Creating the character also gave me insight to the play because I had to be cautious to make them refined and not too over the top. This helped me acknowledge the little details I may not have previously recognised.
Other pairs put the scene in situations which were quite peculiar and outside the box, this was effective because it made me realise that the strange scenarios could actually happen and not to make the scene typical all the time, being different will engage the audience more than a typical scene because it is more interesting.
The hot seating was effective because since everyone was in character whilst being hot seated, by asking questions we understood more and more things about the taxi which we could use to enhance our own act.
we read tale 8 from the play in small groups we discussed and interpreted the scsene, we then
