PAPA Tango

On Tuesday 2nd October we had a new project to do with Sharon at first I thought we were going to complete Medea however instead we did a completely different thing. We were told that we were eventually going to work with a company called PAPAtango, this was a company that offered us the chance to create our own 1 act play which was a really thrilling experience and that wasn't just it, to continue our play was going to published and we would have real professional actors come in and perform it to us where we could direct them as well to give us the opportunity to become a director/script writer. In the beginning Sharon told us to get into groups so we separated our selves into groups of 3 or 4, in the end my group was Me, Lucky, Sebastian and Pedro, to continue we then came up with our own company name and we all decided on L.S.P.D which was basically our initials but then we went with it because it standard for London Special Performance Department. After we completed that we had a sheet where we could create our own character so knowing me I wanted to create a character based on a sociopath called Ace who was a 16 yr old boy that had a lot of problems in life and a troubled past however when we told each other the different characters and how it fit into the play my character didn't make a lot of sense so I had to change it, I made a lot of changes to my character again and again. First time I made my character Ace to be the son of Brandon the business (Pedro's character) but when we had the whole general idea that all we wanted was money except for me, I changed my character so much that he was instead an assassin who worked for Brandon and wanted him dead. By the end of the lesson we told each other to come up with scenes for it however none of us could decide so we came up with ideas where our play was going to be set in a dark room and we needed to get money.

Wednesday 3rd October- A woman by the name of Karis Halsall from the PAPAtango company came in and she taught us about writing a script. She said that a script has around 5 scenes Exposition, Build up, Climax, Consequences and finally Resolution, from that we were able to get a better view on what to base each scene upon and how we can infuse our idea into them.

Our final idea altogether was based upon each idea everyone in the group had, this was Lucas gets kidnapped by Brandon who is then taken to a dark room where he meets other clients of Brandon and they need to figure out a way of escaping the room before they all die as Brandon injected them with a serum/poison that kills them within an allotted time. The play involves violence and informal language due to the characters getting angry all the time especially the character I created Ace who is an assassin that has a bit of a temper and has hatred towards everyone.

On the Wednesday 16th November- Karis came in again, however this time she brought in 3 actors that work with PAPA tango, we were told that they were going to perform our pieces for us to see but first we got the chance to direct them like professional directors, we had a lot of fun telling them what to do although there wasn't much to tell them except for staging because they did an excellent job at making our plays come to life. When we saw our final piece being performed it was better than expected and everyone loved it. Finally we were given a book that we created I thought it was an honour working with them to see what we accomplished as a group.