After taking to reading the entire play with the whole class, I was given the chance to individually and with rest of the cast, form some initial ideas and feelings surrounding the play.
Throughout the play there are very prominent themes of science, religion and the contrasting beliefs and ideas shown by the two society's presented in the play. Both the shipwrecked English characters and the members of the nation are presented clearly to come from two completely different cultures and walks of life, with one holding the believes that development and progress will bring them a better way of life and the other seen to be very stuck in their ways, only to follow rituals and beliefs left by their ancestors. Many similarity's where mentioned and drawn upon in comparison, such as the story's of Pocahontas and Eldorado. This creating a clearer image of what exactly we where about to embark on.It was also at this point we realised how much work we had to do in so little time.
The script included a large amount of physicality and scenes full of action, knowing that we where going to be working as an ensemble, it would mean that unless we where all able to bring our own creativity and personal input we would find this project very difficult. However, although presented with some barriers we would have to overcome, this fast pace, high energy play we had been given, if done well looked as if would be a lot of fun.
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