The stimulus material given to me is about a organisation called project prevention, a particular member named Barbra Harris  has  claimed to help prevent the extremely young (infants) from becoming addicted or involved with drugs, which I agree is a noble cause but what would disagree with is their complete disregard for the drug addicted parents. you see in order for them to prevent children from being born affected by illegal substances they pay drug addicted women to be sterilized and if their pregnant, abort their unborn child. In opinion these people and what they do compared to what they say is at the very least is questionable.project prevention tried to establish itself in the UK many times but was not allowed until 2010 however it was allowed in the US as soon as it was created, this alone proves that america is more accepting of controversy than us.   If I were to meet anyone within this group I would ask why not try helping people right here and now who are addicted to drugs instead of basically taking away potential lives, they obviously have more than enough funding to do so and this would be a more solid and potentially perm init solution instead of tempting these poor souls to make even more mistakes than they already have with their lives. project prevention is covered in contradictory and should not be allowed to take advantage of the weak and preform these eugenic treatments on them.

Item 1: my groups performance is about a young girl named Samantha and a quick show of her development from a pressured model citizen to a lowly abuser of drugs and desperate for help to get her life on track. this is linked to project prevention cause when she is on the edge of desperation she seeks out help from project prevention but before she makes the same mistake as many other women before her she refuses and goes to an AAA meeting to discuss her problems. In this performance I played as Samantha’s father who had so much pride in his child that it caused her to feel pressure about letting her father down, if this was to be developed we would of shown the fathers reaction if Samantha lowered her standards and his pride in her getting over her drug addiction. this is linked to the stimulus  because it represents someone who was able to escape their shady acts.

Item 2: In the first part my presentations I discussed the development of the characters and the plot if we were given the time to preform a full length performance.

1. I would have liked to spend more time on Samantha’s development from an upstanding person to a drug addict .

2. I would’ve liked to establish and develop the relationships she has with her father and James.I could do this by incorporating the use of space within the characters, for example if the characters distance themselves from each other then it would show that their relationship is also distant.

3. also to show how and why James became addicted to drugs? ,did Samantha know about his addiction?, how did this affect her and their friendship?, were they still friends while he was on drugs?

4. when Samantha was on drugs did her father know?, if so what was his reaction?

questions I would like to find out and answer.

Item 3: In the second part of my presentation I discussed my groups use of our props, the meaning and how they link to project prevention.

1.we used the setting of an NA meeting in background for all the scenes as a way to separate the preforming actors from everyone else on the stage we made it clear who was acting to the audience this way also it helped us keep all actors on stage at all times.

2. we used a blood covered blanket many times also. it was first used to represent the birth of Samantha and as she grows up it always appears in the use of something else in her life, it was also used as a symbol of project prevention’s blood shed of the unborn and their shady treatments on women.

 

Personally I would evaluate my groups performance as very effective way to express how and what could cause people to turn to drugs while indirectly or ignoring my groups central question.” Is addiction a choice”.using our performance I’d like to think that the audience will come up with their own answer.personally I think the NA meeting background setting worked well along with another non-naturalistic technique we used to show Samantha escaping project prevention’s clutches. we could have improved the way we established the friendship between James and Samantha and how they developed.

Jacks groups performance was very effective showing project prevention disregard for drug addicted women it also show the inhuman procedure that these poor souls are reduced to. effectively proving that project prevention is not the right  solution. they represent this using  very disturbing and gory methods for example they show the treatment with the women on their back while having I’m assuming their unborn children ripped out of them, which i wouldn’t put pass the organisation.   the acting of the women’s agony and the gore was very effective. they could have acted a bit more natural in some scenes, it was very effective in others but in my opinion to non-naturalistic.