Introduction :

In our piece we used a poem and a image of Alyan Kurdi on the beach as stimulus. Our piece was about a child being abused by his father , then a social worker comes to help but is too late . After receiving a distressing call from the child but it’s to late as  hem finds the child dead and the father gone . He then decides top kill himself as he’s been through a lot and can’t take any more. After seeing the stimulus I thought of a question , a question about the relationship between a father and his . I was the farther , Tyrese was the child and Ashan was the social worker. The whole image of Alyan Kurdi and the story made me uneasy and feel a little sad for the father With that as stimulus I got to thinking of father and son and how they should be together . The image of Alyan Kurdi was uneasy and in class we focused a little on how the man picked him up and carried him . Away from his body and he looked unfazed . I also though of how the father feels and how he’s coping with the death of his sons. And I want people to question the relationship’s between father and son and take the role of the social worker. They should have an opinion on whether or not the social worker was at fault for the child’s death on some level. Although this was not communicated through the piece I’d like people to think of the social worker as Alyan Kurdi’s father some time down the line . As the father shares a lot of qualities with Aylan Kurdi’s father. Both Family’s are dead and it’s said in the piece that the Social Workers father is dead Our central question was what is the relationship between the father and son . There could’ve been other questions like . How should a father treat his son , Was the Social worker wrong , Was it the child’s fault , Would you’ve intervened earlier and should the social worker took him we he first came to the house.

Item 1 :

My central question is What is the relationship between a father and his son. I though of this because my piece has a big bit of it where its father and son and seeing how Tyrese(the son) was treated by me(the father). From the image of Alyan Kurdi and hearing the story of how it happened I though about father and son . I thought about how the father tried to be closer to his son and thought of reversing it . I though of the father being away from his child and the child being abused.From the stimulus a number of scenarios could be thought of . You could think of refugees or father and son or just play it out . When I see the stimulus and think of basing a scene of it I think of some characters . A Father , Son and a Refugee . But the theme of all of them would be home and the piece would be about leaving or returning home. The idea we used was one of my first ideas but I had some others. Most were about leaving home and/or being a refugee but I decided to do something different as I thought most people would do this. One idea was that I’d be a refugee in a new country after fleeing and have to deal with coming to a new country after leaving my family and I’m haunted by my children’s ghost. With the idea we actually did there are pros and cons . Like the realism of it all . The socials workers death might not be realist ,  as well as the abuse by the father to the child . The are also pros to the idea. Like showing something different. The social worker is the most interesting character and the most complex. Throughout the piece we learn that child died . He also kills himself in the end due to things he’s seen and the people he’s lost . He also blames himself but this might not of come through because of some mistakes that were made my us . There we some cad mistakes like the end scene happening in the corner of the room and Tyrese beckoning me on stage while the camera could see him . This cause some awkward moments like walking on the stage sitting down then just walking off as Ashan forgot to say goodbye. Many things could have been included like the social worker could have been Alyan Kurdi’s father . As well as the positing of where we did some of our scenes. We should have stayed central always looking at the audience. After ashan left the house he should have walked home while taking on the phone to his boss not whilst in the sons room. The phone call Ashan received from Tyrese should have been a split screen with both actors placed right next to each other looking at the audience. Tyrese also made of not putting his hand on his forehead early enough to hide the cut as well as the mistake of dying in the corner so The suicide scene lost a speech that should have been faced to the audience that would’ve contained the social worker blaming himself then killing himself . The was many ways that piece could improved and it due to changes at the last-minute it suffered . My character was very simple an abusive father blaming his child for the death of his wife. My character was not based off a person it was just something I though of . If we had done things correctly I would’ve had more screen time and been able to share more about the character and let people see what type of person he was . I wanted my character to come off as dark and sad . Throughout the play I was relaxed and in a position which showed that I didn’t really care . The piece was not improvised a lot because we all new what we need to say and with my limited screen time I found myself with only 2 scenes , I also found myself directing/commanding my peers somethings they needed to do . My central question was What is your relationship with your father and I think we didn’t do that good a job of getting that message across and if we hadn’t loss a speech from the social worker at the end we would’ve .