Emotionally Connecting the Audience to a character

Also known as Actor sympathy, this is a psychological process wherebe the audience experiences the same emotions and feelings as the characters who they're idendifying with. When you can capture audience sympathy for your characters, you will hook them into your story. This is called, "Identification."

One of the first goals of a devised piece is to get the audience involved in the story by creating a bond between themselves and the characters. After you have captured the hearts of the audience, your goal is to elicit emotions in them by showing your characters experiencing emotions. If the audience has no sympathy for the hero, then the story will be flat.

In our case, we need the audience to feel sympathetic to Kyle and Ellie, we had the idea that after Kyle bumps into Ellie, she is brought back to the gangs den (headquarters), however all the other members of the gang hate Ellie,because kyle is focusing more on her than the actual Gangs tasks and operations. So the members get a bit annoyed and send Kyle to do a misson on his own, however kyle is blind to the fact that the other members dislike Ellie,and while he is gone, the gang, rape and abuse Ellie and kick her out onto the street, then when kyle (A slightly weak member) returns, the gang lie and say she left,leaving Kyle devastated, this will be a great way to get the audience to have a connection with the two characters, we need to in a way show Kyle and Ellie to be madly inlove, this will then get the audience to imagine themselfs in the play being in them characters shoes.

This will enable the audience to feel really sorry for the characters, which is what we want because we want the Audience to emotionally connect with them