best is yet to come.

My AS Theatre Studies class, took part in the Young Theatres Project at West Yorkshire Playhouse.We had just under two weeks to devise a piece centred on the idea of dreams,  ambitions ,aspirations and success. Other schools took part too and it was interesting to see how our ideas developed from 4 little words. Each group had a professional theatre practitioner who specialised in a type of theatre E.g musical theatre. My drama class got a South African physical theatre practitioner called Lucy, A.k.a Lovely Lucy for she was loverly and it was her catchphrase along with the word 'Brillaint!'.She is from the very lively theatre group Slung Low and her crazy ideas helped to craft our piece, turning out wonderful.

The basic principle of our piece was based on the idea that when you were younger you had these beautiful aspirations that were almost impossible to achieve but you still thought I will be that when I'm older. There's also a sense of realisation in the piece that as you get older your once favoured dream become's lost to society's norms of how you should aspire have a sensible career like being a doctor (or an accountant if you have the will power!). Therefore we had to think back to what we all wanted to be when we were little nippers.I was a typical child,aspiring and seeing myself in every job underneath the sun.The one that stands out for its absolute absurdity was wanting to become a wrestler.You read it right alright! Me, a person who couldn't hurt a fly,wanted to be a wrestler! It makes me laugh now but then I was deadly serious.

One idea that was used in the piece was to map out your morning routine before you leave the house in a walk.As we figured out our own individual paths we did it at the same time and it almost looked like we were individuals walking down down a busy high street,each with our own focused (sometimes interrupted if we bumped into someone) career paths.Setting it to the song Rain drops keep falling on my head by Burt Bacharach,then the gate of our walks becomes much more springy and full of positive energy.As if we were children again,thinking we could be whatever we wanted to be.

If you think that's deep and an abstract way of  thinking, then I won't go into what else we did but I do hope that this has given you a flavour of what we performed.Well if my Grandma Dot got it,then I'm sure you would!