Reviews of Year 1 Theatre Pieces:

'Angel Against the Odds'

This 20 minute piece, to me, was my favourite. I loved everything about it. The storyline was showing inside an insane persons head and how he thinks there's a 'bad angel' out to get him, and all unfortunate incidents happen along the way, which eventually leads to the main characters death. The transitions were superb, they were so quick.They could transition from scenes where they were expressing the emotional state of the main character, to the next bad thing to happen to him, ie: all of his hair disappearing due to no reason, or an 'accidental' fire starting with no clue as to what started it. I had genuine chills when watching it because it was very haunting. I was gripped throughout the piece.
I can't believe such good work has come from Year 1 students in Term 1.

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This group was the 2nd piece that I saw, after 'Angel Against the Odds'. This was when i caught on that I think all of the pieces had a running theme of the  'Paranormal', as this storyline there was a haunted house, and there were kids playing close by to it. It was a repetitive nature of the same scene being replayed over and over until all of the kids entered this haunted house. They weren't to be seen again, but were shown on the door, as if they'd walked into the frame of the door. Again, this was a haunting storyline which also gave me chills.

All of the pieces, aside from these 2, all had the same elements to make up the same theme but resulting in very different storylines. They all used multiple characters and they all had 'the main character' played by every member of the group, they also used 'neutral actors' to show the emotions and feelings of the main character. This was a technique I used alot in college, so it was comforting to recognise parts of theatre I've come across.



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