Devising: day 9

Today, still focusing on the stimulus of war, we watched a live action play base on the black gang watch. A group a Scottish soldiers sent to Iraq for  the war against terrorism. The idea of this was to see how language is used and to give us a real representation into the reality of war and how dialogue is used. I felt that the piece was the most accurate representation of war in terms of the conversations, which were full of swear words and slang, as you'd expect a group of lads to say.

Afterwards, we undertook a focus exercise to enable us to write a letter home to a loved one, before going over the top in World War One. I found this difficult as I didn't really know what to say. I wanted to make my letter as moving as possible, so by making it blunt and as honest as possible, I thought it would help me achieve this effect.