I have now read three of the four plays and will offer you all the opportunity to read them for yourselves early in the new school year.
I think you all have the general idea of why “Love” wouldn’t be possible to do as a school production. With multiple sex scenes and strong adult themes, it would be extremely difficult to sell the play to management, let alone to the public.
“After Dinner” while very funny in parts again explores some fairly strong adult themes, with one female character describing in some detail, how bad her late husband was at sex and commenting on his size. One of the male characters describes how bad he was at sex and how much difficulty he had satisfying his wife. Another male character describes in even more detail the problems he has with sex.
The third option, “100″, is a really interesting play, both in it’s themes and the way it is staged. It would give us a great deal of room to explore ‘physical theatre’ and would be the sort of play that many people wouldn’t usually be exposed to. It has a cast of five, who would need to develop multiple characters and require us to go beyond naturalistic theatrical techniques and experiment with some new ideas.  It would take very little in staging as far a set construction, costumes and props. It would allow for some real creativity with lighting and sound design.
As I said, I think it would be worthwhile everyone reading it during the first week back. I’ll get in contact with Currency Press again and see how far away “Be My Baby” might be.
As far as your SAC, it might mean some of you also take on assistant production roles in the musical to help contribute to your folio. Remember the folio is not like the one we did in Unit One so don’t go collecting a whole lot of information to cut’n'paste, because it isn’t that sort of task. However, many of you have an idea of which stagecrafts you might be involved in, so you can start getting your own head around what responsibilities you might have and what technical terms you need to understand and be able to apply. I will try and publish a list of the production roles here in the next week or so, before I leave for overseas.
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