Alan Bennetts Talking Heads inspired my initial idea. :: Drama

Alan Bennetts Talking Heads inspired my initial paper.DRAMA PRACTICAL===============Our group comprised of Jennifer Harney, Jamie Hollaway, AntoniaForsyth, Nick Hudson and myself.Alan Bennetts Talking Heads inspired my initial idea. I hadimagined both seats on stage with two people portraying an unusualevent. The other actors would then act out the narrated story. Howeverthis was not met with great enthusiasm and so was immediatelydismissed. Our second idea was more stimulating. We came up with theidea of a failing band who were looking for new talent a la Thecommitment, and were holding auditions. Jenny was immediately interpretedwith the idea and imagined herself portraying the role of director. Wesoon had discussed this idea to death and were no longer inspired byit but dreaded the thought of how we would bring it to the stage..The suppress of the lesson arrived and we realised we had done nothing buttalk and had rubbished all the ideas we had come up with. We repeatedthe secon d lesson in the same way, however it was a small(a) moreproductive. We moved from the idea of a failing band to an actress whowas finding it tough being at the top. However two problems soonemerged. The first was that we were advance up with fantastic ideasthat would obviously only work on film, and not on the stage. Thesecond was the lack of insight and excitement for all the characters,other than the head teacher herself, leaving everyone else feeling worthlessand unimportant the group was starting to split- this was turninginto a disaster. We were able to salvage this by the lifeline providedby Nick. Although his idea as well as contained many problems that needed tobe discussed, we were able to recover the fading spirit of the group.During the third lesson we became worried that we not getting anywherefast, so we decided to dislodge our approach. We remembered that inearlier workshops, when we had been stuck for inspiration, we wrotedown random words and then just improvise d based around the chosenword. The first to be used was squash, after the second attempt I wasreminded of the metaphor When life gives you lemons make lemonade.Although this was a slight deviation from squash, nevertheless thegroup was inspired ands so we spent twenty minutes discussing theidea. We then realised our idea had, once again, dragged us back intothe fatal area of discussion, which we were trying to avoidThe fourth lesson we returned we asked for the help of our teacher(Mrs. Curtis)- we were sensitive of the other groups developments, and