Earthquakes in London Project

 I chose this image based on equality. 

Preparation:

                                                                                The images I have chosen are based about the government and the aspects of society.          
 

Image about diversity 

Slide 4 - Narrative, Plot and Character 

• Each minor character is important to the play. Big impact on the plot.
• Older woman - dwells on the past and old people hold on to the memories. 
• They bring colour to the performance based on their actions, words and personalities. 
•  The Mothers - Serious. Seem to be happy caring mother turn out creeper. 
• Liberty - bringing colour to Colin's life

Idea - colours of the characters after Freya's death

Idea - colours of the characters

Slide 5 - Themes 

Broken families 

The topic of dysfunctional is one of the important themes Mike Bartlett has based the play on.   

• In the UK, they are 72,000 dysfunctional families who have no father at home. 
• About one in three children's parents in the UK are either divorced or separated.
• The reason why more issues of broken families come round is that in the UK there are many teenage pregnancies and where couples don't always say together.  More families are getting divided up.

Slide 7 - Brecht 

• Brecht was born on 10^th February 1898 in Augsburg, German Empire.
• He died on 14^th August 1956 in East Berlin, East Germany.

 Bertolt Brecht is a German poet and playwright 

Achievements (Career)

• In 1918, aged 20 Brecht wrote his first play ‘Baal’.  It was the story of an aimless youth involved in several affairs. In 1923, the play was theatrically produced.

•   ‘Drums in the Night’ was his second play he wrote.  It was written between 1918 and 1920 but, produced in 1922 before his first play (‘Baal’). 

• In 1923, he wrote the script for a comic, slapstick film ‘Mysteries of a Barbershop.’ Even though it wasn't successful in his time, it later on came to be regarded as one of the most important films in German film history.

•  His play ‘Man Equals Man’ was produced in 1926 which explored the themes of war and human identity.  In 1928, the musical ‘The Threepenny Opera’ was premièred under collaboration between Brecht, Kurt Weill and Caspar Neher.

•      In 1930, Brecht’s play ‘Rise and fall of the City of Mahogany’, a political satire opera, composed by Kurt Weill was performed.  In the year 1932, he wrote the script for ‘Kuhle Wampe’ which is a German film dealing with issues of unemployment and left wing politics.

•  His play ‘Life of Galileo’ was written between 1937 and 1939 but, was only produced theatrically till the middle of 1940’s.  It was a historical drama concerning the later years of the Italian philosopher and scientist, Galileo Galilei.

•  ‘The Threepenny Opera’ is a musical that premièred in 1928 which had been translated into 18 languages and performed more than 10,000 times across Europe by 1933.

 Award – achievement

•   He was awarded the prestigious Kleist Prize in 1922 for his first three plays ‘Baal’, ‘Drums in the Night’, and ‘In the Jungle.

      Slide 9 - Social Political, Content and context introduction

•  Equality Act was created in 1970 introduced by UK Parliament as they wanted to address discrimination. All these acts, failed to meet gender equality. 
• However, in 2010 UK Parliament passed the Equality Act.  It's been growing stronger and they have done away with the old opportunity laws and made a more encompassing law. 
• This one act is to ensure that all people in the UK are treated equally. 

Slide 10 - Politics 

• Chris Huhne was minister for secretary of state for energy and climate change in 2010.
• He came across as an manipulative person especially when he got his wife to take the blame of a motoring offence. This meant the points were added to her licence. 
• Huhne became a member of the Liberal Democrats' key negotiating team to arrange the agreement with the conservatives to form a coalition government.
• The relevance of persuading people to be environmentally friendly is still as importance today as it was in the time of the play.
• Chris Huhne reminds me of Robert as they both are championing the cause to 'save the planet'. 
• On a news report on the TV on Friday 5th March 2010, the Earth is warming up due to burning fossil fuels. 
• Only recently, lots of countries have got together and come to an agreement to reduce their emissions.  It's taken 6 years to agree the way forward.
• The ice capes our melting and the polar bears habitat's are disappearing that would still be recognised today as it's still relevant because it's getting worse.  (Man in polar bear scene also Robert and Steve's scene talking how Steve likes the simple things).