The document discusses the aims of a devised performance piece about how different people in society are treated. It aims to entertain audiences of all ages with a humorous and interesting piece featuring exaggerated real-life scenes. The style used is realism, with plot and character development coming from exaggerating real-life situations to create comedy and clarity. The goal is simply to entertain audiences with the performers' creative minds and enjoyment of the process.

1. Creative and Media: Level 2 Higher Diploma Unit 2: Performance
Level 2 Higher Diploma Creative and MediaUnit 1: Scene
2.2.5 Aims of a performance
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Devised performances
Consider the aims of a devised performance piece of your choice, answering the questions
below.
What is the theme of the piece?
The theme of the piece is the how different people in society are treated.
Why did we choose the theme? (E.g. what was it about the theme that excited and/or inspired us.)
We chose this theme because it is an unusual theme that hasn’t really been approached by people of our
age group and we saw this as an exciting challenge to prove to ourselves that we were capable of
completing.
Who is it for? (E.g. family audience, teenagers, pre-school children.)
Our performance is suitable for all ages and for family audiences as it is a humorous and interesting
piece with various scenes of exaggerated real life.
What do we want our piece to do? (E.g. shock, amuse, educate.)
The only thing that we wanted to do for our audience was entertain them with our creative minds and
enjoy what we were doing.
What style(s) of performance will we use? (E.g. naturalism, musical theatre.)
Realism
What are the dramatic possibilities of the piece? (E.g. for plot and character development,
staging.)
In our play, we are using real life situations in which we exaggerate in which to create the comedy for
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the play and to make it clear on what is happening.
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