Our Day Out by Willy Russell Essay -- Special Needs Britain Our Day Ou

Our Day Out by Willy RussellFor our second module, we looked at the work of the play Our DayOut by Willy Russell. The play is ab knocked out(p) a special needs class fromLiverpool going on a twenty-four hour period out to Wales, and the antithetical dilemmas theyput their teachers Mr. Briggs and Mrs. Kay through (like stealinganimals from a zoo).We had to take up three linchpin moments that we persuasion were the mostimportant sections from the play and where we thought drama was builtaround. For us, the learn founts in the story are Mr. Briggs, astrict teacher Mrs. Kay, a gentler teacher, and Carol, a quiet pupilin the special needs class. We used different explorative strategieswhilst developing and playing our drama. This essay is the responseto the play.Our first key moment that we chose was a conference between theheadmistress and Mr. Briggs. We thought this was a key moment becauseit showed a doze off in Mr. Briggs status. We got to this conclusionafter a group discu ssion. We decided to burning seat the characters inorder to develop them. We wanted to find out how Mr. Briggs genuinelylyfelt about not having the total authority. Mr. Briggs developed into astrict disciplinarian who disliked most people. However Mrs. Kaydeveloped into a sweet motherly type teacher.Our second key moment was Mrs. Kay argue herself and answeringback during a disagreement with Mr. Briggs. We decided this was a keymoment because it let us show a completely different side to Mrs. Kay.We used thought-tracking so we could show the auditory sense Mrs. Kays realanger. However the actor playing Mrs. Briggs found it difficult toadapt to the alter in character. To help her and the drama out, weused the explorative strategy assembly theatre so w... ...ned herstatus. Mr. Briggs responded by seeming to shrink so there was anapparent change in status.Our final key moment was label by an aside by Mr. Briggs. The finalkey moment shows Mr. Briggs destroying the shoot down af ter the day out. Weshowed him destroying the film as an aside so that the audience knewsomething that the characters didnt Dramatic Irony. There was nodialogue during the aside which do it much more effective. The asidealso suggested that Mr. Briggs didnt change at all and that it wasall an act. It developed the audiences dislike of Briggs as yet more.Mr. Briggs however, regained his status once again as he was the onlycharacter left on stage and he was centre stage so all eyes were onhim.Overall I think our key moments were accurate and the explorativestrategies we used helped us develop our characters and our drama.