Over the past few weeks as the company formed we first discussed what roles each other would like to take on, what previous experience we have had and what our individual strengths are. After our discussion I was given the role of marketing within the company based on my previous experience. This was a role I was happy to accept as it is an area I have a personal interest in and it gives me the opportunity to learn programmes I have not had previous experience in.
Once we had decided on roles we discussed ideas for our performance. We had decided that we would like to utilise a verbatim aspect of theatre. We knew that we wanted to target the 16-25 age bracket so each member of the company went and did some market research and found out that the people of that age range would be interested in seeing. Most of our feedback suggested that we follow a route that would not be too serious, it was the lighter hearted plays which appealed to that age group more.
Over the past week we have been able to start building on our performance and begin the devising process through improvisation.
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