Mr Kelly 7th November Jason And The Golden Fleece

Today, when everyone turned up, Mr kelly arranged us into 3 seperate groups, each group told a different part of the story 'Jason and the golden fleece', we done this so we could decide which part of the story would appeal more to our target audience. Personally i think my group had the best part of the story where, Jason travels to Cyzicus, This specific part of the story involves alot of adventure and fighting parts, we also came up with alot of comedy ideas, we are hoping to perform to year 7's, at this age, fighting and adventure is really cool. I came up with a really good idea, where in the fight scene, we could place crash mats on the floor, so during the fight people could be thrown from the stage. I feel that this will be really appealing to the young year group we are performing to and will help them to stay engaged.

Toby, me and meg, performed the part in Jason and the Golden Fleece, where Jason and his group travel to Cyzicus the king of the island mentions a premise land beyond Bear mountain, that holds alot of fresh fruit and water. However what isn't mentioned is what lives beyond Bear mountain. So half of Jasons crew stay with the boat, and the other half, including Jason, travel to the premise land, unfortunately, the crd were not told about the 6 armed monsters that roam the island, and the crew near the boat came under attack. Jason and the others return and kill the remaining monsters. They set sail as soon as they can, to get away from the island but loose their bearings out at sea, and the boat mysteriously returns back to the land of Cyzicus, As it was night time, Jason and his crew were mistaken by the villagers of the island as enemies, and were attacked, the villagers lost the battle, soon after the king of the island was killed by Jason, on hearing this the kings wife, (the queen) committed suicide.

I really enjoyed the other groups pieces, they had some great ideas using physical theatre e.g, however not everyone had a good role in it, for example there were a few main characters, the others weren't involved much, whereas in our piece, everyone was used equally, in all parts. The only real main part is Jason. I feel that if we come up with dialogue for our piece, it will be easier understood by the audience, because they are only around 11 years old, they may not grasp the main storyline and would get easily lost, this is why adding dialogue with aspects of comedy, will keep the audience focused on the storyline and engaged through the performance.