Evaluative Phase â€Love and hate :: Drama

Evaluative Phase –Love and hate First we looked at the poem â€Å"Stop the clocks† by W.H. Auden. Before we thought about adding hate we thought about what the poem is about. It’s about a woman who’s husband has just died and how she is devastated about his death and thinks the whole world should mourn his death because he was so great (or at least he was to her). So we now had 2 characters the husband and wife and we knew the husband was going to die, which would devastate the woman so much that she wrote the poem. Next we looked at the word ‘hate’ and its implications. Everyone in the group had to say one thing they hated. Then we all went into small groups (about 3 people) and had to make a still image of some form of hate. We chose to do an image of a person being executed by terrorists. Then as a whole group we thought about how we could add hate to the poem. So we thought that the man could have been killed because he had been hated, then it developed further and we thought the woman could have killed the man then she wrote the poem as a cover up. We decided to make the man rich and the woman a gold digger. When we went into smaller groups we had the idea that the man pretended to be rich and the woman killed him when she discovered the truth. Everyone in my group (including me) probably didn’t work together as well as we could have done when we where initially thinking up what to do in our piece. Basically after we had the idea of having the woman find out the man is not rich our progress slowed down quite a lot until the last 20 minutes we had before performing, this made us rush quite a lot so we didn’t iron out all of the mistakes and get everything exactly right like we could have done, but overall our performance was ok and it was quite a good idea. Love and hate are both extremely powerful emotions. Both can cause people to do absolutely crazy things that they almost certainly wouldn’t do for any other reason.