Today we performed our political protests that we have been
working on outside of the lessons. Our political protest was about political
correctness and has it gone too far? I felt overall that our protests went well
and that our message got across to the audience well and that we also
incorporated a theatre element to our piece in a good, creative way. However
there are defiantly different aspects of our protests that I would change if I
was to do it again. In our protest we had three people being prisoners and to
people be guards and they were acting as the government and taking away our
freedom of speech as we were being limited in what we were able to say, by them
covering our mouths and like a declaration reading out what the proper things
to say.
Another thing I think that we did well was the way we showed
how some aspects of political correctness have gone too far. We did this in the
way that we had the three people in mask’s singing “baa baa black sheep” then
having the “government” taking away their freedom of speech, by forcing their
mouths shut. This showed the way that small things that hardly relate to
anything, the government are changing and to the public can seem stupid. In the
protest we showed how pathetically laughable this can become, when we started
singing “baa baa rainbow sheep.” Also we had the two people representing the
government read out certain things that you can’t say anymore, such as calling
you pet and “pet” because it is derogatory. They were reading the out like a
declaration; this added humour because they were so serious about what are
seemingly stupid things.
Also I think that we spent a lot of time looking into the
research of the issue of political correctness, the different views of it, the
news paper articles and all the things that it incorporated. Consequently we
knew a lot about our issue and we have a lot of information to work with,
however it turned out that we had spent more time on the research than we had
on the actual performance and devising process. This meant that we have less
time to rehearse and to explore the different things we could do in our
performance, which could have weakened our protest as a whole. Also with the
amount of information that we had, we were slightly hindered because it we had
so much knowledge that we didn’t really know where to start or what to focus
on. This made it difficult to highlight the most important thing and to make a
really powerful performance, as there was so much that we could choose from and
we didn’t really know what we should use and what we shouldn’t.