Week 6

This week we looked at our risk assessment, so we worked together to come up with ideas and scenarios related to actions or props that could bring harm to the audience, and the ways to reduce the risk. We also looked into our performance and wrote scripts for it.
In this lesson I also got to see another group’s performance. Watching this piece was really interesting, as they found a unique place in the school that was part of a mental hospital, looking at the different ways to show different ways of expressing mental health through performing arts. The way you were escorted through the space was in a wheelchair and you were given the impression that you were a new patient; this was emphasised when you got to the last section where you were treated as someone who was different and like a monster instead of someone who’s like them, but moves around or talks differently. They showed this as an awards ceremony where the individual got to stand with the winners, and the winners acted as though the individual is a monster.
In conclusion, I feel this piece had a powerful message behind it and it left us really thinking about how you treat people. The message was powerful and the aim was to defeat the stigma attached to mental health issues in society.