Our Day Out by Willy Russell Essay -- Special Needs Britain Our Day Ou

Our Day aside by Willy RussellFor our second module, we looked at the study of the play Our DayOut by Willy Russell. The play is about a special needs class fromLiverpool going on a day out to Wales, and the different dilemmas theyput their teachers Mr. Briggs and Mrs. Kay by (like stealinganimals from a zoo).We had to choose three key outcomes that we thought were the mostimportant sections from the play and where we thought drama was builtaround. For us, the key characters in the invention are Mr. Briggs, astrict teacher Mrs. Kay, a gentler teacher, and Carol, a quiet pupilin the special needs class. We used different explorative strategieswhilst growth and performing our drama. This essay is the responseto the play.Our first key moment that we chose was a conversation between theheadmistress and Mr. Briggs. We thought this was a key moment becauseit showed a nod off in Mr. Briggs perspective. We got to this conclusionafter a group discussion. We decided to hot seat the char acters inorder to develop them. We wanted to find out how Mr. Briggs genuinelyfelt about not having the total authority. Mr. Briggs developed into astrict disciplinarian who disliked most people. However Mrs. Kaydeveloped into a sweet motherly type teacher.Our second key moment was Mrs. Kay defending herself and answeringback during a disagreement with Mr. Briggs. We decided this was a keymoment because it let us show a completely different side to Mrs. Kay.We used thought-tracking so we could show the audience Mrs. Kays realanger. However the actor playing Mrs. Briggs plant it difficult toadapt to the change in character. To help her and the drama out, weused the explorative strategy forum theatre so w... ...ned herstatus. Mr. Briggs responded by seeming to subdue so there was anapparent change in status.Our final key moment was marked by an aside by Mr. Briggs. The finalkey moment shows Mr. Briggs destroying the film after the day out. Weshowed him destroying the film as an as ide so that the audience knewsomething that the characters didnt Dramatic Irony. There was nodialogue during the aside which do it much more effective. The asidealso suggested that Mr. Briggs didnt change at all and that it wasall an act. It developed the audiences dislike of Briggs even more.Mr. Briggs however, regained his status once again as he was the onlycharacter left on stage and he was centre stage so all eye were onhim.Overall I think our key moments were accurate and the explorativestrategies we used helped us develop our characters and our drama.