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Evaluation

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Evaluation Everything we worked on and all the little ideas we had started off with, had been developed and worked on to create this final production. Our main focus for the scenes was to react to everything being said in the play and to also to strip away any 'pretty crying/screaming', and the fear of showing raw emotion. I believe that was our strength throughout the entire play. We could have worked on constantly keeping the energy up and working on some cues to create an organic flow. In the first scene, I noticed that in the video my voice was not as projected as I wanted it to be, i should speak towards the audience more and not downwards. Jaychelle who plays Haleema projected her voice and the emotion in it very well. I also picked up that Georgina who plays Ruhab, says her first lines as if she is reading, maybe it is because her character is supposed to be girly and proper. Some cues appear rehearsed and not natural in the first scene. I was able to make the audience...
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Proposal

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Unit 12 proposal Starting off unit 12, our class as a whole had some ideas of plays to look at already, including 'our country is good' and 'torn'. The reason why we didn't follow through with these plays is due to the fact that there were not enough of us, to begin with. We spoke about double casting each person, but some others that were included in our plans were a bit unreliable, so we were unsure whether we wanted to trust these people to learn their lines and cues for this play to come together because it has a lot of potential. In the end, it came to a vote where the majority did not want to do this play. We were then offered other ideas from each other and one that was good was girls. The past two years I have been working on myself and gradually progressing. Each performance that I've done, I've been consistent in developing how my character feels, knowing where they were before they got to this particular place and situation, what they think...
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Girls research

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Girls is a play inspired by true events following Boko Haram that occurred in Nigeria. Nigeria is a country located in West Africa. Nigeria is religiously diverse, Islam and Christianity being the top two that are the most popular. Islam takes up 50% of religion in Nigeria, Christianity takes up 40%, leaving 10% to other religions. Nigeria has the largest Muslim population in the sub-Saharan African region. National Chruch of Nigeria, Abuja National Mosque, Abuja Tribes There are different ethnic groups and tribes in Nigeria, Hausa is an ethnic group that is predominantly in the north, 95% of this tribe are Muslim and the remaining 5% are Christians. The Yoruba tribe are mainly located in the west, 55% are Muslim, 35% Christian and 10% are other religions. Igbos ( East) and Ijaw tribe(South) were 98% Christian and 2% practice traditional religions. Social Issues Human rights in Nigeria Nigeria's Human rights appear to ...
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